Web Scraping Made Easy
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
WebHarvy Settings involves various options which you can set for Miner, Browser, Proxies, Category/Keyword and Images. We have created the following video which explains the various settings and how each of them can affect the mining performance/consistency and provide additional functionality. Please contact our support if you have any questions.
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
You can use Google Translate to translate a web page to another language and then use WebHarvy to scrape the translated content. For this, you will first need to translate the page using Google Translate’s web interface, find the translated page frame URL and then load it within WebHarvy. The video below demonstrates the process. … 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
You must be aware that Microsoft has pulled back Windows 10 October 2018 update due to issues faced by several users. Mainly, the update resulted in missing files and many store apps including Microsoft’s own Edge browser stopped working. Few of our customers faced problems (application crash) while trying to run WebHarvy after installing this update. … 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
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