Efficient Proxy Coding Advice

[Josh 37]

So I'm working on my first public bot that uses proxies. Because people (in general) are stupid I'm trying to make it as mistake proof as possible. I don't need someone to explain to me how to make proxies work. That is easy enough as I have proxies working and changing already.

 

What I'm am hoping to get is some advise on how to implement them efficiently. I understand how to do this, but I think I'm just coding it really inefficiently as the bot is really bogging down as I'm working.

 

This particular part of the bot isn't anything special. It is simply creating hotmail accounts to be used on another part of the bot.

 

If anyone has some advise or code examples it would be greatly appreciated.

[Josh 37]

ok so after hours of coding and recoding I think I have this figured out...

 

loop while($not($exists(<id="idDiv_PWD_UsernameExample">)) AND $comparison($add(#proxy num, 1), "<=", $table total rows(&proxies))) {
    change proxy($table cell(&proxies, #proxy num, 0))
    change browser properties()
    change useragent()
    navigate("http://hotmail.com", "Wait")
    wait complete()
    increment(#proxy num)
    wait(1)
}

If anyone has any thoughts or a better implementation I would be happy to hear it.

 

This is looking to see if the username field does not appear on the page and if the IP number in the table is less than or equal to the total number of proxies. Then it changes the proxy and does the check again.

[AutomationNinja 194]

ui open file("Email File:", #emailfile)
ui text box("Private proxy user name:", #privateproxyusername)
ui text box("Private proxy password", #privateproxypassword)
add item to list(%proxies, $list from file(#emailfile), "Delete", "Global")
clear cookies
set user agent("Internet Explorer 6")
set referrer("https://google.ca")
set proxy credentials(#privateproxyusername, #privateproxypassword)
change proxy($next list item(%proxies))

Edited February 1, 2013 by AutomationNinja

[Josh 37]

ui open file("Email File:", #emailfile)

ui text box("Private proxy user name:", #privateproxyusername)

ui text box("Private proxy password", #privateproxypassword)

add item to list(%proxies, $list from file("C:\\"), "Delete", "Global")

clear cookies

set user agent("Internet Explorer 6")

set referrer("https://google.ca")

set proxy credentials(#privateproxyusername, #privateproxypassword)

change proxy($next list item(%proxies))

well the proxies are stored in a table from another part of the bot and the first part of the proxy changing and credentials setting is done previously. Sorry I didn't mention that above. I was really having a hard time checking proxies and moving on to another if the proxy was bad. I had all kinds of if then commands.

[steelersfan 38]

This is indeed helpful, so by doing it this way, the proxy changing can be triggered by something with loop while?