OutWit Hub 2.1.2 updates

by - March 9th, 2012

OutWit Hub for Firefox, as well as Images and Docs have been updated today (2.1.2.14), to work with Firefox 11 as soon as it is released. This update also includes a few interesting optimizations and changes requested by our users.
You can either download the program from the site or ask to check for updates from the Hub help menu.

Updating to the latest version

by - February 16th, 2012

OutWit Hub For Firefox 2.1.1+: When updating from 1.0 to 2.0 then to 2.1 successively, it can happen in some cases that the previous extensions do not unistall properly. In such cases, restarting Firefox usually solves the problem. You can also manually uninstall all outwit extensions and reinstall them from outwit.com. This process will not delete your profile (scrapers, macros etc.) or your registration information.

Notes: If you wish to backup your profile folder anyway (which is never a bad idea). You can locate it by typing “about:support” in the address bar.
Do check in the add-on panel of Firefox (Tools>Add-ons) that the installed outwit extensions are the latest versions: See the version history for OutWit Hub, OutWit Images and OutWit Docs.

OutWit Hub for Firefox 10

by - February 2nd, 2012

OutWit Hub for Firefox 2.1.1.7 is working with all versions of Firefox between 4 and 10. (This update doesn’t concern the standalone application.)

Note: We have also made new builds of the OutWit Kernel v.1.0 and v.2.0 for Firefox 10, for those who do not wish to update OutWit to 2.1 immediately. As the new components for FF10 were just released, some antivirus utilities may not know them yet and display a warning during install.

OutWit Hub Version 2.1 is available

by - February 1st, 2012

We have solved a few remaining glitches and released version 2.1.1.5 this morning. You may see an alert telling you that the previous version has expired. You just need to download the most recent from outwit.com. (Sorry for not making this one automatic, but it will be from now on.)

Sorry for the alert

by - January 31st, 2012

Please excuse the expiration alert you are getting when running the Hub between versions 2.1.0.x and 2.1.1.3. If you are using the firefox add-on, you can update now. For the standalone applications, you will need to download the latest version. Your profile and automators will not be affected.

OutWit Hub 2.0 is online!

by - November 9th, 2011

We have released version 2.0 of OutWit Hub with dozens of new features, dramatically enhanced scrapers and a fun built-in tutorial system. This is a major upgrade both for casual users and data addicts. It can handle very large volumes of data and offers more, simpler ways to build scrapers and apply them discriminately during automatic Web explorations.
I hope you’ll like it. We do.

Version for Aurora (FF7) is ready for download on outwit.com

by - August 13th, 2011

We just uploaded version 1.0.7.23 of OutWit Hub and v.0.3.7.23 of Images and Docs. This is a minor update with a few fixes in scrapers and next page recognition but it does include the latest kernel update for those of you who are using Firefox Aurora.

Beta testing version 1.1

by - July 6th, 2011

We have started limited beta testing of the next version. As it brings enhancements to pro-only features, you need to own a license for OutWit Hub Pro if you wish to test this pre-version. Drop us a line here to receive the link.

Version 1.0.7.10

by - July 6th, 2011

The latest version of OutWit extensions is now compatible with versions 3.6 to 6 of Firefox. You can download it directly from outwit.com. In order to add the new features, we had to discontinue support for Firefox v3.5, as well as for versions of Mac OS before 10.6.

Very large data sets

by - June 13th, 2011

We will soon release v.1.1 of OutWit Hub. This major update includes a complete refactoring of whole parts of the application, particularly for managing and exporting very large datasheets. There are still volume limitations, of course, but they were pushed by a factor of more than 10 in this new version. Depending on the number of columns, the program will now handle extractions of 100,000+ rows of data. (In fact, in the latest tests, we successfully extracted 1.15 million rows straight to the catch, then exported and loaded 1,048,576 of these in Excel, as it seems to be the maximum Excel can handle.)