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Cory Banack edited this page Jun 14, 2015 · 18 revisions

Note: there is no automatic updater for Comic Vine Scraper. New downloadable releases are announced on this RSS feed and in this forum thread.


ComicVineScraper-1.0.87.plugin

  • 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)

ComicVineScraper-1.0.86.plugin

  • 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)

ComicVineScraper-1.0.85.plugin

  • 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

ComicVineScraper-1.0.84.plugin

  • 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

ComicVineScraper-1.0.83.plugin

  • released June 29, 2014
  • improved "SCRAPE_DELAY" implementation (doesn't freeze app now)
  • updated all language packs for latest changes

ComicVineScraper-1.0.82.plugin

  • released June 23, 2014
  • added "SCRAPE_DELAY" advanced setting

ComicVineScraper-1.0.81.plugin

  • released June 11, 2014
  • fixed bug where your settings got lost when you updated the plugin

ComicVineScraper-1.0.80.plugin

  • released June 11, 2014
  • all text fields now have Copy/Cut/Paste when you right click
  • scraper settings have been moved to windows settings directory so they don't get lost if there's an error updating the plugin
  • fixed plugin to report # of skipped/scraped comics, even when an error occurs while scraping.
  • minor bug fixes

ComicVineScraper-1.0.79.plugin

  • released June 10, 2014
  • all users are now required to provide their own Comic Vine API key
  • added "Comic Vine" tab to settings dialog
  • better error messages when Comic Vine rate limits are reached (see issue 382)
  • better error handling; something goes wrong, don't keep retrying forever
  • minor database query throttling, to ease the load on Comic Vine's database
  • minor efficiency improvements, less accesses to Comic Vine's database

ComicVineScraper-1.0.77.plugin

  • released April 6, 2014
  • fixes issue 368
  • uses new API key to access Comic Vine
  • you can specify your own API key in Advanced Settings

ComicVineScraper-1.0.76.plugin

  • released March 23, 2014
  • fixes issue 364

ComicVineScraper-1.0.75.plugin

  • released March 17, 2014
  • fixes issues 363 and 347

ComicVineScraper-1.0.74.plugin

  • released March 11, 2014
  • works with latest changes to ComicVine API

ComicVineScraper-1.0.73.plugin

  • checks "comicvine_volume" field when trying to guess series

ComicVineScraper-1.0.72.plugin

  • added new Dutch/Netherlands (nl-NL) language pack

ComicVineScraper-1.0.71.plugin

  • fix for issue 349

ComicVineScraper-1.0.70.plugin

  • fix for issue 342

ComicVineScraper-1.0.69.plugin

  • updated missing Polish translations
  • fixes for issue 329 and issue 334

ComicVineScraper-1.0.68.plugin

  • fix for issue 327

ComicVineScraper-1.0.67.plugin

  • added automatic scraping (via issue cover matching)
  • added "confirm each issue before proceeding" option
  • scraper now populates custom comic book fields: comicvine_issue, and comicvine_volume
  • scraper no longer adds scraped date when putting CVDB tag into comments
  • updates to all language packs except Polish
  • fixes for issues 322, 323, and 325