CrawlBar v0.4.1

Changes

• Distribute notarized universal macOS builds signed by the OpenClaw Foundation, including Homebrew installs, so the app identity persists across upgrades.

Fixes

• Accept current crawlkit/control manifests when optional descriptions or branding metadata are omitted.

Verification

• Universal macOS app: arm64 and x86_64
• Bundle identifier: com.vincentkoc.CrawlBar
• Developer ID team: FWJYW4S8P8
• Hardened runtime, notarization, stapled ticket, Gatekeeper, and Apple distribution checks verified
• SHA-256: 5733d7151d0ec45c4d9cab877d3100654a964e57cb0772dc4bc27807d9509a85

CrawlBar v0.4.0

Changes

• Add iMessage as a built-in crawler with status, refresh, search, privacy metadata, and native Messages branding.
• Add Apple Photos as a coming-soon built-in crawler with read-only status, initialization, search, and platform-native storage paths.
• Add development binary registration commands for testing local crawler builds in CrawlBar.

Fixes

• Install OpenClaw crawler apps from the current Homebrew tap instead of legacy formulas that lag released versions.

Full changelog: https://github.com/openclaw/crawlbar/blob/v0.4.0/CHANGELOG.md

CrawlBar v0.3.0

Changes

• Redesign the menu bar UI with RepoBar-style native rich menu rows, branded crawler icons, status summaries, and tabbed settings.
• Replace crawler detail tabs in Settings with one native scrolling detail page grouped into status, data, sync, and configuration sections.
• Improve app responsiveness by caching repeated config, manifest, binary lookup, native app, formatter, and icon work while reducing status refresh task overhead.
• Open Settings immediately by moving manifest, binary, config, and recent-log loading off the main actor.
• Use native switch-style controls for crawler boolean settings.
• Replace the generated app icon with a richer image-generated CrawlBar icon and use it for both runtime and packaged app icons.
• Enable Google (gog) and WhatsApp (wacli) crawler entries with real status, doctor, search, and install wiring.
• Fix Settings sidebar clicks so selecting crawler rows reliably updates the detail pane, and show the active sidebar selection clearly.
• Normalize crawler command environments with HOME so launchd-started menu bar status matches terminal status for tools like gog.
• Add Telecrawl as a built-in Telegram crawler with status, import, doctor, search, privacy, install metadata, and branded menu icon support.
• Make menu and settings opening faster by caching rendered crawler icons, coalescing status menu rebuilds, and avoiding synchronous refresh work during settings presentation.
• Add CrawlBar support for Cloudflare remote crawler archives, including built-in remote status, remote archives, and compressed SQLite cloud publish actions for gitcrawl and discrawl.
• Surface Cloudflare D1/R2 archive status, remote archive metadata, and gzip chunked SQLite bundle details in normalized status JSON and the settings UI.
• Bundle real macOS app icons for GitHub Desktop, Slack, Discord, Notion, WhatsApp, and Granola crawler rows.
• Guard source and packaged brand icon assets in CI so crawler logos cannot regress silently. Thanks @vincentkoc.

CrawlBar v0.2.2

Fixes

• Fix crawler discovery from the macOS app by normalizing PATH with common Homebrew, MacPorts, and user-local CLI locations before resolving or running crawler commands. Thanks @mbelinky.

CrawlBar v0.2.1

Fixes

• Fix packaged app icon loading by resolving the SwiftPM resource bundle from installed app locations and failing packaging when the bundle is missing or empty. Thanks @mbelinky.

CrawlBar v0.2.0

v0.2.0 - 2026-05-20

Changes

• Add the native CrawlBar menu bar app for local-first crawler status, refreshes, logs, settings, and packaged CLI access.
• Add built-in crawler manifests for GitHub, Slack, Discord, Notion, and Granola, with coming-soon entries for Google, WhatsApp, and X.
• Add branded crawler icons, including bundled Google, X, and Granola assets for offline app/package rendering.
• Add crawler detail tabs for Overview, Data, Sync, and Settings, with refresh, archive, binary, snapshot, and config state shown where relevant.
• Add local app packaging through Scripts/package_app.sh, including the CrawlBar.app bundle and embedded crawlbar helper.
• Add Homebrew source-build support for installing the app bundle and CLI together.

Fixes

• Avoid macOS Keychain prompts during read-only status paths.
• Preserve native crawler secret semantics while still allowing CrawlBar-managed secrets to be cleared explicitly.
• Keep all-app query behavior searchable and route SQL/text queries to the right crawler capability.
• Surface crawler action failures instead of hiding them behind stale successful state.
• Normalize GitHub authentication failures as credential problems instead of raw request errors.
• Preserve useful current crawler data when refreshes fail.
• Hide successful exit-0 stdout noise in the latest-run summary.
• Remove window-level tooltips from the main app while keeping menu bar affordances usable.
• Hide empty snapshot remote details and avoid duplicating Data summaries in Overview.
• Show remote crawler stores for GitHub-backed archives.
• Write numeric crawler config values as numbers, fixing Graincrawl desktop-cache recovery after cache-version failures.

Maintenance

• Add SwiftPM CI covering build, selftest, CLI smoke, app packaging, and packaged CLI smoke.
• Add a selftest suite for config normalization, metadata mapping, crawler failure semantics, query routing, and settings behavior.
• Add the control protocol documentation and example manifest for future crawler integrations.