version.txt

Current version 3.14.9

3.14.9  *) @reganface, Updated to work with the new Microsoft Rewards

3.14.8  *) @jbrobst, Fix "no searches found" error when results begin with a definition

3.14.7  *) @amayer5125, Update User Agent Strings

3.14.6  *) @amayer5125, Test For Search And Earn VS PC/Mobile
           New reward type only allows for 15 points mobile and pc combined
           Based on work by: @tsdg112

3.14.5  *) @amayer5125, Bugfix: Live Auth
           Update post fields
           Get PPSX from "t" variable
           Refactor auth redirect page (continue page)

3.14.4  *) @cloudlyfe-aldwin, Add "Earn more credits" as Inform
           Fixes #169

3.14.3  *) @cloudlyfe-aldwin, Fix unquoted variable string comparison bug.
           Variable should be quoted to allow for empty value comparision.

3.14.2  *) @HmmU, @amayer5125, Fixed bingAuth url error

3.14.1  *) @amayer5125, Fix trim Bug.
           Should be .strip()

3.14.0  *) @amayer5125, Revamp Wikipedia Query Generator
           Search raw text instead of html page
               Decrease download size
               Increase parsability
               Respect Wikipedia API rules
           Call correct page for days with single digit
               ie. September_9 vs September_09
               Removes need for http redirect
           Add weight to sections to favor events and holidays over people
           Compile regex
           Search in lowercase (more human like)
           Shuffle parsed search terms to increase entropy

3.13.0  *) @amayer5125, Update User Agents To Latest Versions

3.12.0  *) @amayer5125, Update User Agents To Latest Versions

3.11.0  +) @amayer5125, Add User-Agent Config Support
           Add ua_dektop and ua_mobile tag support in config.xml
           If no ua_(desktop|mobile) is set use random User-Agent from defaults
           Add User-Agent output to verbose output
           Implements enhancement #142

3.10.1  +) @peterdimou, Fix wikipedia generator top-level domain

3.10.0  +) @amayer, Add Auth Check For Terms Of Use Update

3.9.1   *) Add Check To See If Any Search Results Were Returned Before Clicking
           Fixes #132

3.9.0   *) Randomly Open Link After Search Query
           Based heavily on work by @iRobie

3.8.9   *) Authentication script termination fixes
           Preventing the script from terminating if invalid passwords, invalid account names
           and inability to pull lifetime credits (possible ban)

3.8.8   *) Banned account detection
           Fixed a crash when the account is banned. It now results in a warning.

3.8.7   *) Bingbot obfuscation additions

           Added the ability to perform additional searches with salted values.
           config.xml has new variables addSearchesDesktop, addSearchesDesktopSalt, addSearchesMobile,
           and addSearchesMobileSalt to specify the number of extra searches to perform.
           Also increased the time between searches, as with more searches it might be
           better to spread them out more.

3.8.6   *) Adjust Terminal Output To Better Fit 80 Width Terminals

           Change Full Results to Final Results (better spacing)
           Change order of Final Results to group points together
           Make email slot in Final Results larger
           Change requested URL to search string for searches

3.8.5   *) Display Account Information Before Starting Search
           Code writen by: @AuthenticAMD
           Adds enhancement #59 (Display Account Information Differently)

3.8.4   *) @itssasanka, Fixed a small bug that crashed the script when fetching max rewards.

3.8.3   *) @jamre, Added "Invite friends" match
           Follow warn links since many that should be hit are identified as warn

3.8.2   *) @ktp420, Fixed https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/86
           Fixed https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/84
           Fixed PPSX parameter in bingAuth.py

3.8.1   *) @TunaLobster, Fixed https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/79

3.8     *) @sangdrax8, Add googleTrends Query Generator Module
           Generate queries pulled from the current googleTrends results
           supplemented with suggested searches from google.

3.7     *) @amayer5125, Add Wikipedia Query Generator Module
           Generate queries pulled from the current days wikipedia page
           (ie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_14)
           Make Wikipedia Query Generator the default query generator

3.6     *) @amayer5125, Make Query Generators Into Dynamic Modlues
           Move bingQueriesGenerator to queryGenerators folder
           main.py add queryGenerators folder to PATH
           Add <queries> tag to config file
           Modify config.py to read <queries> tag
           Make bingQueriesGenerator dynamic loadable

3.5.10  *) Fixed https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/68
           Credits to @ssgdodd, see
           https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/68#issuecomment-52050514

3.5.9   *) @amayer5125, Remove iPad User Agent From Mobile Agents

        *) Fixed https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/66

3.5.8   *) @TunaLobster, Fixed https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/58

        +) Added logic to check when the dashboard page uses <span> instead of <div>

3.5.7   *) Fixed https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/56

        *) pkg.bingAuth.BingAuth._escapeString() changed perfect match of hex character to
           a regexp.

3.5.6   +) Added retry support for a relatively rare exception

                [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer

           see http://stackoverflow.com/a/20568874/2147244
           for explanation of the problem

        *) Fixed https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/pull/53#issuecomment-46684688
           In this change the escape method is determined automatically. Two are supported:
           'string-escape', 'unicode_escape'

3.5.5   *) @amayer5125, Change escape string type from string-escape to unicode_escape.
           Fixes login issue.
           See https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/52
           and https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/50

3.5.4   *) Fixed https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/49
           Should have been a part of 3.5.3 - commit 6223139

3.5.3   *) Fixed https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/45#issuecomment-45700693
           Two bugs were addressed:
           1. bingAuth - sso is not used any more
           2. bingQueriesGenerator - Bing! spontaneously returns PC style page for mobile
              searches. This fix check for both of them.

3.5.2   *) @JustLikeIcarus Added missing commas to list of mobile user agents

3.5.1   *) Fixed https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/37

3.5     +) Implemented mobile searches as per
           https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/16

           A pair of PC user agent and Mobile user agent for the searches are
           chosen at random for every account

        *) Fixed https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/33

3.4.4   *) Adding support for multiple proxy protocols in config.xml as per
           https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/23#issuecomment-40173913

           Example proxy xml declaration:
           <proxy protocols="http,https" url="218.204.159.45:8123" login="John Smith" password="xxx" />

3.4.3   *) Adding explicit protocol support through config.xml as per
           https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/23#issuecomment-40054238

3.4.2   *) Reverting 3.3.1 change as per
           https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/27

3.4.1   +) Fixed urllib2.build_opener() call as per
           https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/26#issuecomment-40053091

3.4     +) Added authentication support for proxy as per
           https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/26

3.3.2   +) Added explicit urllib2.HTTPSHandler() to urllib2.opener as per
           https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/23#issuecomment-39948409

3.3.1   *) pkg/bingHistory.getBingHistoryTodayURL() is now calculating time in PST time zone.
           The change was made after adding HTTP proxy support as per
           https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/23
           localtime was no longer accurate.

3.3     +) Adding HTTP proxy support as per
           https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/23

           new XML node under <configuration> -> <proxy url="ip:port">. Can be also <proxy url="url:port">

3.2     +) "User-Agent" HTTP header from a predefined list of most commonly used user agents.
           A new user agent is chosen for each account at random. All searches on one account use the same user agent.
           Looks like it solves the problem discussed here https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/17

        *) Changed
           BING_QUERY_SUCCESSFULL_RESULT_MARKER = '<div id="results_container">'
           to
           BING_QUERY_SUCCESSFULL_RESULT_MARKER = '<div id="b_content">'

3.1.6   *) Case insensitive match on flyout strings. Bing! changed "Search and Earn" to "Search and earn"

3.1.5   *) Fixed Live auth. Credits to jbrobst (GitHub). https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/18

3.1.4   *) Fixed a bug in lifetime credits parser. https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/13

3.1.3   *) As per https://github.com/sealemar/BingRewards/issues/13 - Bing! Dashboard HTML was changed. This fix accounts for the change.

3.1.2   *) Increased intervals in config.xml. It looks like Bing! black lists an IP if it abuses with frequent requests.

3.1.1   *) Bing! authentication URL both for LiveId and Facebook now contains escape characters (http:// is http\x3a\x2f\x2f, for example). Those need to be converted back to normal URL. See [http://docs.python.org/2/library/codecs.html#python-specific-encodings]
        +) Script current version date is now outputed with "--version" argument

3.1     +) config.xml - general.betweenAccountsInterval and general.betweenAccountsSalt - time to sleep between two accounts - not to annoy Bing!

3.0.3   *) commenting the referer in BingFlyoutParser, because on 10/25/2013 Bing! started to return an empty flyout page if referer is other than http://www.bing.com

3.0.2   *) the script now looks for default config.xml in the directory where it is located
        *) "pkg" project subfolder is now searched under the script directory

3.0.1   *) pkg/helpers.py - xml.etree.ElementTree.getChildren() -> xml.etree.ElementTree.getchildren()
           typo in method name for Python < 2.7

3.0     +) events support in config.xml to automize retries and notifications based on optional conditions
        +) new section in config.xml - <general betweenQueriesInterval="2.0" betweenQueriesSalt="3.0" />
        +) --version - outputs version information
        +) test/ut_config.py - unit tests config.xml parsing
        *) project's folder structure redesigned:
            /       - main.py and config.xml
            pkg/    - all the rest of the code
            notify/ - notification scripts
            test/   - unit tests
            results/ -> result/ - script results and errors


2.9.1   *) Fixed bug with reporting zero total points

2.9     +) Full report added. Script options [-r, --full-report].
           Report is automatically triggered if more than one account was processed and cumulative points earned was more than zero.

2.8     *) Live auth sso parameter is now not converted to int, because it can be 'false' which is not casted automatically

        +) .gitignore - ignore *.swp which vim spams with


2.7     +) Lifetime Credits output for every account

2.6     *) in case of several accounts and one of the first accounts processing fails with exception, script doesn't crashes, but continues for all of the rest accounts

2.5     *) fixed crash in bingQueriesGenerator.py - changed the format of startMarker and endMarker of newsPage

2.4     +) main.py - total points earned during the session is now printed out when the script finishes

2.3     *) bingQueriesGenerator - changed parsing HTML tag to comply with new Bing! output

2.2     +) bingFlyoutParser now understands descriptions
        +) bingFlyoutParser + Reward.Action.PASS for 'Silver Status' and for 'Get the best of Bing by signing in with Facebook.' description
        +) bingRewards.printResults() now prints errors if verbose mode is off

2.1     +) main.py is now explicitly marked as a python script
        *) chmod 644 bingRewards.py
        *) chmod 755 main.py

2.0     +) Live authentication supported
        *) The script is now executed with
           python main.py
           See `python main.py -h` to understand how the script can be used
        *) Authentication configuration moved to config.xml. No direct script changes to use different account information are needed.
           config.xml accepts Live and Facebook authentication types. Any number of authentications can be added to config.xml.

1.4     Bing! rewards page changed. Bing! flyout is now requested with http://www.bing.com/rewards/dashboard in a Referer header, otherwise it is empty

1.3     Don't raise exception if history page is empty - warn instead.
        added to bingRewards.py:
        from __future__ import with_statement

1.2     Configurable salt to sleep between requests

1.1     Bing! news changed the output format for tag <span class="sn_snip">. This version works both with the former and the latter behavior

1.0     First implementation plus whatever was else before I created this file :)