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✨ New

  • Added ability to scrape details from current list without uploading a CSV
  • Added comprehensive documentation site (you’re looking at it!)

🔔 Changes

  • Modified bundled code to resolve Chrome Web Store warning

✨ New

  • Added “Copy” button to copy table to clipboard

🛠 Fixed

  • Fixed bug where “next page” or “load more” button wouldn’t be clicked if it was outside of the viewport

✨ New

  • Added tip when a list is downloaded to inform users about how to scrape details pages

🛠 Fixed

  • Fixed bug where the maximum wait time was always used when waiting for new items to load rather than until new items appear
  • Fixed bug that prevented selecting elements that are not links or buttons as the “Next page” or “Load more” element

🔔 Changes

  • Updated name of extension to “Easy Scraper — One-click web scraper”

🔔 Changes

  • Made element mask more responsive to scrolling by removing throttle

🛠 Fixed

  • Translated text for instructions when selecting an element

✨ New

  • Added “Max items” option to limit the number of items when scraping a list

🛠 Fixed

  • Prevent field description from being cut-off by the edge of the screen when building a new details scraper
  • Fixed bug where non-Latin word characters were sanitized in filenames
  • Fixed bug where downloaded CSV files were not explicitly encoded as UTF-8, potentially leading to non-Latin characters being garbled if applications opened them as US-ASCII (the default for text MIME types)

🔔 Changes

  • Added warning when URL column name appears to be a URL which may indicate that the header row is missing
  • Generate more reliable text selectors by using only words without numbers if possible
  • Generate a wider variety of selectors to increase stability for details scrapers

🛠 Fixed

  • Fixed bug where newline at end of uploaded CSV resulted in an extra row being displayed in the preview

✨ New

  • Added localization for all languages

🔔 Changes

  • Remove restriction on Google Maps

🔔 Changes

  • Increased usage condition to trigger rate alert

✨ New

  • Added localization for Chinese

🛠 Fixed

  • Fixed bug where links without href were missing from scraped data

🛠 Fixed

  • Fixed bug where next page was not detected for some client-side navigation (e.g. houzz.com)
No changes: Used to change name of extension
No changes: Used for submitting a separate beta build

🔔 Changes

  • Help button moved to navigation bar

🔔 Changes

  • Added overlay when recordings a details page scraper

🛠 Fixed

  • Fixed bug where incorrect error message was shown when extension is opened while navigating
  • Fixed bug where list data was cleared after navigating to details tab
  • Fixed bug where details scraper data was not automatically cleared after changing scrapers
  • Fixed bug where list wasn’t highlighted when extension is opened

✨ New

  • Details Scrapers! 🎉
    • Upload a CSV of URLs and scrape each page

🔔 Changes

  • Added timestamp to downloaded filenames

🛠 Fixed

  • Fixed bug where error was shown when extension was opened while page is loading
  • Fixed bug where element mask lagged when scrolling
  • Fixed bug where element mask didn’t update when window is resized
  • Fixed bug where element mask disappeared after scrolling a lot

✨ New

  • Spinner is shown on page while scraping
  • Warning is shown when trying to close popup while scraping

🛠 Fixed

  • Fixed bug where no data was loaded after reloading popup

🛠 Fixed

  • Fixed bug where extension sometimes crashed when resizing a column
  • Fixed bug where next page cannot be scraped after service worker goes inactive
  • Fixed bug where page is not cleaned up when closing popup after service worker goes inactive

🔔 Changes

  • Updated heuristic for selecting a list when the extension is opened

🛠 Fixed

  • Fixed delay when selecting an element due to slow selector generation

🔔 Changes

  • Increased minimum wait time from 1 second to 2 seconds when clicking link to next page for better reliability (e.g. scraping yelp.com)

🛠 Fixed

  • Fixed bug where instructions to select element showed up with bad styles due to host page
  • Fixed bug where extension crashed when scraping a field with a CSS class that included a period
  • Fixed bug where extension crashed when resizing a column while scraping lots of data

✨ New

  • Initial release! 🎉