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After a long wait and a major rewrite of the application, hirudo 0.7 is now available for download.

New in v0.6

- New functionality to create, apply, save and manage filename filters in the
Scraper/Generator results lists.
- Window size and position is now saved in user Preferences
- All text buttons have been replaced with icons and placed in Tool Bars
- A Splash screen has been added
- New button for stopping download process
- Unsupported characters in URLs now get encoded
- Assorted bug fixes and tweaks

Hirudo is a Java Swing application for downloading web content. It functions as a screen-scraper, filename generator and download manager. All this and much more in an intuitive cross-platform user interface. Hirudo requires Java 1.4.

New in v0.5
- Download progress is now rendered using Progress Bars
- Added new regular expression to extract URL fragments from JavaScript links
- Improved core Scraper regular expression so that it now matches all href
- attributes.
- Email addresses found by the Scraper are now displayed correctly
- Ability to choose LookAndFeel. Setting is saved in user preferences.
- Abilily to set the Referer for the Scraper and Downloads screens
- New "More Options" sections on the Scraper, Generator and Downloads screens
- Ability to save the Scraper and Generator lists to file, and re-import them
- New Confirm on Exit dialog
- Application window is now resizeable
- Download Manager now shows URL, Status, Progress, File Size, Percentage
Complete, Speed, Time Elapsed, Time Remaining, File Type and Response Code
- Fixed bug in handling of port numbers in URLs
- Loads of other minor tweaks

Hirudo is a Java Swing application for downloading web content. It can leech
links from a URL and generate filename ranges. All this and much more in an
intuitive cross-platform user interface. Hirudo requires Java 1.4.

New in v0.4
- Ability to import and export Preferences
- Support for authentication with username/password in url
- Numerous bug fixes
- Improved message reporting to the Status Bar
- More Preferences including Referer spoofing and User Agent spoofing
- Screen Scraper now runs in a seperate thread
- HTTP headers can be dumped to the log window
- Greatly improved programme structure
- Improved usability of download manager

Hirudo is a Java Swing application for downloading web content. It can leech
links from a URL and generate filename ranges. All this and much more in an
intuitive cross-platform user interface. Hirudo requires Java 1.4.

New in v0.3
- New Downloads view that shows download progress, file size and content type
- Delete key now implements "Remove Selected" functionality
- New filename generator view
- Improved package structure
- Improved error reporting

I have just re-released v0.2 of hirudo as it appears the first release somehow got corrupted.

Thanks
Stuart

Hirudo is a Java Swing application for downloading web content. It can scrape and leech links from a URL using its own leeching engine or through integration with wget. Hirudo requires Java 1.4.

Version 0.2 introduces some major new functionality not available in 0.1:

- improved program structure
- improved commenting
- added "Clear Log" menu option
- changed LookAndFeel to system default
- added "Preserve Directory Structure" preference
- moved Scraper options to a context sensitive popup menu
- added "Leech with wget" option
- added "wget Location" preference
- improved Preferences layout
- "Leech with hirudo" now runs in a separate thread
- "Leech with wget" now runs in a separate thread
- wget output is sent to the Log window
- added Referer spoofing to hirudo and wget