Help beta test SeoTools 8.0

General
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Alright SeoTools fans! It's time for a new beta!

  • Connectors can now be downloaded and updated through our new Connector Manager. New Connectors will be released continously.
  • Improved UrlEncode, UrlDecode and HtmlEncode to support full unicode character table.
  • Added removeEmptyEntries option to StringJoin.
  • IntelliSense for all SeoTools functions.
  • Spider
    • Fixed memory leak and improved speed.
    • New "Range" mode where you can select list of urls from your workbook.
    • Spider now doesn't crash when finding binary files.
    • Fixed serveral other issues.
    • Spider columns can now return multi-row output. For example XPathOnUrl can now return all the values that matches an xpath.
  • New function:ParseNumber
  • KeywordDensity now handles numbers in the same way as letters.
  • Fixed issue with bulk adding proxies in HttpSettings.
  • Added case sensititive option to RegexFind functions.
  • Fixed problem with UnshortUrl not generating a timeout exception.
  • Optional parameter to control case sensitivity in RegexpFind.
  • All UI is now build for retina displays.
  • In the task pane wizards there's now an utility in the text boxes to select a cell reference.
  • Fixed issues when using Dump and Connectors that return values that begin with '='.
  • Experimental SeoToolsGetConfig and SeoToolsSetConfig functions.

New Connectors:

  • Blocket
  • CoindeskBPI
  • Deepl
  • GooglePlaces
  • HackerTarget
  • IMDB
  • Mixpanel
  • Prisjakt
  • StackOverflow
  • SwedishSynonyms
  • TripAdvisor
  • Upsales
  • Wikitrends
  • Yelp
  • KeywordTool
  • Trello
  • GoogleCalendar

Most of these Connectors you need to Download through the Connector Manager. We only ship with the most common SEO and Social Connectors.

https://links.seotoolsforexcel.com/latestbeta

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Got it!

Thank you sir! Keep up the good work :clap::clap::clap:

EDIT (AGAIN!):
Issues fixed themselves. I must admit I installed another plugin for excel and I think a restart fixed everything. So far so good. I have to use alot of the classic functions with this new version today so I'll report any bugs I run into, if any.

Thanks!

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Great job, guys! This is a huge update and I love the new Connector Manager!

A couple requests for Connector Manager for your next update, please:

  1. Could you have it respect the folder specified by the <Connectors><Path> config setting when downloading new connectors?

  2. When I have an original connector (prior to this release) already in the folder, the Connection Manager throws the following error:
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    This seems to happen whenever the xml file has no BOM, but it occasionally happens even with a BOM.

Here's an example connector that throws the above error:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cjNWcEVEnDjbOW1HovzbPMDJpldZ0zL6

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What is a BOM? Byte order mark?

The manager will only handle connectors in this path:

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If you resuse your old SeoTools.config.xml you might be missing this one. All other paths will be loaded but won't show up in the manager.

Will make a new build and try to add your connector. I think this has been fixed.

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Try http://releases.seotoolsforexcel.com/SeoTools_v8.0.5.0_20180312.zip

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Hi everybody,
another great reöease!

I´ve got two questions:

  1. Could you give us some more details about the "Dump2" function?

  2. Feature idea: What about creating a connector for "de.wiktionary.org" or the dictionary from "canoo.net" ? I´m looking for a way to automaticly classify single terms found in pretty huge keyword phrase sets. Until now I´m creating lookup tables to group phrases using power query. It works but the matching process takes too much time and performance.

Any ideas?

cheers
Sven

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The Dump2 is an experimental Dump version that doesn't rely on comments to remember the size of the last "Dump".

Here's how to request new Connectors https://seotoolsforexcel.com/missing-a-connector/

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I just updated to 8.0 and had to realize that all my settings are gone.

Any way to restore them?

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Sorry to hear that. If you didn't check "Save previous settings" then you need to enter everything again.

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is there any way we can also reinstall the older version? Can I get the older SEO tools version?

This query for facebook stopped working, I have tried to reinstall, etc., a number of times?

=Dump(Connector("Facebook.PageSearch",B2, "PageID,Name",TRUE,1))

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Hi Carl,

Replied to your mail just now. For everyone else noticing the same thing, its because of Facebook limiting the API for both Facebook and Instagram. Have updated the Facebook Connector.