Auction Hunter 1.2.35 is available for download

What's new:

• Fixed a problem when parsing prices containing thousands separators.

Auction Hunter 1.2.34 is available for download

What's new:

• Fixed item's bid value parsing within the new item's details page.
• Changed to better understand bid reply pages with a "bid too low" message.
• Some minor changes related to item's page parsing.

Auction Hunter 1.2.30 is available for download

PLEASE NOTICE: starting from version 1.2.8, Auction Hunter requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or greater in order to run.

What's new:

• Date and time management rewritten, due to a problem with latest Mac OS X versions.
• Fixed a problem with some time zones.
• Fixed a bug with Items Search dialog, where the first search didn't find anything.
• Changed to handle new search results page format.
• Changed to recognize new item URL format.
• Fixed a bug that made searches find just first 25 items.
• Changed to recognize private auctions correctly.
• Changed to better identify auctions closed by seller.
• Changed to correctly extract number of bids in new eBay item details' page.
• Enhanced sold items recognition.
• Fixed a bug in minimum bid value parsing.

Auction Hunter 1.2.19 is available for download

PLEASE NOTICE: starting from version 1.2.8, Auction Hunter requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or greater in order to run.

What's new:

• Solved the "time offset" for french users, due to a Snow Leopard bug when parsing dates.
• Fixed the bid amount parsing, that failed to recognize prices with thousands separator.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with daylight time savings on eBay France
• Fixed seller name parsing problem
• Fixed date parsing problem on ebay.de, ebay.at, ebay.ch
• Fixed a couple of minor errors on Mac OS X 10.6.x
• Fixed a problem with daylight time savings on eBay France and eBay Spain
• Fixed a bug in date handling on Mac OS X 10.6.x.
• Because of some eBay web site changes, some Auction Hunter features, like search and drag&drop from browser, stopped working. Now the problem has been fixed.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a time zone conversion for items listed on ebay.fr and ebay.es.
• Fixed a problem with item's web page parsing, due to some item page layout changes.
• Enhanced high bidder recognition.
• Fixed a problem with item's web page parsing on ebay.fr and ebay.de, due to some item page layout changes.

Bug Fixes

• Added the support of the new My eBay "beta" layout.
• Fixed parsing of eBay Motors items.
• Fixed various My eBay synchronization problems.
• Fixed a couple of crashes on Mac OS X 10.3.9.
• Fixed a bug related to the "show new auctions only" feature, that did sometimes display a wrong items list.
• Fixed a bug in search management that caused the application to find just first page of results.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash while searching.
• Enhanced login mechanism in order to recognize and avoid situations that may led to unintentional logouts.
• Fixed an incorrect behavior in cookies management that could cause login failure.
• Fixed parsing of some very specific items on ebay.it, that were marked as unavailable.

Bug Fixes

• Partially redesigned login procedure in order to solve the login problem due to recent eBay web site modifications.
• Fixed a bug that caused bid failure when you're the high bidder already.
• Fixed a bug with search results, that caused just the first 50 found items to be listed.
• Fixed an issue that made the application display the message "you've been outbid" just after a bid, even if you're the actual high bidder.
• Fixed a bug that caused a crash when double-clicking onto the image thumbnail, inside the info panel.
• Fixed a nasty bug in preferences handling, related to eBay users, that caused user's verification to fail, and sometimes the users being not loaded at startup.
• Synchronization with My eBay area has been partially fixed.

New Features

• Login and bid mechanisms have been completely rewritten for enhanced reliability.

Bug Fixes

• Enhanced bid reply page recognition.
• Fixed some problems related to searches.
• Fixed a couple of additional problems with snipes, related to foreign (non-USA) eBay sites.
• Fixed a problem that caused ended items with unknown end date to be mixed with active ones, if the list is sorted by remaining time.
• Fixed high bidder recognition, for bids placed with Auction Hunter.
• Fixed search mechanism: now searches should return the correct number of items.
• Fixed wrong "reserve met" recognition for items found on english sites.
• Fixed some problems when parsing pages in new format.
• Fixed a crash that happened when the application was unable to snipe, after reaching the maximum number of retries.
• Fixed My eBay sync when using foreign (non-USA) eBay sites (the new eBay interface is still unsupported).
• Fixed a bug that could cause auction details being loaded from ebay.com instead of the site where the item was found on.
• Fixed currency parse error that prevented some items from being correctly detailed.
• Fixed minimum bid price recognition.

New Features

• Completely revised auction details parsing mechanism.
• Completely revised cookies management.
• Bids and snipes are now performed on the site where the auction was found on.
• When double-clicking on an item, now it will be open in web browser on the site it was found on. You can override this behavior by turning the new checkbox "Always open auctions in browser with preferred site" on ("eBay" preferences panel).
• A new item has been added to the auctions contextual menu, to let you open selected items in browser using one of the supported ebay sites.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a couple of problems that could cause a crash under some rare circumstances.

New Features

• Enabled version checking for intermediate builds too: a preference has been added to let you choose if the application should check for final releases only or beta versions too.

Bug Fixes

• The multi-category searches didn't work anymore because of the usual eBay web site changes, so we had to change our approach. This version of Auction Hunter performs a separate search for each category, then joins the results as they were coming from a single search. Although this works as expected, there is a side effect: since each category is being searched separately, you may get back a number of results exceeding the maximum results number defined in preferences. Because of this a warning message will be displayed when you add a category to remind you of this (it can be disabled, of course).
• In previous versions category update may fail because of some eBay web site changes; now it should work as expected again.
• A wrong categories popup menu was shown when editing a previously saved search.
• Fixed the "cookies problem" error that occurred, sometimes, during eBay user login.

Bug Fixes

• Memory management has been enhanced in order to lower the memory requirements.
• Changed the log mechanism to ensure that log messages are saved to Auction_Hunter.log file only.
• Fixed the fast search function for better extended characters handling.
• Fixed a bug in parsing engine that could make the application hang while refreshing items with some specific HTML code in title.
• Fixed some issues that could make the application hang.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when dealing with the folder list.
• Solved a search issue that caused endless searches under some circumstances.
• Fixed a bug that caused searches to return a wrong number of items.
• Fixed a crash under Mac OS X 10.4.11.
• Fixed a "Quick Search" problem when searching with multiple words.
• Fixed several memory leaks.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a couple of hangs on Leopard.
• Fixed item's details extraction from eBay web page.
• Fixed a problem in cookies management.
• Fixed a problem with snipes, caused by wrong HTML pages parsing.
• Fixed search results extraction.
• Fixed extended characters handling in search string.
• Fixed "International location" settings within Item Search dialog for German localization.
• Fixed "Fast Search" behavior by ignoring leading and trailing spaces.
• Fixed "Create Archive with Log Files" feature, that failed under some circumstances.
• Fixed an additional problem that could cause snipe failure.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a wrong "Quick Search" field behavior.
• Fixed auction list display in French localization.

New Features

• Added a new item to the "Help" menu to easen the process of sending reports to our support contact. The application creates a compressed archive of the support files we often need to look at in order to understand a problem's origin (the log files and the Error folder).
• Enhanced eBay user(s) management by adding the ability to check every user at startup. The automatic check can be disabled from within the "eBay" preferences panel, where you can also force a check of your user(s).

Bug Fixes

• The application has been numbered "1.0" just to avoid confusion, and clarify that Auction Hunter is not beta software!
• Fixed a problem that could cause Auction Hunter return more items than expected when search results returned a single item.
• Forcing online status check does now correctly update the red/green "status light", too.
• Due to some changes to the eBay login pages, Auction Hunter did no more show an error when logging in with a wrong user and/or password; now this works again.
• Fixed a problem related to thumbnail download.
• Partially rewritten the login mechanism in order to solve a cookies management problem due to recent eBay site changes.
• Fixed a couple of problems when editing saved searches.
• Updated French translation (we are still waiting for the completion of German localization. Our apologies!).
• Removed some glitches in notes text editing.
• Some additional Leopard issues have been fixed.
• Bidding result understanding has been improved.
• Solved a network problem when waking the Mac from sleep.

New Features

• Some parts of the search engine have been rewritten to lower memory requests and speed up HTML pages processing.
• The mechanism used to determine if the network is actually reachable has been enhanced.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed all known issues with Mac OS X 10.5: this version runs as expected on Leopard, too.
• Fxed a bug in My eBay import feature, that prevented importing more than 25 items (first listing page).
• Fixed a problem in notes editing window, where Right Arrow and Enter keys weren't handled correctly.
• Image is now retrieved correctly for ended auctions, too.
• Fixed a bug that prevented restoring original category within categories popup, when editing old automatic searches (i.e. searches saved wit an old version of the application).
• Items marked as "Seller away" are now recognized as expected.
• Fixed a bug with search results on eBay Italy.
• Image is now retrieved correctly for ended auctions, too.
• Items resulting from a temporary search (located in folder "Search Results") are actually removed from refresh list when another temporary search is being executed.
• Row height for folders list is now correctly computed based on folder list font.
• Solved a registration problem with some malformed codes.

New Features

• Added some new search options to the "Item Search" dialog.
• Updated to SQLite library version 3.4.2, for better reliability.

Bug Fixes

• eBay bid result messages have been changed again, so Auction Hunter has been enhanced to better understand these new messages.
• The title of eBay Motors items is now retrieved correctly.
• The sub-categories of eBay Motors are now loaded correctly. PLEASE NOTICE: due to some technical limitations Auction Hunter is currently unable to load more than two levels of eBay Motors sub-categories.
• Fixed a bug that prevented loaded sub-categories from being saved.

New Features

• Added some new search options to the "Item Search" dialog.
• Updated to SQLite library version 3.4.1, for better reliability.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a parse bug when searching on italian and spanish sites.
• Fixed a problem due to some eBay site changes.
• Fixed a problem with "save item's page" feature.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem that in a few cases prevented registration code to be accepted.
• Fixed a problem with the "Unregister" feature.
• Fixed a typo in the trial notification dialog.
• Fixed some interface glitches with localized versions.
• Fixed a glitch in german interface, where start/end time was not visible in bottom panel.

Starting with this release Auction Hunter leaves the beta stage

New Features

• Added a network status indicator to the main window: you can also click it to force network status detection.
• Added the item "eBay Users Management..." to the "File" menu.
• Added French localization, thanks to Yves-Hervé Dujardin.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a glitch in the Setup Assistant.
• Fixed a glitch in the Subcategories selection dialog.
• Fixed a glitch in the Preferences window.
• Removed Network Status notification: now status changes are added only to the application log window.

New features:

• Added "Check Network Status" item to the "Utilities" menu, to force the application check eBay site reachability.
• Added "Network Status Changed" notification: as usual, you can disable it from Growl preferences panel if you don't need it. Network reachability changes are also logged to the Auction Hunter "Log" window.
• Updated to SQLite version 3.3.17, that should grant better database management performances.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a very rare crash that occurred when parsing auction details page.
• Fixed a wrong behavior that could prevent a snipe from being executed under very rare circumstances.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when the application wasn't able to insert a new user into the Keychain.
• Enhanced eBay bid reply page recognition including a couple of new error messages.
• Fixed a bug that could cause incomplete web archives generation when saving an auction's page.
• Fixed a bug that could lock the application on exit.
• Fixed a glitch in Alarm setup dialog (German localization only).
• Fixed a problem with searches on eBay Belgium site.

New features:

- Added Sparkle support to allow automatic updates installation (you need to check the "Version checking at startup" box in the Preferences dialog to take advantage of this feature).
- Resized "Item Search" dialog to better fit into 1024×768 monitors.
- Upgraded to Growl version 0.7.6.
- Upgraded to SQLite version 3.3.13.

Bug fixes:

- Fixed a problem that prevented items being found when searching for "Reserve price set/not set".
- Fixed a bug in automatic search duplication that could cause a crash when editing a duplicate search.
- Fixed a bug in "Sum auction prices".
- Fixed a subtle bug that prevented correct startup with corrupted "LogFile" contents.
- Fixed "top-down images" problem.