Comments on: WP Web Scraper

By: Grab Specific Content with WP Web Scraper | I'm Not Marvin

Grab Specific Content with WP Web Scraper | I'm Not Marvin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:07:29 +0000

[...] me very excited when I first heard about. It’s called WP Web Scraper. It’s created by Web Labs and available free in the WordPress Plugin Repository. WP Web Scraper works a little like an [...]

By: Виктор

Виктор — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:26:44 +0000

Love this plugin. Thanks

By: kapil

kapil — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:32:30 +0000

hey very nice plugin.

exactly suits my requirements

thanks

By: Viktor

Viktor — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:53:29 +0000

Pretty cool how you use the plugin to show how many times it’s been downloaded on WordPress.

By: Bruce Cat

Bruce Cat — Mon, 23 May 2011 02:47:34 +0000

Love this plugin. Thanks

By: Traste Linden

Traste Linden — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 01:37:23 +0000

Magnificent Plug-in Akshay!
Only thing that I am missing is an option to only scrape once, then have the scraped content inserted into the post where the short tag was placed (just like it is now, but actually saved only once) and then removing the short code(for a single scrapping-to-post), or disabling it for a chosen amount of time. That would open up a whole lot of possibilities, the scraped content would become search-able and could be used by automatic tagging etc.
Perhaps you are not able to do that, but that would have made the plug-in manifold more useful.

Keep up the good work!

By: Alexis NOMINE

Alexis NOMINE — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:05:17 +0000

Hello,

First of all, thanks for your great plugin.

It worked perfectly except for formatted text contained in tags where newlines were dropped.

Here is what i did to avoid that:
in wpws-includes/functions.php, line 247 I replaced

file_put_contents($cache_file, serialize( str_replace(array(“\r”,”\n”), ”, $response) ) );

with

file_put_contents($cache_file, serialize( $response ) );

Is there a reason why newlines were dropped?

Regards

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:39:45 +0000

If you have this problem go to your theme: functions.php and add this line:
add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’);

And now the shortcode will work in the text widget.

By: alamgir

alamgir — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:14:25 +0000

hi all
i have scraped a site which shows some unknown character such as �. and when i update the value into mysql database it does not updated. please please help me.

By: Andy McDonald

Andy McDonald — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:53:35 +0000

Hello. I recently upgraded to version 2 and the app has stopped working on my site. are you able to help? [wpws url="http://www.poultonprimaryleague.org.uk/leagues.asp" selector="#table2:eq(2)" urldecode="0" cache="30" error="1" timeout="5" output="html" htmldecode="windows-1252"] thanks