by jcc - September 8th, 2020
We generally put automatic updates online every other month, but we upload the latest builds for download much more frequently. If you wish to force the update of an OutWit application, simply load this page in OutWit Hub or Sourcer and click on the corresponding link below from within your v.9.x OutWit application:
OutWit Hub
Email Sourcer
DO NOT CHANGE THE MENU.
It must say “Update for Standalone or add-on for Firefox…”.
Just click on “I accept.”
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(if you are already running v9.x)
by jcc - August 22nd, 2020
The release date of v9 has been set to Aug. 24th. You will find an overview of the main recent additions here.
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by jcc - March 25th, 2017
OutWit Hub now comes in three different editions: Pro, Expert and Enterprise
Pro contains all the base features to explore and scrape data from Websites. The Expert Edition is made for fast, high-volume extractions, complex cases requiring advanced directives or server script automation etc.. Finally, the Enterprise Edition is designed for high volume, multiple instance or multi-user work.
Each higher license level includes all features of the lower ones.
The new Expert edition is limited to a single user but includes the advanced features that were previously reserved to the Enterprise edition.
Enterprise edition v6.0 includes a 3-user license and allows to share a set of automators between different users and to store navigation stacks in a database instead of the RAM for very large explorations.
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by jcc - November 15th, 2016
FTP upload was added to OutWit Hub Enterprise in version 5.0 and enhanced in subsequent builds. The feature must be set at the macro level. We are currently addressing this in the new features for v6.0 so that the function can be used from the Export preview panel to upload to server(s) set in the Preferences. Don’t hesitate to suggest other FTP upload functions you might need, while we are at it.
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by jcc - January 2nd, 2016
You can download the new versions from outwit.com. We will be waiting for version 5.0.1 before initiating a general update, as a few more features must still be added to the kernel, but we believe you will like the long-awaited features that this version brings: multiple-criteria selections in the datasheets, ftp upload of extracted data, ‘Find Selection in Source’ right-clicking on the page…
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by jcc - November 29th, 2015
We have started the testing phase or v5.0. We haven’t had enough time to include all the features we had planned, so more goodies will come with v5.0.1. This version, however, brings a collection of functions that many users were waiting for (from a way to show items in the page and find them in the source code, to multiple-criteria selections in the datasheets). Several additional advanced directives allow to click automatically on objects or series of objects, populate queries from scrapers or compare links to explore with query directories, to decide which to skip or which to add, etc.
With this release, we simplified the version numbering system: All OutWit products based on Kernel 5+ will share the Kernel version number: Images, Docs, Sourcer and the Hub will all be 5.x
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by jcc - August 24th, 2015
Mozilla has decided that, from now on, all Firefox add-ons have to be reviewed and signed by them.
OutWit Hub, however, is no small widget. With more than 250k lines of code and 30 man-years of development effort, we have built a very powerful tool with extremely advanced Web exploration features. Their new review requirements and constraints do not match ours or the very purpose of the OutWit tools. Unfortunately we are not the only add-on developers in this situation and, like many others, because of this and Mozilla’s decision to fade out the XUL framework support, we will have to discontinue support of Firefox after version 42.
The simplest for you is to use the standalone versions of our products, but if you still wish to install our Firefox add-ons, you can either get an old version of Firefox (42.0) or allow www.outwit.com in the security preferences of Firefox and deactivate the signing requirement:
Type about:config in the address bar and change the preference named xpinstall.signatures.required to false.
…then answer yes to all alerts asking whether you really, really, really want to install it.
We are very sorry for this inconvenience.
[UPDATE] after version 44, the above preference will cease to function. The only option will then be to use an old version of Firefox or one of the special editions. Here is what Mozilla says on the topic: “The Developer Edition and Nightly versions of Firefox will have a setting to disable signature enforcement. There will also be special unbranded versions of Release and Beta that will have this setting, so that add-on developers can work on their add-ons without having to sign every build. To disable signature checks, you will need to set the xpinstall.signatures.required preference to ‘false’.”
[UPDATE] One of our users reported that this maintained and up-to-date version of Firefox does allow to use OutWit extensions. (Thanks.)
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by jcc - May 11th, 2015
We are very grateful for your help enhancing our products. Each report obviously helps us correct problems but, more importantly, through your feedback, you are constantly keeping us on tracks to make the application simpler, more pertinent and more powerful. Help us help you: to avoid going back and forth, trying to isolate the core information, this page lists the most frequent things we ask in return to our users’ messages. It has proved very useful and we’ll keep updating it.
Summary
Please…
– Always indicate platform, system and OutWit version number.
– Export & attach scraper or macro. No screenshots of scrapers, please!
– Keep descriptions short. Give a simple and specific example.
– Do not crop screenshots. Take the whole screen.
– If you have updated recently, indicate previous version number.
– READ THE FAQ in the Help menu of the application
(Install and Troubleshooting, in particular).
Support is done by the developers themselves: they need to know your needs to make the application a better tool. Unfortunately their time is limited so, please do not write very long descriptions of processes or expect them to analyze the structure of a website. If this is what you need, read how we can create custom scrapers for you here.
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by jcc - April 11th, 2015
If you want to use OutWit Hub or any or our programs with the Tor browser, you can simply browse to outwit.com with Tor, click on the download link and select the Firefox add-on version in the version menu (bottom item). That’s it.
[Update] Tor 6.0 is now based on Firefox 45. Which means that it has the same signature restrictions and cannot run OutWit extensions. At this point, the only solution is to use Tor Browser 5.5.5.
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by jcc - February 11th, 2015
You may be installing a build of our program that was signed for a previous OS X version. In this case, once downloaded, double-click on the .dmg file, drag the program to your applications folder. In order to run it, simply ctrl-click on the OutWit application icon and choose open in the contextual menu, then click on open once again.
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