Jeff

I actually already thought of trying to do that, but I couldn't figure out how to scrape one of the other comments and the name of the commenter!! Do you know how to do this, say on a wordpress blog?! If so I would greatly appreciate a point in the right direction... Thanks man

James - THIS is what I was looking for the whole time. Thanks for the tip, this is the way to get this thing to work without it getting halted by an error every time. There are a lot of issues so far that I've been able to overcome and when I'm done, I'm going to share them right here. When given a list of wordpress blogs, my bot can step through them one at a time and comment all day long, mixing it up in all sorts of ways. The tricky part is getting a list of blogs who's platforms are consistent with one another (e.g. all wordpress, or all blogger etc. etc.). Also, another ti

The only way I can seem to distinguish between the different "Leave a Comment" "* Comments" "Comments *" etc. possibilities is to use Choose By Attribute. The problem is that I can't use Choose By Attribute in my qualifier field of the IF statement. So I guess my question is, how am I to ever try one thing after another by nesting IF statements if I can't use the choose by attribute as a qualifier? Of course I could delete the qualifier place holder and just stick a Choose By Attribute in its place, but I don't think that will work. I know this is probably a disconnect in my knowledge l

Abs - Thanks for taking the time to write out this comment, I really appreciate it. I'll be back in here to provide updates on my progress for anyone who is interested.

Frank, quick question for you. You said that if the field I'm searching for doesn't exist on the page, it will not affect anything. I'm having unpleasant results in regards to this when having a bunch of "choose by attributes" one after another, looking for different links on the page that either say "leave a comment", "# comments", or "comments #", to click on. So each of my "choose by attributes" I put in a row go like this: Choose by attribute (outer html) "<A class=comment-link onclick=""href="*">* comments</A>" wildcards Choose by attribute (inner text) "Leave a commen

I've drawn out the whole process on paper and planned each individual smaller subroutine. So I've got a good plan. But I've never thought about it like you just said, just firing at several and hoping that I have a good percentage that hit. I think that will be much easier than trying to have a portion of the bot be a quite sophisticated "decision maker". Thanks for the tips, I think I'm going to implement this. Has anyone else out there made something like this?

Hey Ubotters - My Goal: Okay, so I'm working on a bot that will troll around blogs all day long dropping comments for me. Here is the process I'm working with so far: My Routine: 1) Subroutine 1: Visit google blogsearch & parse out a large list of keyword related blogs for commenting on. (Thanks to JohnB with help on this) 2) Subroutine 2: Visit each individual blog URL and determine whether or not it knows how to comment here. If so go to step 3, otherwise loop to next URL. 3) Subroutine 3: If there are comments, copy the most recent users comment and name and make the same c

You. Are. My. Hero. Thank you so much!

Or if anyone knows a dependable source where I can scrape an exhaustive list of active wordpress blogs for any given keyword or niche...that would be baller as well.

Hey everyone, here is my issue: I'm trying to scrape Google Blogsearch: http://blogsearch.google.com/. First, I navigate to that page, then type in what blogs I'm looking for and perform the search. Then, I want to scrape all of the urls from the 10 results returned. The problem is that when you do the search for related blogs, the only url that I'm able to get a scrape on is the green colored one that appears below each result. Within this url, Google inserts <b> and </b> tags to bold the word in the url that matches your search. Because I want to then visit each url, I can

Thanks to everyone who helped me look into this problem! Super Dave - I used this code to check whether or not the user agent was changing and it indeed WAS! Meter - The script works great. The problem was with the caching of the user agent by browser within UBot, so I couldn't notice the change even though it was happening. For anyone else who is experiencing a problem with this script not changing your user agent, upload the code above to a directory on your server somewhere and navigate to that location after running the change user agent script, if it changes, you have succeeded.

Thanks for looking into it for me, I really appreciate it. I'm going to use that script just posted and see if the user agent is changing or not. I'll get to that tonight and bring back my findings

That's actually a great question. I'm not sure how to check whether it is or isn't. Does anyone out there know if UBot caches the page? If it does, do you know a way I can check to see if my user agent has changed or not after the execution of the shell script? - Jeff

Yes, I've attached a screenshot of the console window so you can see it. After the execution of the shell script, I then navigate back to http://whatsmyuseragent.com in order to see if the user agent changed to the new one or not and it remains the same. Thanks a million for looking into this for me Console Window:

Windows 7, The path I'm using to call the ChangeUserAgent.exe is the full path from the drive to the directory where it is located.

Has this script actually worked for anyone else? I haven't been able to get it to successfully change the user agent and I've been at it for hours. I execute all of the commands given above, with the ChangeUserAgent.exe file in both the directory that the bot is in, and the directory where ubotdevtool.exe is located. (even tho it doesn't matter because I navigated to the ChangeUserAgent.exe in the shell command). All of my variables are populated, then I revisit the whatsmyuseragent.com via the navigate command, and it is still the same. I've tried this as a script call, a rub sub, and ev

I went ahead and navigated to the create yahoo account page via the home page. I did this manually inside of the UBot Development Studio, and once the "New here? Sign Up" button is clicked, that same error pops up. I decided to try just navigating to that url abs just suggested and it worked! I'm not sure what the problem was, but figuring out what the problem was might unveil a unique bug. The url that I can navigate to directly without this actionscript error is https://edit.yahoo.com/registration - Jeff

Thanks Lily, I'll give this a shot first thing in the morning and report back to this thread to let everyone know if that solved it. My flash version is 10, do you think that is too new? I wouldn't have expected flash to cause a null object reference.

Okay so I read through all of the threads related to creating yahoo email accounts as I could find before making this thread. I can't find any instances of this problem relating to yahoo email creation. Goal: Create Yahoo Email Account. Problem: When the bot first visits the mail.yahoo.com url and navigates by clicking on "Create New Account" then next page loads and then the attached ActionScript Error pops up. I don't know why. I've tried putting in extra delays and clearing cookies. It only works if I close the bot and then re-open it... Attached: 1) The button I'm clicking 2) My

This worked! Thank you

I feel sort of stupid for asking this because its a simple question and I don't see anyone else asking it... I made a bot that loops forever and will always be updating something for me. I want to execute this bot and then have it start running until I close it. However, I have to click the .exe, then I have to click the play button to start the bot. Is there a way to bypass this clicking of the play button? Is there a way to call and start this bot via another bot? Moral of the story, I wanna automate the entire thing. I wanna execute the script with a cron job, but I can't be here

Thank you BotBuddy, I appreciate the response. So basically what you are saying is that you are always changing out your proxies before navigating to a page? I suppose this means I need to get myself a nice list of proxies to use Would anyone happen to know if there are any pre-compiled bots laying around for download here that would be useful to use as procedure references? Thanks

Hey Gang, I purchased UBot a few days ago to help with automating some of my link building for clients. I've almost completed the tutorial series and have read several dozen threads so far to get started. The first bot I will be building will attempt to recieve a list of urls to promote, with a few keywords, then go out and create accounts on 100 social networks, and report success and failure for each. I think this will be quite a time saver (obv)! I have a good deal of programming experience and I don't think this should be too difficult to achieve using UBot. However, I don't know a