Ferret v0.15.0

Moving forward

April 25, 2021 by Tim Voronov


Hello friends,

Ferret v0.15.0 is out. This release is more focused on bug fixes and API improvements.

Since the runtime and CLI have been splitted into 2 different repositories, you can find CLI binaries here which was upgraded to v1.1.0.

What’s added

Support of document charset in HTTP driver

If your target page does not contain information if its content encoding and it is other than utf-8, you can help http driver to properly convert the page content into utf-8.

LET page = DOCUMENT("www.non-utf8-page.co", { driver: "http", charset: "windows-1251" })

Possibility to send keyboard events

Have you ever scraped a page with search input field that could be tirggered by pressing “Enter” key on your keyboard and there was no way of doing this using Ferret? Such a bumer!

Well, now you can do that with new PRESS and PRESS_SELECTOR functions!

LET page = DOCUMENT("https://soundcloud.com/", { driver: "cdp" }) WAIT_ELEMENT(page, '.headerSearch__input') LET search = ELEMENT(page, '.headerSearch__input') INPUT(search, "Singing ferret") WAIT(200) PRESS(search, "Enter") WAIT_ELEMENT(page, ".lazyLoadingList__list") FOR track IN ELEMENTS(page, ".searchItem") LIMIT 3 RETURN { artist: TRIM(INNER_TEXT(track, '.soundTitle__usernameText')), track: TRIM(INNER_TEXT(track, '.soundTitle__title')) }

What’s fixed

Ok, now, let’s take a look what bugs have been fixed!

  • Passing headers and cookies to HTTP driver
  • Reading property of anyonymous object
  • Clearing input text containing special characteers

Summary

As always, thanks everyone who contributed to the project!