WebGrab+Plus

Dear users of Webgrab+Plus and visitors of this website

around May 20 this website was attacked by a trojan horse exploiting a backdoor in our web platform Drupal. Too late we were informed about this vulnerability of Drupal. See https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/security/your-drupal-site-got-hacked... . The consequences were fatal. The trojan was able to invite 16 viruses at the moment we (Paul in fact) started to investigate cause and remedy.

Visitors of this website around and shortly after that date were redirected to obscure and mostly fake websites some of them with click bait buttons or other tricks to lure visitors into malware.
For some time Paul tried to clean the website with a regular virusscanner. It appeared not very effective, the trojan fought back by reinstalling the viruses we just removed and installing new ones. At some point there were 100 or more infected files? Shortly after, on May 22, when it became clear that the site could not be kept online, we decided to shutdown and issue 'website on maintenance'.

That was nearly the final...

Another year has nearly passed. Today is is good moment to wish our team members, supporters and users all the best for the coming year.
Lets start with the positive facts:
- WG++, short for WebGrab+Plus, continues to be very popular worldwide. Without doubt the most versatile and most used EPG grabber in the world. It grabs epg data from more than 500 sites in 88 countries. And .. it is an integral part of several third party PVR systems.

What happened in 2017, some highlights:
- This website is visited by around 500 users daily, totaling to about 200.000!
- Nearly 80.000 downloads of the program and the siteini's
- More than 140 SiteIni updates were completed in 2017.
- 2 Major and 12 Beta releases of the program
- new improved installer with V2.0
- About 3300 registered users

Support and maintenance:
A small group of 'super-users' has taken the daily task to assist troubled users and develope necessary SiteIni updates. I like to mention and thank the most prominent and active 'super-users' by name :...

New edition V2.1 of the manual. Reflects V2.1.1 of the program
Explains how to add xmltv attributes , a new feature of the program.
And, of course, a number of smaller changes and additions listed on page 2.
​Warning ... Serious reading, be careful ! 

SiteIniIDE is a portable IDE created to simple create/debug/edit siteini file setups. With a few shortcuts in the IDE, you can quickly create new siteini's. Just run WG++IDE.exe.

Check the readme.txt file for more info.

A set of configuration file (WebGrab++.config.documented.xml, mdb.config.documented.xml and rex.config.documented.xml) which include an explanation of the content.

June 2024 : rewrite of rex.config.documented.xml and mdb.config.documented.xml WG++ 5.2, PostProcess 3.3
- numerous changes and additions , mainly in the 'allocation/presentation settings
- added AP-lines.examples.txt

update of containing files