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Blue Crab Changelog

What's new in Blue Crab 5.1.2

Jan 13, 2016
  • Update for Mac OS 10.11
  • Fixed a bug opening the download directory from the grabber window (the 'Reveal' button), and similar problems with other convenience functions that open folders or files.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the opening of the log file from the File menu, and similar problems with other instances for opening certain files.

New in Blue Crab 5.1.1 (Feb 6, 2015)

  • Help menu link to the website and tour has been fixed.

New in Blue Crab 5.1 (Jan 23, 2015)

  • For document searching: updated the Spotlight indexer to support 64-bit Spotlight word extractors, which in particular fixes an issue with extracting words to create indexes of RTF files.
  • Removed the 2000 word limit on the number of words extracted. Previously an index would contain a maximum of 2000 unique words, now it includes as many as there are in the document.

New in Blue Crab 5.0.09 (Jan 6, 2015)

  • Removed deprecated system functions.

New in Blue Crab 5.0.08 (Nov 6, 2014)

  • The "Browse" button in the grabber windows were not working properly.

New in Blue Crab 5.0.07 (Nov 15, 2013)

  • Mavericks Update

New in Blue Crab 5.0.06 (Apr 18, 2012)

  • Fixed a bug in Lion where the mail server password in Server Settings was not always loaded due to a problem reading the Keychain Access record. This bug affected the mail notification and batch authentication features, which require keychain access.
  • The "classic" grabber window sports a new progress indicator that mimics the app's dock tile progress indicator.

New in Blue Crab 5.0.05 (Sep 7, 2011)

  • The "classic" grabber window's networking has been modernized to improve downloads, and simplified for ease of use by modelling it on the quicker grabber. The log pane has been simplified with each log entry containing: current URL, date and time and the complete server response for each request. It also sports a new progress indicator that mimics the app's dock tile progress indicator.
  • The built-in aggregator has been extended. It now supports aggregating files by modification date. This is done as follows: First the files are organized into folders according to the year, into "year folders," then the files for each year are aggregated by month and day into subfolders of each year folder.
  • There is a new menu item titled "Aggregate a Folder by Modification Date…" and the older menu item has been renamed to "Aggregate a Folder by extension…" The aggregator also now displays a progress window while it is working, because date aggregation can take a while to complete.

New in Blue Crab 5.0.04 (Aug 29, 2011)

  • The "classic" grabber window's networking has been modernized to improve downloads, and simplified for ease of use by modelling it on the quicker grabber. The log pane has been simplified with each log entry containg: currnet URL, date and time and the complete server response for each request.

New in Blue Crab 5.0.03 (May 25, 2011)

  • The built-in aggregator has been extended. It now supports aggregating files by modification date. This is done as follows: First the files are organized into folders according to the year, into "year folders," then the files for each year are aggregated by month and day into subfolders of each year folder. This is analagous to how iPhoto organizes photo files by date.
  • There is a new menu item titled "Aggregate a Folder by Modification Date…" and the older menu item has been renamed to "Aggregate a Folder by extension…"
  • The aggregator now displays a progress window while it is working, because date aggregation can take a while to complete.
  • Note that aggregation is performed "in place" modifying the locations of files in the chosen folder, and that this operation is not undoable by the app. So use it with caution, or you may want to operate on a copy, or make a backup.

New in Blue Crab 5.0.02 (May 17, 2011)

  • Browser support update: Various features of the app require the ability to obtain the current web browser's front window's URL so it can be imported automaticalluy into Blue Crab (see the "Grab" menu for example.) Recent changes to Google Chrome broke the ability to do that for Chrom, and it is now fixed. The method of obtaining the URL for Opera has also been updated.

New in Blue Crab 5.0.01 (Mar 15, 2011)

  • Bug fix: The progress bars in the Batch Download window progress column were not getting updated during the download of each item until the download completed. This was due to an inadvertent offset in an index.
  • Bug fix: Two labels in the Batch Downoad window were not bound to the edges of the window resulting in them obscurring the file list if you resized the window.
  • Blue Crab's webpages have been rewritten/updated.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.55 (Mar 11, 2011)

  • The default directory of the Search window is set to the app's application support folder.
  • The Bookmarks window is no longer created by default. Rather a new grabber window is displayed. Use the Bookmarks menu to show the Bookmarks window.
  • If a bookmark item's "shortcut icon" (also known as a favicon) can not be found it is set to a genric icon, and it is no longer looked up for the current session. This reduces the display speed of the window after it is initially loaded.
  • Bookmarks files are no longer ugraded from much older versions that date back to version 3.
  • All console logging has been removed.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.54 (Feb 3, 2011)

  • Batch Downloader: Added an "extension" filter as a compliment to the MIME type filter. This filter should be easier for users, since MIME types are less well known than extensions. Also, extension filters are much faster to apply because they do not require access to the server since the extension is part of the URL. Use the new "Extension Filter" button in the Batch Download window to access the editor.
  • Safari History Import: Mime and extension filters are now applied when importing URLs from Safari's History.
  • The mime and extension filters are loaded when the Batch Downloader is displayed. This means they are restored from the previous session. Make a note of that because it is possible you may forget that you have filters in effect.
  • Batch Downloader: The default state of the "Display Name" and "Display Modification Date" is off because it improves the speed of display of the window. Both of these options may require querying the server for the URL information, and that can be time consuming, especially if the list is long.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.53 (Jan 26, 2011)

  • All grabber activity is now written to the "global" log file; previously only the Batch Downloader used the global log file. You can open this log file using the "Open Console" item in the File menu.
  • The global log file's location is now in the "Blue Crab" folder in "Home > Library > Application Support > Limit Point Software"
  • Configuration files and the default "Grabbed Files" now reside in the "Blue Crab" folder in "Home > Library > Application Support > Limit Point Software." You can change the location grabbed files are placed using a custom configuration.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause the program to quit when starting a download for a redirected URL. This was because the log file was not initialized at the time the redirection was handled.
  • Fixed a bug in the Bookmarks window in which the program could hang while it tried to get the "shortcut icon" of an empty new bookmark item. This happened because the item does not contain a "real" URL.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.52 (Dec 15, 2010)

  • A new feature for "aggregating" files in folders has been added. Select the function from the File menu's new "Aggregate a Folder" menu item. Aggregating is the process of collecting all files in a folder into subfolders by file extension. The subfolder names are the extensions they contain.
  • The license screen message for new users has been removed.
  • New Blue Crab users now have a 30 day demo, rather than just 10.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.51 (Dec 1, 2010)

  • When the option to only save web location bookmarks (webloc's) is selected, the original extension of the URL is no longer replaced with the extension "webloc" but rather the whole URL is appended with that extension. This prevents a bookmark with a similar path and filename, but different extension, from being overwritten by a new bookmark with the same path and filename.
  • Network connectivity checking has been add to the following operations to prevent repetitive failures: all grabbers, and all types of batch downloading: downloading, archiving and imaging. When network connectivity is a problem, the program alerts you and ask if you want to continue.
  • Your option is to stop immediately (Cancel), or try to resolve the connection issue, and then continue (OK). Note that Blue Crab has an option for resuming downloads that can be used if you need to terminate a download: This option is named "Load URL data from disk, if available, when grabbing a website", see the "Grabber" pane to set this option.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.50 (Nov 26, 2010)

  • A new option has been added to the Grabber pane of Preferences: "Only save web location (webloc) files for each URL, not the content of the URLs." When this option is selected each URL will be saved as a web location file (with extension "webloc") rather than saved with the contents of the URL. This is a bookmarking facility.
  • A recent update to the web browser Opera changed the manner in which the browsers current URL can be contained. Blue Crab has been modified to support that change in its "current browser url" grabber methods.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.49 (Oct 26, 2010)

  • The Batch Downloader now respects list selections: The "Download," "Archive" and "Image" commands will now operate just on the URLs in a selection, or all URLs if there is no selection. (Note: if you have a selection, use "Command-click" to deselect it.) List selections are also now observed when you double click on them to open the URL in your default web browser.
  • The "Download," "Archive" and "Image" commands are now accessible via a contextual menu. Control-click on the list items to open the contextual menu. The "Open" command will open the selected URLs. The operations apply to the current list selection.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.48 (Oct 21, 2010)

  • The Batch Downloader list now has a new column called "URL Name." This name is the text which represents the URL's link in HTML. This value will be the URL's text that displays in your browser, commonly underlined or highlighted. It is a label for the link, analogous to the title of the page a URL references.
  • For each URL the Batch Downloader keeps track of a URLs name and title, if they exist. These values are now saved and restored when the batch download window is closed and opened, respectively, provided the option to save the whole batch list is ON. (Options for the batch download window are specified in program Preferences.)
  • The progress bars in the Batch Downloader are now properly updated when the window is deactivated and then re-activated. {previously the progress bars were not redrawn.)

New in Blue Crab 4.9.47 (Oct 6, 2010)

  • New Grabber Preference: This option is called "Pause quicker grabber on network error" and will cause the iterator to pause when a network error occurs, such as an unexpected disconnection. As usual, this option is OFF by default. Enabling this option may be desirable if the network is unreliable as it prevents the download from missing files during a downtime. You must manually resume a paused iteration.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.46 (Sep 17, 2010)

  • The Batch Download window has two new checkboxes for setting the option to show the "Name" and "Date" columns of the URL table. These are optional because both could possibly slow down the display of the list if it is large or the network is slow: each may require server access to find the values required. (Date: displays the modification date of the URL as returned by the server; Name: returns various forms of the URL "save" name, which if selected as "URL Title" requires server access to get the URL's title.) Both options are ON by default.
  • A new Preferences option is now available to select inclusion of a URL's search arguments in the "save" filename, when the option to save a URL by it's filename is selected. This option is OFF by default.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.44 (Aug 22, 2010)

  • New Batch Downloader URL generation feature: You can now import URLs whose parts are formed using a numeric range or string list. This is done by specifying the general form of the URL using special notation as in: "http://www.limit-point.com/{images,music,movies}/page[1-199].html." A string replacement list has the form {string1, string2,...,stringN}, as in {images,music,movies}. A numeric range has the form [n-m:x] (x is increment), as in [1-199] or [0-50:5]. Click the "Import or expand from URL…" button in the lower part of the Batch Download window. A window is displayed prompting for the string. If you enter a URL with no patterns, the links contained by the URL are imported, as usual. Otherwise the program generates all URLs using the string list and/or numeric range.
  • New Batch Downloader Preference: This option is called "Rename duplicates." If you select this option Blue Crab will rename any file by the same name as the current URL so that it can be downloaded. Otherwise, since the Batch Downloader does not overwrite files by the same name, files tat have the same name will not be downloaded (note that this depends on the selected file naming scheme you choose: using URL filename, name sequentially, using URL pathname or title.)

New in Blue Crab 4.9.43 (Aug 19, 2010)

  • URL data loading option: "Load URL data from disk, if available, when grabbing a website" - this option is available on the "Grabber" pane of the program preference panel (so it is a "global" feature, not specific to the chosen configuration.) It is OFF by default.
  • If this option is selected: When grabbing a website, URL data will be loaded from disk, if available, rather than loading it from the internet. This feature is intended primarily for resuming a download that was terminated, and not for updating a website previously downloaded.
  • Grabber windows display "Looking for url disk file" in the status message area when the option is selected.
  • This method should not be used with remapping dynamic urls since the file names can not be properly mapped during the update as that information from the first download is not saved. (A future update may provide this ability.)
  • Speed is also improved since pages loaded from disk will not be relinked or remapped if these options are selected in the configuration. (If pages were relinked when the data was originally saved, there is no need to relink them again.) Also, data is not re-saved to disk because it is identical.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.42 (Aug 13, 2010)

  • Batch Downloader: When saving the result of a download (either for grabbing URL source, web archiving or imaging) the desired destination filename is changed if a file by the same name already exists in the download folder. This is currently achieved by appending a unique identifier to the desired filename; other methods will be forthcoming. This is useful because many URLs are either unnamed, renamed the same, or duplicated which resulted in downloads being overwritten or not saved.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.41 (Aug 5, 2010)

  • Preferences: a new preference named "Create Web Archives of all downloaded pages" has been added to the "Grabber" pane of the application Preference window. When this option is selected a Web Archive of the page is created adjacent to the downloaded HTML file.
  • See Webarchive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webarchive) for more information on this type of file.
  • This option is OFF by default, and if selected it applies to every grabber you use.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.40 (Jul 29, 2010)

  • All the following apply to the Batch Downloader:
  • The batch downloader window has been modified to make it easier to choose from the various retrieval options: image, archive or download.
  • Rather than specifying "Image URLs" from a checkbox and selecting the image format in Preferences, you can now simply click one of three buttons: "Image," "Archive" or "Download."
  • When you click "Image" the imaging format is determine by the setting in Preferences.
  • Each button will change its name to "Stop" when clicked so you can stop the operation.
  • The batch download window list has a new column called "Date." The date displayed is either the "Last Modified" or "Date" HTTP header field value or the "Last Visited Date" in Safari's History, depending on where the URLs in the list were obtained.
  • When archiving files the file modification and creation dates are set to the date displayed in the "Date" column. This is useful when you archive your Safari bookmarks because it if they are sorted by date in the Finder they will appear in the order you visited them.
  • A button for importing URLs from Safari's History has been added to the batch Download window (you can also select the action from the menu bar.)
  • The batch download window now displays status strings for imaging and archiving. The status item will be either "YES" or "NO" for success or failure, respectively.
  • The batch downloaded now always auto-redirects if necessary. (it would only previously re-direct if the option to "allow the system software handle redirection" was selected in Preferences.)
  • You can now stop imaging or archiving by clicking the appropriate "Stop" button.
  • More status messages are displayed during Imaging and Archiving for better feedback on progress.
  • A memory leak was fixed in the archiver.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.39 (Jul 26, 2010)

  • Various improvements to the Search window (accessed from the File menu.)
  • Search: A QuickLook document preview window has been added to the Search facility. After a search is conducted and search results are presented in the hierarchical view, single click on an item to open the QuickLook viewer. (On Mac OS X 10.4 the preview will simply be the files icon, since QuickLook is only available on Mac OS X 10.5 and above.)
  • Search: Use the QuickLook window to display the list of words in the current document, sorted alphabetically. This is a method for obtaining a summary of the documents content, taken out of context. (It is the same index used by Spotlight.)
  • Search: The Search window now searches any document type supported by Spotlight, since it uses Spotlight for text extraction.
  • Search: The search query of the Search window is placed into the "Find" clipboard so that you can quickly search for the term in the document itself when it is opened in the creator application, provided that application supports the Find clipboard, such as TextWrangler or XCode. (Double click an item in the search results window to open it in the default application for that type of file.)
  • Bookmarks: If you Command-click an item in the Bookmarks window the item is now displayed inside a WebView window. (See the help tags for the window for more options.)

New in Blue Crab 4.9.38 (Jun 17, 2010)

  • Batch downloader: A new imaging format has been added called "Web Archive." Select this option in the Preferences window "Behavior" panel for batch downloading. When selected URLs which are "archivable" will be downloaded into webarchives (file extension "webarchive")

New in Blue Crab 4.9.37 (Jun 15, 2010)

  • The batch downloader now supports URL's which include username and password as in http://username:password@hostname/, in order to login to a realm the URL belongs to. (Batch download also supports setting a username and password for realm login which applies to all URL's. The URL's specific username and password will override those values, if provided.)

New in Blue Crab 4.9.36 (Jun 14, 2010)

  • An active batch download can now be paused. Use the new pause button.
  • The mime filter window in the batch downloaded remembers its size and filter match strings.
  • Progress and status messages are shown for url importing from a browser and a url.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.35 (Jun 7, 2010)

  • When "imaging urls" : Fixed a problem that occurred on some websites in which the image would contain scroll bars due to an inadequate image size.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.34 (Jun 1, 2010)

  • The Batch Downloader can now read all URLs in Safari's history for downloading or imaging.
  • Choose the new menu item labeled "Safari History..." in the Grab menu to invoke this function. (To image the URLs into graphic files select the "Image URLs" option in the Batch Download window; select the image format in the Preferences window.)

New in Blue Crab 4.9.33 (May 22, 2010)

  • Extended the size of the progress status display in the Batch Downloader window so messages are not truncated for large downloads.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.32 (May 19, 2010)

  • Support for the Google Chrome browser ( http://www.google.com/chrome ) has been added. (Note: Access for Assistive Devices needs to be enabled in the System Preferences "Universal Access" for this feature to work.)

New in Blue Crab 4.9.31 (May 17, 2010)

  • Improved the Batch Download window user interface.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.30 (May 13, 2010)

  • The Google Image Search has been added to the "Grab" menu.
  • The Google Image Search has a new option: automatically create a download folder named after the image search terms, and located in the users current internet download directory. Select this option in Preferences by clicking the "Preferences" button in the Batch download window.
  • Added an option to Preferences for automatically resetting the batch download list for each import or Google Image search.
  • Better progress feedback is provided during URL extraction from the Google Image Search.
  • A new button for opening the download folder has been added to the Batch download window (adjacent to the download folder button."
  • Batch download progress is displayed is the Dock icon.
  • The demo trial automatically re-news itself for new versions, this enables you to extend your demo if the last version demo expired.
  • When setting the file to the title in Batch download, HTML entities in the title are replaced (such as & for the ampersand.)
  • When setting filename in the Batch download url encodings (% escapes) are replaced.
  • The Batch downloader only downloads a file if a file by the same name does not already exist in the current download folder (this enables fast resume of a stopped download.)
  • The Google Image Search remembers the last input query.
  • Sorting the batch download list by status code has been implemented.
  • URL titles are cached in the Batch downloader to save time, particularly when scrolling through the URL list.
  • Determining the MIME type of a URL by filename has been expedited.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.29 (May 10, 2010)

  • Custom icons can be added to media files, such as images and movies, after they are downloaded.
  • A custom icon is generated from the media itself so that it represents the files contents, it is stored in the file itself.
  • Select this option in the Grabber pane of the Preferences window. It is unselected by default.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.28 (May 7, 2010)

  • When performing batch downloads from the Batch Download window, files are only saved to disk if the web server did not report any errors, such as "file not found." (This is useful for the Google Image searcher which can report "file not found" status codes from servers which no longer serve outdated image URLs.)

New in Blue Crab 4.9.27 (May 7, 2010)

  • Maintenance update.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.26 (May 5, 2010)

  • A new task has been added to the function menu in the Batch Download window: "Google Image Search." Select this option to extract images from search results pages of a Google image search.
  • After selecting this task enter the Google search terms to use for an image search. When the prompt for search terms is dismissed the search results are obtained and used to populate the batch download list with the URLs of the images. Click the "Start" button to begin the image download.
  • Specify the number of pages to extract images from in the Behavior pane of the preferences window: select a number, 1 to 50 , from the "Google Images Pages" popup.
  • Note: You can set the download folder in the Batch Download window, and name it accordingly, say after or related to the search query. During and after the image download you can easily preview the results in the Finder with Cover Flow.
  • Open the Batch Download window by choosing "Batch Download URLs" in the "Grab" menu of Blue Crab.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.25 (Apr 29, 2010)

  • The "Current Browser URL" functionality (used for loading the browsers URL) has been extended to work with the browsers Opera and Flock, and the Firefox support has been fixed.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.24 (Apr 23, 2010)

  • Another file naming type has been added to the Batch Downloader : name downloaded files using their title, if available, otherwise use the file's name (ex. the file is an image and has no title.) Set this option in the "Batch Downloader" section of the Preferences "Behavior" pane.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.23 (Apr 5, 2010)

  • When imaging URLs in the batch downloader TIFF format now uses LZW compression to create smaller files.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.22 (Mar 29, 2010)

  • Added the option to perform PDF imaging in the Batch download window. Select the imaging format in the Behavior pane of the Preferences window. Imaging is activated using the "Image URLs" checkbox.
  • The filenames of imaged URLs are formatted according to the selected type in the Behavior pane of the Preferences window.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.21 (Mar 2, 2010)

  • In the Batch Downloader, the MIME Import Filter window's "Lookup MIME types..." button now loads "http://www.feedforall.com/mime-types.htm" in your default browser.
  • The program now can read its property list to access the value of the URL for MIME selection. This way you can specify your own URL by editing the property list (com.limit-point.BlueCrab.plist in Home>Library/Preferences.) The key is "Batch Import MIME Types URL"
  • The user interface for the MIME import feature has been improved for clarification on how to use it. In particular accessing the Console log for the filter progress, as this can be time consuming, depending on how many URLs are on the web page being imported.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.20 (Mar 2, 2010)

  • Made changes related to the new "everything" registration policy, i.e. one donation provides access to all Limit Point Software products. When notification of your donation is received permanent passwords are delivered to you for all our products, including Blue Crab.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.19 (Jan 25, 2010)

  • Fixed bug with registration issues.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.18 (Mar 27, 2009)

  • Improved the speed of the media grabber by avoiding unnecessary downloads (such as resources of other types or to display images for the slideshow.)
  • Improved the "completeness" of the media grabber by extending the method of determining media of particular types.
  • The media grabber slideshow has been extended to work with media types movies and PDFs.
  • Download progress of redirected urls is now displayed in the media grabber (and all "quicker grabber" windows in general.)

New in Blue Crab 4.9.17 (Mar 6, 2009)

  • When using the "Media Grabber" to download images from a web page or web site you now have the option of having them imported automatically to an album in iPhoto called "Blue Crab Import."
  • Select this option on the "Media Grabber" pane of the Preferences window (it is OFF by default.)

New in Blue Crab 4.9.16 (Jan 20, 2009)

  • Fixed the disclosure triangles in the Bookmarks window (they were not displaying.)
  • Added "shortcut icons" (also known as "favicons") to the entries in the Bookmarks window.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.15 (Jan 5, 2009)

  • The "Name" column of the Batch Download window's URL list now reflects the file naming format selected in the program preferences window, i.e either using the URL filename, sequentially or using the URL pathname.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.14 (Dec 8, 2008)

  • A new button has been added to the Batch Download window to open the Batch Download preference pane in the program preferences window.
  • The program preferences window would not be brought to the front when selecting "Preferences..." from the application window if it was already open and behind other windows.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.13 (Oct 30, 2008)

  • Changed the method of renaming duplicate files when imaging URLs in the Batch Download window.
  • Removed the Help menu item for Version History notes.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.12 (Sep 16, 2008)

  • This version enables you to specify the image format for the "Image URLs" feature of the Batch Downloader.
  • The image format is specified on the Behavior pane of the application's Preferences window.
  • All image formats supported by your installed QuickTime components are available for export.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.11 (Aug 25, 2008)

  • Bug fix: If the program was setup to retry downloading URLs that fail, then the "Skip" button would cause the program to retry the download rather than skip the current URL.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.10 (Aug 20, 2008)

  • The login username and password in the Batch Download window are now saved (with the password saved to the Keychain) then restored whenever the window or program are re-opened.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.9 (Jul 28, 2008)

  • Implemented two new file naming methods for the Batch Download window: Sequential and URL Pathname. The purpose of these methods is to help avoid ambiguity in the names of the disk files.
  • The Sequential method names the downloaded files as "File X" where X is the index of the file in the batch list.
  • The URL Pathname method names the downloaded files as "Folder1-Folder2-...-FolderN-URLFilename" where ""Folder1/Folder2/../FolderN" would be the path component of the URL of the file.
  • And of course there is still the option to name the downloaded file using the same filename as the URL itself. Ambiguity in this case is handled by appending UUID's to files with the same name.
  • Specify your preference using the new option available in the "Behavior" pane of the program's "Preferences..." window, accessible from the "Blue Crab" application menu.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.8 (Jul 14, 2008)

  • Loading the Media Grabber was causing the program to terminate since the "current browser url" button was inadvertently not added to this window in the last update. (See Version 4.9.7 notes for information on this feature.)

New in Blue Crab 4.9.7 (Jul 9, 2008)

  • All the grabber windows now have a "current browser url" button which when clicked puts the current URL of a supported browser into the starting URL text field. This new button is located adjacent to the UTRL text field, and is labeled with the letter C. (Blue Crab supports the latest version of these browsers: Safari, OmniWeb, Camino and Firefox)
  • The text file importer of the Batch Download window has been enhanced to support more types of text encodings.
  • A new option is available when generating a sitemap, called "mode". The mode determines if the sitemap suffix filter includes or excludes a URL whose suffix is contained by the suffix list. SItemap suffix filters are entered on the "Logs/UA" pane of the configuration editor. This option is set to "Include Suffixes" by default.
  • There is a new option to not remember the list of files when the batch downloader is closed. Select this option on the "Behavior" pane of the program's Preferences window.
  • When downloading one page, you now have option to retrieve all hyperlinked linked resources, not just the images and non-href links. Select this option on the "Behavior" pane of the program Preferences window; it is off by default.
  • The names of the navigation window for setting download folder was changed from "Open" to "Choose Download Folder", and the name of the action button was changed from "Open" to "Choose"
  • Bug fix: The "current web browser url" feature elsewhere in the program was not working with the latest version of Camino. Use the latest version of Camino for this feature to work.
  • Bug fix: If you deleted the destination folder of the batch downloader the default download directory was not being set to the standard internet download folder as it should be.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.6 (Apr 19, 2008)

  • Improved the behavior of the batch downloader when importing text files.
  • Fixed a bug that could corrupt memory when the batch download window was closed.

New in Blue Crab 4.9.5 (Jan 29, 2008)

  • The URL relinking mechanism has been enhanced for compatibility with more HTML editors.