- fixes a bug that could result in the Scrape Progress chrome thingy sticking around forever
- makes chrome thingy disappear when URL changes or when tabs are switched
- changes scrapers table to translators table; all import/export/web translators now belong in this table
- adds Scholar.Translate to handle translation issues. eventually, Scholar.Ingester.Document will become part of this interface
- adds Scholar_File_Interface (in fileInterface.js) to handle UI for export and eventually import. (David, when you have time, please connect Scholar_File_Interface.exportFile to a button.)
- adds an export translator for MODS. all of our metadata, but not our hierarchy (projects, etc.) translates directly and unambiguously into valid MODS. eventually, we can use RDF or another format to handle hierarchy.
- adds utilities.getVersion() and utilities.inArray() for simplified scraper coding
- fixes minor interface issues with the nifty chrome scraping status window
- Move processDocuments, a function for loading a DOM representation of a document or set of documents, to Scholar.Utilities.HTTP
- Add Scholar.Ingester.ingestURL, a simplified function to scrape a URL (closes#33)
- Added methods getID(idOrName) and getName(idOrName) to Scholar.CreatorTypes and Scholar.ItemTypes to take either typeID or typeName
- Removed getTypeName() in each and changed references accordingly
- Streamlined both classes to be as similar as possible
- Make Amazon scraper work with multiple documents
- Fix bugs in processDocuments
- Make Scholar.Ingester.Utilities.getItemArray() willing to take an array of DOM nodes to search for links, and finally take advantage of the fact that objects have no length
- Multiple item detection code is now a part of the scraperJavaScript, rather than the scrapeDetectCode, and code to choose which items to add is part of Scholar.Ingester.Utilities, accessible from inside scrapers. The alternative approach would result in one request (or, in the case of JSTOR, three requests) per new item, while in some cases (e.g. Voyager) only one request is necessary to get all of the items.
Moved the capture icon into the URL bar (invisible until you visit a scrapable page. Currently just displays a Book, but will change to the correct item types in the future?)
- Ingester lets callback function save items, rather than saving them itself.
- Better handling of multiple items in API, although no scrapers currently implement this.
- Implemented loadDocument API, for loading and parsing the DOMs of HTML documents in the background
- Added scraper code to SVN repository (now includes 12 scrapers, see Writeboard for details)
To update to the latest versions of all scrapers, ensure you have an up-to-date version of sqlite3, then run:
sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/profileName/scholar.sqlite < scrapers.sql
