v1.6.0 - Market Data, WebSocket Streaming and Structured Logging

WebScraper Pro v1.6.0

New Features

1. Real Market Data Integration

• Yahoo Finance provider (yfinance): historical OHLCV, quotes, batch quotes, symbol search
• Alpha Vantage provider: daily adjusted data, global quotes (API key optional)
• Curated list of 16 popular tickers (stocks, indices, commodities, crypto)
• 5-min in-memory cache for repeated requests
• Market Data tab in UI with fetch/quote/batch operations

2. WebSocket Real-Time Streaming

• Async WebSocket server on port 8766 (websockets library)
• Event broadcasting: analysis_result, log, data_update, market_quote, heartbeat
• Client messages: subscribe, ping, get_methods, get_datasets, get_history, run_analysis
• Start/Stop toggle in Export tab

3. Structured Logging System

• LogManager singleton with console (colored) + rotating file (JSON structured) + ring buffer
• 5MB rotating file logs stored in ~/.webscraperpro/logs/
• Log export to JSON/CSV
• In-memory ring buffer (500 entries) for UI log viewer
• Log stats with level counts
• View/Export/Stats/Clear log controls in Export tab

REST API Additions (7 new endpoints)

• GET /api/v1/market/quote/ - Single quote
• POST /api/v1/market/fetch - Fetch historical data
• POST /api/v1/market/batch-quotes - Batch quote
• GET /api/v1/market/tickers - Popular tickers list
• GET /api/v1/logs/recent - Recent log entries
• GET /api/v1/logs/stats - Log statistics
• POST /api/v1/logs/export - Export logs to file

Improvements

• Total: 76 methods across 16 categories (up from 72/15)
• New category: Market Data (4 methods)
• PyInstaller spec updated with yfinance, websockets, asyncio hiddenimports

Files Added

• core/quant/market_data.py (YahooFinanceProvider, AlphaVantageProvider, MarketDataFeed)
• core/api/websocket_server.py (QuantWebSocketServer)
• core/log_manager.py (LogManager, RingBufferHandler, ConsoleFormatter)

Test Results

• All 76 methods tested successfully
• 16 categories verified
• REST API: health, tickers, logs/stats, logs/recent all 200 OK
• LogManager: ring buffer, JSON/CSV export all working
• Backward compatibility: all v1.5.0 features verified

v1.5.0 — Charts, Reports & REST API

WebScraper Pro v1.5.0

New Features

1. Matplotlib Charts in UI

• 11 professional chart types: Forecast, Volatility, Efficient Frontier, Pie Weights, VaR Histogram, Drawdown, Correlation Heatmap, DSGE IRF, Phillips Curve, Comparison Bars, Multi-Series
• Dark-themed visualization embedded directly in the Quant panel (Charts tab)
• create_chart_widget() for Tkinter embedding, get_figure_as_base64() for API responses

2. PDF/Excel Report Generation

• PDFReportGenerator: Professional PDF with cover page, table of contents, per-analysis sections (ReportLab)
• ExcelReportGenerator: Multi-sheet Excel workbook with summary + detailed per-category sheets (openpyxl)
• Export directly from the Export tab or via REST API

3. REST API Server

• Flask-based HTTP API on port 8765
• Endpoints: /api/v1/health, /api/v1/methods, /api/v1/datasets, /api/v1/analyze/*
• Report endpoints: /api/v1/report/pdf, /api/v1/report/excel
• CORS enabled for browser-based access
• Start/Stop toggle directly from the Export tab

Improvements

• PyInstaller spec updated with report_generator, quant_charts, api.server hiddenimports
• Total: 72 methods across 15 categories (up from 65/13 in v1.4.0)
• New categories: Reports (2 methods), Charts (5 methods)

Files Added

• core/quant/report_generator.py
• core/quant/quant_charts.py
• core/api/server.py
• core/api/init.py

Test Results

• All 72 methods tested successfully
• PDF report: 10,980 bytes generated
• Excel report: 14,286 bytes generated
• API server: start/stop/health/methods all working

WebScraper Pro 1.4.0

WebScraper Pro - Commercial Web Scraping Application

Features

Core Engine

• Static Scraping: Fast HTTP-based scraping with requests + BeautifulSoup
• Dynamic Scraping: Full browser automation with Playwright (JavaScript rendering)
• Auto Mode: Automatically selects the best scraping method
• Proxy Rotation: Multiple strategies (random, round-robin, least-used, fastest)
• Rate Limiting: Token bucket, sliding window, fixed delay, adaptive algorithms
• Smart Parsing: CSS Selector, XPath, Regex, JSON Path, Table extraction

Data Export

• CSV (Excel-compatible with UTF-8 BOM)
• JSON (pretty-printed)
• Excel XLSX (with formatting, auto-filter, frozen headers)
• XML (structured)
• HTML Table (styled, responsive)
• SQLite Database

Professional UI

• Modern dark/light theme
• Dashboard with real-time progress
• Visual extraction rules manager
• Proxy management with health monitoring
• Task scheduler for automated scraping
• Comprehensive settings panel

Advanced Features

• Stealth mode to avoid bot detection
• Custom page actions (click, type, scroll, wait)
• Auto-scroll for infinite pages
• Link following and crawling
• Per-domain rate limiting
• Scheduled tasks (interval, daily, weekly, monthly)

Installation

1. Download and extract the ZIP file
2. Run WebScraperPro.exe
3. No installation required - portable application

System Requirements

• Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
• ~150 MB disk space
• Internet connection for scraping

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Built with Python, CustomTkinter, Playwright, and BeautifulSoup

WebScraper Pro 1.3.0

WebScraper Pro - Commercial Web Scraping Application

Features

Core Engine

• Static Scraping: Fast HTTP-based scraping with requests + BeautifulSoup
• Dynamic Scraping: Full browser automation with Playwright (JavaScript rendering)
• Auto Mode: Automatically selects the best scraping method
• Proxy Rotation: Multiple strategies (random, round-robin, least-used, fastest)
• Rate Limiting: Token bucket, sliding window, fixed delay, adaptive algorithms
• Smart Parsing: CSS Selector, XPath, Regex, JSON Path, Table extraction

Data Export

• CSV (Excel-compatible with UTF-8 BOM)
• JSON (pretty-printed)
• Excel XLSX (with formatting, auto-filter, frozen headers)
• XML (structured)
• HTML Table (styled, responsive)
• SQLite Database

Professional UI

• Modern dark/light theme
• Dashboard with real-time progress
• Visual extraction rules manager
• Proxy management with health monitoring
• Task scheduler for automated scraping
• Comprehensive settings panel

Advanced Features

• Stealth mode to avoid bot detection
• Custom page actions (click, type, scroll, wait)
• Auto-scroll for infinite pages
• Link following and crawling
• Per-domain rate limiting
• Scheduled tasks (interval, daily, weekly, monthly)

Installation

1. Download and extract the ZIP file
2. Run WebScraperPro.exe
3. No installation required - portable application

System Requirements

• Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
• ~150 MB disk space
• Internet connection for scraping

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Built with Python, CustomTkinter, Playwright, and BeautifulSoup

WebScraper Pro 1.2.0

WebScraper Pro - Commercial Web Scraping Application

Features

Core Engine

• Static Scraping: Fast HTTP-based scraping with requests + BeautifulSoup
• Dynamic Scraping: Full browser automation with Playwright (JavaScript rendering)
• Auto Mode: Automatically selects the best scraping method
• Proxy Rotation: Multiple strategies (random, round-robin, least-used, fastest)
• Rate Limiting: Token bucket, sliding window, fixed delay, adaptive algorithms
• Smart Parsing: CSS Selector, XPath, Regex, JSON Path, Table extraction

Data Export

• CSV (Excel-compatible with UTF-8 BOM)
• JSON (pretty-printed)
• Excel XLSX (with formatting, auto-filter, frozen headers)
• XML (structured)
• HTML Table (styled, responsive)
• SQLite Database

Professional UI

• Modern dark/light theme
• Dashboard with real-time progress
• Visual extraction rules manager
• Proxy management with health monitoring
• Task scheduler for automated scraping
• Comprehensive settings panel

Advanced Features

• Stealth mode to avoid bot detection
• Custom page actions (click, type, scroll, wait)
• Auto-scroll for infinite pages
• Link following and crawling
• Per-domain rate limiting
• Scheduled tasks (interval, daily, weekly, monthly)

Installation

1. Download and extract the ZIP file
2. Run WebScraperPro.exe
3. No installation required - portable application

System Requirements

• Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
• ~150 MB disk space
• Internet connection for scraping

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Built with Python, CustomTkinter, Playwright, and BeautifulSoup

WebScraper Pro 1.0.0

WebScraper Pro - Commercial Web Scraping Application

Features

Core Engine

• Static Scraping: Fast HTTP-based scraping with requests + BeautifulSoup
• Dynamic Scraping: Full browser automation with Playwright (JavaScript rendering)
• Auto Mode: Automatically selects the best scraping method
• Proxy Rotation: Multiple strategies (random, round-robin, least-used, fastest)
• Rate Limiting: Token bucket, sliding window, fixed delay, adaptive algorithms
• Smart Parsing: CSS Selector, XPath, Regex, JSON Path, Table extraction

Data Export

• CSV (Excel-compatible with UTF-8 BOM)
• JSON (pretty-printed)
• Excel XLSX (with formatting, auto-filter, frozen headers)
• XML (structured)
• HTML Table (styled, responsive)
• SQLite Database

Professional UI

• Modern dark/light theme
• Dashboard with real-time progress
• Visual extraction rules manager
• Proxy management with health monitoring
• Task scheduler for automated scraping
• Comprehensive settings panel

Advanced Features

• Stealth mode to avoid bot detection
• Custom page actions (click, type, scroll, wait)
• Auto-scroll for infinite pages
• Link following and crawling
• Per-domain rate limiting
• Scheduled tasks (interval, daily, weekly, monthly)

Installation

1. Download and extract the ZIP file
2. Run WebScraperPro.exe
3. No installation required - portable application

System Requirements

• Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
• ~150 MB disk space
• Internet connection for scraping

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Built with Python, CustomTkinter, Playwright, and BeautifulSoup