Web Scraping Made Easy
The following are the changes in this version. Enhanced proxy support In this version we have added support for various types of proxies. Earlier, WebHarvy supported only HTTP proxies. Starting from this version the following proxy types are supported. HTTP HTTPS SOCKS4 SOCKS4a SOCKS5 In the proxy settings window you can select the type of … Read more
The following are the main changes in this version. Option to leave a blank row when data is unavailable for a keyword/category/URL In WebHarvy’s Keyword/Category settings page a new option has been added to leave a blank row filled with corresponding keyword/category/URL when data is unavailable for that item. This option is available only when … Read more
This is a major update of WebHarvy. But the number of visible new features added is nil. The main change is that WebHarvy now selects data faster and the accuracy of data fetched during mining has been improved. So WebHarvy now takes lesser time to fetch patterns of data from listing pages. The selection accuracy … Read more
This update contains a major bug fix. The miner window rarely used to go into a hang/freeze state during mining. This happened especially when a larger number of parallel mining threads (> 4) were set in Advanced Miner Options. We have fixed this issue in this release, so that you can mine data with maximum … Read more
WebHarvy 5.5.1.170 brings an important bug fix and also a few other improvements. Bug fix Sometimes, during configuration, while selecting data from starting page (where there are multiple listings), preview gets updated with only a single item, giving the impression that pattern detection failed. This issue is present in the last 2 versions of WebHarvy, … Read more
The following are the main changes (features/improvements) of WebHarvy 5.5 1. Custom User Agent String If you go to WebHarvy Settings > Browser tab, you can enable custom user agent string as shown below. The ‘Enable custom user agent string’ option allows you to specify a user agent string which WebHarvy configuration and mining browsers will use. This option … Read more
What is new in WebHarvy Version 5.4 ? Automatically delete cookies while mining Websites can get details regarding your previous visits using cookies stored locally by the browser. A new Browser Settings option has been added to prevent this. WebHarvy will periodically delete browser cookies during mining when this option is enabled. New pagination method … Read more
You must be aware that the latest updates (1809 and its re-release) released by Microsoft for Windows 10 caused issues for many users. Few of our customers reported application crash while trying to start up WebHarvy with these updates installed. We have solved this issue in the latest update (5.3.0.161) of WebHarvy which you may download … Read more
‘How to increase mining speed ?‘ was one of the most commonly asked questions by our users. With previous versions, the main limitation was that when links had to be followed from the starting page to get each listing details, the miner took more time to scrape a page full of listings. This is because … Read more
Changes in 5.2 are mainly related to user interface and experience. The most visible change is the introduction of the ribbon menu system for providing easy access to most software features. In addition to the main interface, other windows like Scheduler / Export etc. have also been updated. The export functionality (to file or database) has … Read more