1.2.360 - https/tls support in Node.js modules, scraping Yandex mobile output, 2 new scrapers

In the outgoing year, one of the priority areas was the development of JavaScript scrapers and functionality for working with Node.js. One of the final stages was this release, in which the long-awaited support for https/tls in Node.js modules was implemented. Efforts have also focused on increasing stability and performance. As a result, a lot of developments have been made, which in the first half of 2019 are planned to be released as a new A-Parser 2.0, where there will be many new and cool features

A-Parser team wishes you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We wish you success in business, profitable projects and bright ideas. Let the New Year 2019 be a year of new opportunities, all plans come true, and the work brings pleasure!
Thank you for being with us!!!


In the New Year's release, besides the snowman , the following was done:
Improvements

• Added support for https/tls in Node.js modules, which allows using all modules that work with API via https, as well as TLSSocket (smtp, etc.)
• Completely rewritten and updated SE::Yandex, added the ability to scrape mobile output, and also significantly increased performance
• Added position scraper in Bing: SE::Bing::Position
• Added scraper Util::YandexRecognize, allowing to solve captcha without using third-party services
• Improved mail scraping in HTML::EmailExtractor
• Improved work of the Dynamic threads limit option
• In SE::Yandex using a proxy to download captcha images is now determined by the Use proxy parameter of the Yandex scraper
• Due to irrelevance removed SE::Bing::AddURL, Rank::OpenSiteExplorer and Rank::OpenSiteExplorer::Extended

Corrections due to changes in the issuance

• In SE::Google::Modern fixed detection of misspelling
• In GooglePlay::Apps fixed passage through pages
• SE::Dogpile, SE::Dogpile::Images, SE::DuckDuckGo

Corrections

• Fixed Safe search in SE::DuckDuckGo::Images
• Fixed crashes when working with SE::DuckDuckGo::Images
• Fixed bug when working with the module mysql2 version over 1.5.3
• Fixed scraping the number of results in SE::Yandex