Steps to Install and Uninstall FMiner

 

FMiner does not bundle with any other programs , and can be uninstalled completely.

 

Windows (Pro/Basic Editon)

Install:

1. Go to Here, select edtion you need and download the installation package.

2. Click the package, follow the instructions in the installation wizard to finish installation.

Uninstall:

1. Click "uninstall" in the menu of FMiner to uninstall FMiner completely.

 

Mac OS X(Mac Edition)

Install:

1. Download the installation package from Here. You must choice Mac OS Edtion.

2. Open the package file.

3. Drag "FMiner" to "Applications" folder.

Uninstall:

1. Drag "FMiner" to "recycle bin" will uninstall FMiner complately.

 

 



FMiner Documentation

  1. Getting Started
    1. Overview
    2. Interface
    3. Beginner's Tutorial 1
  2. Design Macro
    1. Record Actions
    2. Add/Remove/Change Actions
    3. Step/Run to
    4. Inspector[View Page Code]
    5. Change XPath[Select Targets Correctly]
  3. Details of Actions
    1. Actions Connections and Execution Flow[Loop, Judge]
    2. Common Attributes of Actions[XPath, Data, Before do Action]
    3. Goto[Batch Add URLs]
    4. Open Link(s)[Recursively]
    5. Open More Link(s)
    6. Multiple Threads(Browsers)
    7. Scrape Page
    8. Capture Content
    9. Wait, Fill, Click, Check, Choose, Select, Scroll Down
    10. Run Code
    11. Scrape Target Count
    12. Validate
    13. Log
    14. Run Javascript in Browser
    15. Clear Cookies
    16. goback
    17. Get/Input Captcha[Appear Randomly]
  4. Data Manipulation
    1. Export format
    2. Data Table
    3. Inputting Data/Variables
    4. Download Files from URLs in Data Table
  5. Execution
    1. Logs
    2. Running Statistics[Handle Error Links]
    3. Execute Externally[Command-line Parameters]
    4. Run Settings[Clear Tables Before Run, Traverse Table Rows, Report After Run]
    5. Scheduler
  6. Settings
    1. General[Timeout, Interval, Threads Count]
    2. Scraping Settings
    3. Anonymity[Proxies, Captcha, Useragent]
  7. Others
  8. HOWTOs
    1. Install/Uninstall
    2. Relate tables with "Item Unique attribute(name, ID...)" or "URL" and "parent URL"
    3. Optimize execution speed
    4. How to judge it got last page when loop clicking "next" button or recursively opening "next" link
    5. How to select a range of targets
    6. How to scrape rows from a table
    7. How to adjust project when pages changed
    8. How to traverse and choice "option" in "select" control on pages
    9. How to scrape full Ajax site without link
  9. Frequently Asked Questions
    1. "Fminer cannot be opened because it is from an unverified developer" on Mac OS
    2. Scrape Pages Without "next link"
    3. Failed loading page (Protocol "javascript" is unknown)
    4. Pages can't load correctly
    5. Export data fail -13Permission denied
    6. Can't select target that contain "&nbsp" by "with text..."
    7. How to go back in browser
    8. Run project with login actions, it will fail when logged in
    9. I scraped X records, but export more data
    10. Firing a keyboard event
    11. Monitor execution for scraping big site
    12. Trial expired in 15 days or on full licensed computer
    13. Move license to another computer