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.
Important Note: The tutorials you will find on this blog may become outdated with new versions of the program. We have now added a series of built-in tutorials in the application which are accessible from the Help menu.
You should run these to discover the Hub.
This tutorial was created using version 0.8.2. The Scraper Editor interface has changed a long time ago. Many more features were included and some controls now have a new name. The following can still be a good complement to get acquainted with scrapers. The Sraper Editor can now be found in the ‘Scrapers’ view instead of ‘Source’ but the principle remains funamentally the same.
In many cases the automatic data extraction functions: 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: Create 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.
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…
Important Note: The tutorials you will find on this blog may become outdated with new versions of the program. We have now added a series of built-in tutorials in the application which are accessible from the Help menu.
You should run these to discover the Hub.
While surfing the Web, you may have come across interesting data that you want to use offline. You then faced the tiresome task of copying and pasting all the information row by row, column by column. OutWit Hub‘s “Data” views can automatically 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.
Important Note: The tutorials you will find on this blog may become outdated with new versions of the program. We have now added a series of built-in tutorials in the application which are accessible from the Help menu.
You should run these to discover the Hub.
Have you ever wanted to download all the photos of your favorite star while surfing the Web then faced the tiresome task and given up?
If you have, OutWit Hub is the solution for you.
It downloads pictures automatically from a series of pages with the two buttons below:
– the “Next in Series” button: 
– the “Browse” button: 
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Important Note: The tutorials you will find on this blog may become outdated with new versions of the program. We have now added a series of built-in tutorials in the application which are accessible from the Help menu.
You should run these to discover the Hub.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to download whole collections of pictures with just a few clicks using 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 images and saving them to your computer can be tedious especially if you have to download them one by one. (See also OutWit Images)
With Outwit Hub, you can do this with the simple click of a few buttons.
Important Note: The tutorials you will find on this blog may become outdated with new versions of the program. We have now added a series of built-in tutorials in the application which are accessible from the Help menu.
You should run these to discover the Hub.
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’!