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mnmldave / scraper

Simple web scraping for Google Chrome.
http://mnmldave.github.com/scraper
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Working with FastestChrome or AutoPager #14

Open ChasingLeaves opened 12 years ago

ChasingLeaves commented 12 years ago

I'm loving what I can do with Scraper, but I'm finding myself a bit more limited in using it in conjunction with FastestChrome or AutoPager (AutoPager seems to be less problematic for Scraper).

If I load up several pages of search results (for almost any search facility), Scraper only works for the ten results of the particular page of a result has been used as an example to scrape - it won't, for example, include the results from the previous or the next page.

Particularly with FastestChrome, if I select a result from further down the page, Scraper just shows a blank white screen with only the movable divider. It also does this if I set a search facility to return 100 results per page, instead of 10 (like with Google results, for example). Can Scraper only work with a small selection of elements per page?

mnmldave commented 12 years ago

I'm finally hacking a bit on Scraper right now, and I believe the blank screen bug is unrelated to the number of elements on the page. I haven't tried FastestChrome or AutoPager, but the blank scraper window happens regularly with me as well.

For now, if you get a blank scraper window, try reloading the scraper popup window while it's open (ctrl-r or cmd-r on Mac).

ChasingLeaves commented 12 years ago

Wow... Fast service around here, eh? :p

Thanks for the suggestion - I'll give it a try and see if that improves things.