Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.92

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Released February 17, 2016 (see all changes here)

• changed to use a user agent string when making web requests (now required by Comic Vine).
• changed to use new comicvine.gamespot.com domain name.

This version of the scraper fixes a severe bug that blocks all access to the Comic Vine database!

Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.91

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Released November 28, 2015 (see all changes here)

• throttled all requests to the Comic Vine API so they occur once every 1.25 seconds.
• updated package metadata in ComicRack

For more details about the need to throttle request rates, please see issue 422 and here.

Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.90

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Released October 17, 2015 (see all changes here)

• removed all code that scrapes Comic Vine website HTML pages directly (issue 421).
• this means the scraper no longer has access to any alternate covers for each issue, nor can it scrape community ratings anymore.
• because alternative covers are no longer available, the "Try to choose the correct series automatically" feature does not succeed as often as it used to.

For more details about why these changes were made, please see issue 421 and here.

Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.89

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Released June 22, 2015 (see all changes here)

• fixed a problem where the scraper could fail to automatically identify comics when the IGNORE_SEARCHTERM advanced setting was used (see issue 413)

Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.88

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Released June 14, 2015 (see all changes here)

• fixed problem where scraper crashed on issue 0 of any series (see issue 411)

Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.87

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Released June 13, 2015 (see all changes here)

• fixed problem where some books with leading zeroes didn't display the right cover (see issue 403)
• added << and >> buttons to main comic dialog, so you can jump to the first or last page quickly (see issue 405)
• the SCRAPE_DELAY, when used, is no longer applied to any manual lookups that are required at the end of the scraping session (see issue 409)

Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.86

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Released November 11, 2014.

• fixed problem where scraper couldn't understand filenames that use hyphens instead of spaces (see issue 399)
• improved handling of filenames with leading story arc numbers i.e. this kind of filename, which is quite common: 001 The Zero-Men #132.cbr (see issue 337)
• minor improvements when scraper parses very large issue numbers out of filenames
• these numbers should be confused with years less often (see issues 389 and 395)

Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.85

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Released October 24, 2014.

• fixed the obsolete Comic Vine API link on the "Comic Vine" tab in the Settings dialog (see issue 398)
  minor stability improvements

Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.84

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Released August 1, 2014

• better handling of numbering like "4 of 5" in filenames, when the word 'of' is in non-english languages (see issue 393)
• the term 'ctc' is now ignored by the scraper when it appears in filenames (see issue 381)
• also added the IGNORE_SEARCHTERM advanced setting so users can specify other terms to ignore

Comic Vine Scraper 1.0.83

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Released June 29, 2014.

• improved "SCRAPE_DELAY" implementation (doesn't freeze app now)
• updated all language packs for latest changes