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Check your latest version for SER and CB

gsa8mycowsgsa8mycows forum.gsa-online.de/profile/11343/gsa8mycows
edited December 2015 in GSA Search Engine Ranker
I really don't like windows and use linux for work, but must use windows for Scrapebox and GSA software.

However, checking for the latest version information is kind of a waste of time with a browser.

Sven put the changelog on his sales pages within an iframe, so digging that will show you URL log directly.

All you need is curl + less installed and a terminal/emulator. It probably works on cygwin too and mac. I don't have apple stuff/macs.

Here's the script to show the latest version changes:
user@debian:~$ cat cb
curl http://www.gsa-online.de/download/15420-26_change.log | less
user@debian:~$ cat ser
curl http://www.gsa-online.de/download/15420-24_change.log | less

Make a text file in your home directory(~) and add executable rights to the files(chmod +x ser cb). You can call the files whatever you want.

You can then see the latest changes with cd ~ && ./ser OR cd ~ && ./cb.

Or just ~/ser AND ~/cb.
Here's an example output:
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
10.28 - new: improved web-form matching
      - new: improved some engines
      - new: project URLs using macros ignore invalid urls from files
      - new: captcha service - http://tinyurl.com/gsa-cs
      - new: macro %spinfilename-<folder>% (more on macro guide at http://docu.gsa-online.de)
10.27 - fix: preview issue with a mix of commans and spin syntax in anchors
      - new: improved captcha processing
      - new: drupal - comment engine improved
      - fix: macro %banchor_text% was not working correctly
      - new: source and used search engines are now part of submitted data to
             later improve profiling of footprints/search engines/sources

You can quit from "less" with q or control + c.

You can make this more advanced probably by checking this at every time interval and compare it to a previous file, and have you an email sent when it changes, or make an rss feed even if you know how to do that. I don't.

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edit: Make also a file in your home dir called .curlrc with the following content:
user-agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0"
referer = ";auto"

Choose a user agent you like. Many sites block curl and wget.

Comments

  • why not just use linux and run gsa in a vm?
  • gsa8mycowsgsa8mycows forum.gsa-online.de/profile/11343/gsa8mycows
    I work with linux and prefer debian.

    However, on my server for SEO tools, windows is used.

    I've tried to run SER and CB in wine 1.6.2, but neither of them worked.
  • I know you work with linux. You can still work with linux, but for ease of use why not just like set it up in a dedicated vm on your linux machine, let it run and go back to using linux...
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