This update includes a complete refactoring of the Kernel and a new user interface where tabs are replaced by a hierarchical list of views.
New side panel
The new improvements of this version are listed here.
In many cases automatic data extraction views (tables, lists, guess) will be enough, and you will manage to extract and export the data in just a few clicks.
If, however, the page is too complex, or if your needs are more specific, there is a way to extract data manually: creating your own scraper.
Scrapers will be saved to your personal database and you will be able to re-apply them on the same URL or on other URLs starting, for instance, with the same domain name.
A scraper can even be applied to whole lists of URLs.
You can also export your scrapers and share them with other users.
Here, let’s get acquainted with this feature by creating a simple one.
The Firefox 3 version was released yesterday. It can be downloaded here.
It includes a number of fixes and enhancements: Drag and drop of text, links and images to the catch, autocompletion in address bar, enhanced application of scrapers, better tree behavior, enhanced image extraction process (more high resolution images are found by the ‘images’ widget and the slideshow), enhanced navigation link recognition…
While surfing the Web, you may already have found interesting data you wanted to take offline. You probably then faced the tiresome task of copying and pasting all the information row by row, column by column. OutWit’s “data” views do this for you.
In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to grab structured data from a Web page with the “table” view and export it to an Excel spreadsheet.
Have you ever wanted to download all the photos of your favorite star while surfing on the Web, faced the tiresome work and finally given up? I’m talking about all the scrolling down pages and the clicking around, to save the pictures one by one.
If you have, OutWit Hub is the solution for you.
It downloads pictures automatically from a series of pages with two buttons we are going to see here:
- the “Next in series” button: 
- the “Browse” button: 
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In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to download whole collections of pictures in just a few clicks with OutWit Hub.
If you have ever surfed the Web in search of images to illustrate a presentation, get photos of your favorite stars or simply cool desktop backgrounds, you know that collecting large series of pictures and saving them to your computer may be tedious, if you have to download them one by one.
With Outwit Hub, you can do this in very few clicks.
Here is an introduction tutorial which will help you get acquainted with Outwit Hub in minutes. In this first guide, you will mostly learn the function of the main navigation and collection controls to be found in the Hub’s interface.
The summer is going to be busy: FF3 version, OutWit Images, API documentation, online help, and many tutorials! In the meantime, some of our users are very efficient, already producing their own tutorials (if you read French, see Ezratty’s review and tutorials for image collection and data collection).
OutWit Hub beta 1 is online.This build (OutWit Kernel 0.7.0.183 & OutWit Hub 0.5.0.33) includes all the base features and fixes the major bugs after the last period of Alpha testing. We sincerely hope you will enjoy it. Please give us your feedback.
Today, it’s raining Haribo gummy bears in the office… Version 0.7.0 alpha 11 is officially named ‘beta 1 rc1′!