Notes:
The official 0.4.* release - the other 0.4.*s where release candidates.
Finally it is possible to use FireWatir as the agent for navigation, enabling AJAX/more robust scraping via Firefox.
Another big news is that the RubyInline, ParseTree and Ruby2Ruby dependency was dropped since we couldn't solve this problem for win32 for one year.
Of course a lot of bugs were fixed as well!
Changes:
- [NEW] possibility to use FireWatir as the agent for scraping (credit: Glenn Gillen, Glen Gillen and... did I mention Glenn already?)
- [FIX] navigation doesn't crash if a 404/500 is returned (credit: Glen Gillen)
- [NEW] navigation action: click_by_xpath to click arbitrary elements
- [MOD] dropped dependencies: RubyInline, ParseTree, Ruby2Ruby (hooray for win32 users)
- [NEW] scraping through frames (e.g. google analytics)
- [MOD] exporting temporarily doesn't work - for now, generated XPaths are printed to the screen
- [MOD] possibility to wait after clicking link/filling textfield (to be able to scrape inserted AJAX stuff)
- [NEW] possibility to fetch from a string, by specifying nil as the url and the html string with the :html option
- [FIX] firewatir slowness (credit: jak4)
- [FIX] lot of bugfixes and stability fixes
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