Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.102

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This release fixes a long standing bug where the scraper was unable to see the alternate covers available on the ComicVine database. See here. Many thanks to user giotte for providing this fix.

Released March 1, 2024 (see all changes here)

Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.101

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This release fixes another problem where Comic Vine Scraper can no longer "talk" to the Comic Vine website, due to some changes that Comic Vine made. See here.

Released November 3, 2021 (see all changes here)

Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.100

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This release fixes a problem where Comic Vine Scraper can no longer "talk" to the Comic Vine website, due to some changes that Comic Vine made. See here. Also, few more imprints, courtesy of CuddleBear92.

Released February 29, 2020 (see all changes here))

Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.99

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This is a maintenance release to update the scraper's TLS protocol to v1.2 so that it works with the Comic Vine API's newly updated SSL requirements. Thanks to user namanix for tracking down the problem and providing a patch.

Released Sept 10, 2019 (see all changes here)

Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.98

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This is a maintenance release to give the scraper a larger list of publishers & imprints, provided by user CuddleBear92, see here ("Added more publishers and imprints and sorted the list alphabetically").

Released June 20, 2019 (see all changes here))

Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.97

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This is a maintenance release that address issue #406 (too many results being returned by series search).

Released Jan 4, 2019 (see all changes here))

-to address issue 406, a new advanced setting called MAX_SEARCH_REQUESTS was added.
-most users will not have to modify this setting.

Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.96

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This is a maintenance release that makes the scraper's searches work better with Comic Vine's latest search API.

Released July 16, 2018 (see all changes here).

Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.95

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This is a maintenance release that fixes a few minor bugs.

Released Feb 17, 2018 (see all changes here)

• fixed issue searching for comics with 'vs' in the title.
• scraper now includes the release 'day' in scraped metadata, where possible (instead of just 'month' and 'year'.)
• the 'Direct URL' search feature works better now: you can paste the full URL of a Comic Vine volume OR issue into the search dialog to 'short circuit' the search and force the scraper to find the series that you are looking for.

Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.94

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Released Feb 9, 2018 (see all changes here)

• fixed issues related to new search engine in the Comic Vine API.
• stripped "Cover Listing" table out of scraped summary text.

This release is mainly to bring Comic Vine Scraper back in line with Comic Vine's new search engine.

Thanks to Xelloss for looking into problems with the new search, and advising on the needed fix!

Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.93

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Released July 18, 2016 (see all changes here)

• changed to use a user agent string when making image requests (now required by Comic Vine).
• improved parsing of filenames containing phrases like "cover xx of yy"

This release updates Comic Vine Scraper to provide a user agent string when requesting comic issue/series images from Comic Vine. This is a new requirement imposed by Comic Vine that breaks all previous versions of the scraper.

Thanks to ScuttleSE and RogueBurger for contributing these fixes!