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Hey UBotBuddy, Could you send me a PM I can respond back to, I am not able to for some reason..... I needed to ask you a question about what you offer. Thanks

I'm building a simple bot that fills a form and scrapes the results. There's only one part of it I'm stuck on and I'm wondering if this can be accomplished with ubot. In one of the text boxes on the form, I need to input one day later than the current date and time. The $date function could possibly be used and then added to by a day? If anyone knows how to do this that would be great.

No, but honestly I haven't used ubot to solve any captchas yet. This is a workaround for a totally different program. (Just this little custom program I got from a friend).

Thanks again Botbuddy. Oh, I understand JohnB. Thanks for the tip. This is a workaround solution for me to get another program to solve a captcha that cannot, but it does have an open .bat file command. So I need this other program to open the .bat file which will run the bot, which will in turn decode the captcha so the other program can solve it. So yeah, I need to be able to run the bot without hitting the play button, but only when this other program needs to solve a captcha. Windows Task Scheduler will come in handy for me for sure, as I just found out about some of the stuff I coul

Oh one more question just so I understand correctly. If I opened it with a Batch file, would it override the need to push the play button, or would I need to specify further commands within the Batch file to execute it?

yes yes, that helps very much to know. Thanks a lot! That opens quite a range of new directions I could go with ubot.

I was wondering if anyone knows if this is possible with ubot. I figure it all should be except for maybe one part but figure there may be some sort of workaround for it if not. First the simple part. I just need ubot to load a url from a .txt file and go there. Then find the captcha on the page and solve it with any of the captcha services. But instead of filling out the solved captcha, saving the correct answer to a .txt file. That part should be easy I figure. The other part is what I'm wondering about. Can I run this captcha somehow without having to push the play button? I'm sure I

Your site looks have been hacked!

Normally, if I wanted to try to make a bot, I would just start (trying) to put something together. But with some of the previous feedback I've heard about sites like squidoo and facebook having features on pages that prevent bot automation, I was curious if anyone has successfully made a Google keyword tool bot since they've redone their page layout? I may just jump in and start messing with it but I wanted to see how others have done first as it looks like a page that might have features to prevent bots from using it.

Ok, so I tried to run it the way meter suggested, scraping just the meta description. I ran the bot and tracked it's results, and it got stuck on the 55th url. I think it's made it that far before. I'm still looking for a solution for this issue, so if anybody has any other suggestions about how to solve this problem that would be a big help. I know this software is capable of doing tasks like this without freezing up, because I made a different simple bot that's been running for the last 2 weeks or so non stop without freezing!

Meter, could you be more specific? Should I just try to scrape the meta description and leave off scaping the urls and see if that is what caused the problem?

I have a simple bot I made that scrapes for two pieces of data from every url I add to a list for ubot to navigate to. I'm actually having two issues with this little bot. The first (and my initial reason for posting this) is that every 20th or so url ubot navigates to, it gets stuck on that url and won't continue on to the other thousand or so pages I want it to scrape. Second, it's basically a workaround of what I really want to acclomplish with this tool. One of the pieces of data I'm trying to scrape shows up maybe 50 to 75% of the time in the meta decription of these pages, so I've be

I restarted my computer and it's working fine now. I still not quite sure why it was having that problem but it's fine now.

It says my username:password:agreed

Another thought I had which may be the problem (or maybe not?) could be the fact I bought ubot awile back, then got a refund (because I didn't think I was capable of using it effectively), then bought it again (after learning a bit more about ubot). When I bought it the second time around I was having issues with it due to my old info still being ubot's database, so I couldn't use the program. I'm thinking this could be a possible issue that may have crept back in somehow maybe, or it's at least worth bringing up if it needs to be dealt with.

I have recently added some internet security programs, but I temporarily disabled them and tried again and also added ubot to my program exceptions so it could pass through my firewall but still not working. Any other suggestions? I think I've used it with no problems since I've added the extra security program, so I don't think it's connected to that program blocking it.

Maybe this is an issue I should just contact support about (which I may do if I can't find an answer soon), but my copy of ubot is not connecting to the ubot servers when I start up ubot. My internet connection is obviously working (I'm connected as I write this) so I assume this is a problem on their end. I'm uploading I screen shot of my error message: If anybody knows what I should do (including support) please let me know. Thanks

Thanks, this worked. I'll try using this as a base to work off of. Although there is one thing I was wondering if also happens to you. When I run it it continues on past the three links you put in to test. It goes to a blank page and then gives the same error message. But error message aside it still does what I needed it to, so thanks!

very strange, I thought this must be the problem, but no whitespace at all, not a single space at all in the file I'm using to test this bot. I guess I'll try the stat monitor idea and see if I can find out what's going wrong by using that test.

Okay, I added the commands that lilly suggested, but it still only goes to my .txt file that has the list of url's that I want to go to, and not to the websites themselves. I dunno, maybe there is something I'm just not getting. I'm uploading a screenshot of the progress I've made at this point with this part of the code, the part I'm having problems with. It seems as though ubot doesn't think there is anywhere I've told it to go. The list url's are the places I want ubot to navigate to, and an error message pops up saying I've exceeded the range of my list, but it hasn't gone to a url y

Thanks for your response lilly. I haven't yet added the changes you've suggested to my bot, but the picture I'm uploading now is as far as I've got so far. Everything after this image is the scraping and saving to a file part, which seems to be working alright for me, it's just this first part that I'm stuck on. What you wrote in your response makes sence, I'll try that and see if that works.

Oops, new response as I was typing.... I'll check that.

JohnB, That is correct. That's what I'm trying to do. I just now created the example in the picture you uploaded, and ubot navigated to my text file with the url's I wanted it to go to, but it didn't go to them after that. Does this need to go inside of a loop as well? I put this in at the top where I would normally add a single url if I were just going to one url and scraping that like in my example. Maybe there was a command left out that would actually navigate to that next page in the list? The file that I want ubot to navigate to is just a .txt file with url's, one by one, and

I'm in the process of creating a little bot for myself to go out and scrape pages and save the url's to a .txt file. I can get it to scrape the pages and save the url's so I've got that part figured out. I can navigate to a specific url, but I want to be able to load multiple url's to navigate to and then do the scraping. (An example of this would be I loaded the list of url's and it navigated to the page and did the scrape on one page, than did this all over again for the second url on the list, and so on.) whether I paste the list of url's to navigate to into a text box or load them

thanks a bunch, pftg4. pm sent.