• Self-service history pulls: capture your own CATS work history and assignment details straight from the terminal, with a Fast or In-depth option.
• Screenshots: each capture now saves a picture of every CATS screen (including crew / PSTS17B screens) privately to your account, alongside the text, so you have a visual record.
• Faster, more reliable pulls: they now page through your whole selected date range, continue the instant each screen finishes loading, and resume where they left off instead of restarting. Live counts (Added / Skipped / Dupes / Errors)
show progress as it runs.
• Better session recovery: if the CATS session drops during a long run, the scraper reloads and signs back in quickly instead of stalling.
• Reworked controls: open or close the scraper from the toolbar icon (Widget / Sidebar / Off), plus a small reopen dot on the CATS screen, a cleaner in-screen widget, and a tidier Action menu.
• Smarter navigation: reads CATS's own on-screen status messages (end of file, record not available, and more) to move through screens accurately, plus support for the new CATS host.
• Numerous reliability and bug fixes.

After updating, reload the extension and re-run your pull.

This update improves reliability and tidies up the in-app dialogs:

• Firefox stability: if your CATS session drops in the middle of a scrape, the terminal's own "Session closed" pop-up no longer freezes the scraper. It now logs back in and continues on its own.

• The scraper's own questions and confirmations (such as "Scrape all road members", "Discover trips", "Employee history query", and starting a scrape) now appear inside the scraper panel instead of as browser pop-ups labelled with the CATS site address. Same prompts and answers, just part of the tool now.

This brings the MealCalc scraper up to date with the current release. The app was renamed from MealCalc to TicketForge: mealcalc.tech now redirects to ticketforge.ca, and you sign in with the same account.

Included since the older version:
- CN CATS ticket scraping with automatic upload to your account
- CPKC terminal support
- A floating F1 to F12 key bar and clickable menu overlays on the terminal
- Numerous reliability and session-recovery fixes

You may see a banner in the panel suggesting you reinstall from the main "TicketForge CATS Scraper" listing. That is optional, but it points future updates at the current listing.

v2.1.52 — Settings shortcut.

The login / credentials settings page (PSTS Employee ID, PIN, VPN password) used to be reachable only through right-click on the toolbar icon, or through a gear button in CN's F-key bar. CPKC users had no obvious way to find it.

This version adds two shortcuts to that same settings page:
• A small ⚙ button in the panel header, between the Help button and the minimize button. Visible on both CN and CPKC.
• A "⚙ Settings (login info)" button in the toolbar popup, below "Reset Widget".

No change to what's stored or how it's stored, just easier to find.

v2.1.51 — Republished build of the v2.1.51 source under this legacy listing.

Fix in this version: when a scrape finished, the "View ticket browser →" link in the end-of-scrape summary always opened the current calendar year instead of the year you actually scraped. Now the link carries the scraped year through.

Heads up: this is the legacy MealCalc-branded listing. The active development listing has moved to the new TicketForge name and you're encouraged to switch over when convenient. The extension shows an in-app banner walking you through the one-time reinstall.

v2.1.47 brings this listing up to parity with the current TicketForge CATS and CMA Scraper extension. The two listings are being consolidated -- when convenient, please install "TicketForge CATS and CMA Scraper" from AMO and uninstall this one. The extension shows a one-time banner inside the floating panel with a direct link to the new listing. Nothing breaks if you stay here for now: same scraping functionality, same permissions, same data handling. Update is recommended.

v1.9.9.7
- Cosmetic admin log fix. The [X/Y] ticket progress counter now stays in sync during verification catchup. Previously, when bulk Phase B broke out early and targeted mode picked up the missed tickets, the counter would reset to [1/Y] and then the timeslip-search fallback would freeze at whatever the last bulk index was. No scrape data was affected (trips, meals, and ticket counts were always correct), only the admin activity log display was confusing during audits.

v1.9.9.6
- Fixed a screen-advance race in Phase B. The scraper would sometimes press F10 to move to the next ticket, read the screen before PSTS had actually re-rendered, and upload the previous ticket a second time. This showed up as repeated rows in the scrape log, or on a re-scrape of an already-populated year, a flood of blank "non-working" entries. The scraper now verifies the screen text actually changed before processing the next ticket, retries a few times on a stale read, and skips forward to the next page if it truly cannot advance. No data was being corrupted before (server dedup caught every doubled write), but scrapes were doing 2x server work on re-runs and the activity log was 2-4x noisier.

v1.9.9.5
- Fixed a race where fast-clicking Start (or having two panels both fire Start) could spawn two parallel scrape loops on the same PSTS tab. Every ticket was getting uploaded twice. Server dedup caught the writes so no data was corrupted, but scrapes were doing 2x the server work. The scrape slot is now claimed atomically before any async work, so the second click gets a clean "already scraping" rejection.

v1.9.9.4
- Fixed live scrape progress counters that were stuck on 0 in the status widget
- Tightened train-ID parser to reject malformed short tokens (e.g. "N3", "N6") that were showing up as bad rows in the skipped list
- Cleaner handling of CSRF token sync when the server rotates your session mid-scrape (e.g. after logging into mealcalc.tech in another tab) — the extension now silently re-syncs instead of logging a warning

v1.9.9.3 — Bug fix

Fixed: on the CATS login screen, the floating F-key bar could cover
error messages (e.g. "Invalid password") that appear above the OK
button. The bar is now anchored to the top of the OK button on every
screen, so it stays low on the page and any prompts or error messages
above the OK button row remain fully visible.

v1.9.9.2

• Clickable numbered options: tap any menu option on the PSTS terminal (e.g. "001 ENGINE SERVICE") to navigate directly — no typing required. Works on the main menu and sub-screens. Mobile-friendly.
• F-key bar can now toggle the scraper panel open/closed.
• Options page: added a Back button for easier navigation.

Improved stability and crash recovery, cleaner interface, bug fixes

v1.9.8.1 - Resilience Update

• Adaptive throttling: scraper automatically slows down when the terminal is under stress, speeds back up when healthy
• Graduated recovery: 6-tier recovery system (wait, retry, F3, tab reload, terminal restart) instead of giving up after 2 bad screens
• Resume button: pick up where you left off after any failure
• Page load detection: waits for the page to fully load before retrying, preventing false crash detection
• Cleaner log output with styled scrollbar
• Bug fixes and stability improvements