arunner26
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Tish,
You may want to write all your own code; but if you want done for you source code that you can learn from, check out Nick's Craigslist Scraper Source Code here:
I have learned a lot from Nick.
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The Fixer,
I think from what you have posted here that you are going to get a list of files to download by scraping a page with the file names and putting them in a UBOT list.
You will then need to write a UBOT loop command and the set command I wrote about above will be in the loop but instead of using the literal "file123.txt" it will use an entry from that list you scraped.
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Thank you a2mateit. One more question. Since each file name is different, how do I get the download file command to save the name of the file under the name of each individual file instead of using one file name as per your suggestion above?
Thanks,
set(#filename, "File123.txt", "Global")
download file($next list item(%urj), "{$special folder("Application")}/Your Folder Here/{#filename}")
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uniquebot,
The $6,000 job I am working on includes a variety of programming tools.
It includes a Wordpress based website, also a sub-directory site were I used PHP Generator For MySQL to create as well as custom PHP pages.
There is MySQL database where I used SQL Maestro for My SQL - probably about 25 tables now
- 3 main sources of data now at about 3 million rows - our goal is joining the three sources to sell the data result (i.e. leads in a particular industry)
I have build two major MS SQL SSIS packages (my specialty) that do the heavy lifting to download and update the data in the database daily.
In the process of building the website I have written three UBOT programs mainly indexing the data in the sites to see what the record counts will be for estimating.
I really have not used UBOT as much on this project as I expected after finding out that 2 of the three sites have download files available for daily updates and SSIS is really good for that.
So UBOT is a tool in my tool bag and I expect it will see a lot of use in the future as I get more comfortable with it. I have a couple projects I want to use it for but no time right now.
I charge $50 per hour for my time which I think is cheap; but it is OK since this is all extra money since I have a full time job too.
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I will try to ask the support team, but I don't understand where and how to do that...
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If you bid the job as hourly then I would bill for the research time (within reason). On the other hand, a fixed price quote would not change. It's just a matter of communicating clearly with the customer ahead of time.Yea, but i don't do big projects. Most of the time i can code this bots in hour or two. unless i hit something that i cant handle then i need to spend time to research. So im not sure if that time to research is included in price.
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mamica,
Your question: What if customer don't want to pay more? They can find someone else and waste their time. If no one wants to do it for their price they will come back to you.
Your question: What if they want to overpay? Take the money in case you under estimated the time. If you were right on with your estimate then give them some unexpected features.
Also I make it a practice on larger projects to offer to the prospect that I write a detailed design document (including a quote) that they can use to shop around for a price from others.
I usually charge them $500 for the design document and that way if I don't get a custom programming sale I at least get the $500. You can offer to credit the $500 if you get the big job (or not).
Right now I am working on a project like that and my design document was $500 and I quoted $20,000 for everything. He was floored by the proposal. So I scaled back his list of everything he ever wanted.
The scaled down second proposal I made was $8000 for three phases. $6,000 phase I, and $1,000 each for phase II and II. We are near the end of phase I and phase II and II may change based on what we learned in phase I.
Bottom line, near give away your time at an unreasonably low price.
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zenos,
I would open tickets with UBOT support on both issues since I really think they want to make version 5.5 a success.
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The Fixer,
I wish I had an answer for you but I have not sold any of my products through affiliates.
I've been an affiliate on both Clickbank and JVZOO and each seems to have software and websites that work to process sales and payments.
That said, the effort that I have put into trying to sell products as an affiliate through the two sites (which has been considerable) has not resulted in significant sales or profit.
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The Fixer,
You can do what ever you want. You can pay them a one time payment or a recurring payment.
If you were the affiliate, which one would you want to receive?
I'm am an affiliate for JUSTHOST and they pay me a one time fee of $60 which can be more than the customer's first payment but I get no recurring payments. I'd rather have a recurring payment but either type is good.
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UBOT support is good about providing the correct place to get download files like that.
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I'm in the group who had their updates on version 5 run out before ever really using version 5.
So before I pay for updates I want to hear that version 5.5+ is commercial product ready.
Once I hear that I will be anxious to start using it; but for now I remain on version 4.
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mobileconsultant,
Thanks for the info on SQLite. That helps!
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botoballs,
I really like Nike's training course on REGEX and his software to build expressions, check it out here:
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You are welcome!!
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mamica,
If you need it in the future, I got this link from UBOT support for downloading a copy of UBOT 4.
www.ubotstudio.com/files/ubot%20studio/v4.2.20/setup.exe
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Team_LX,
When asking about a product a good source of information to start asking is the developer or in this case Microsoft.
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pash,
Nice plugin, thanks.
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Yes, thanks Nick!!
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cujo56,
Good to know, thanks.
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I want it to click something that might not exist on the page
loop -> navigate page -> click element <onclick="Whatever.close(*, =<50000);"> -> repeat
I understand. So if you use the method I described, it will determine if it exists and if it exists you call the define which would go back to the found onclick and click it.
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From what you are describing, I would be tempted to load all the onclick= commands you find on the page into a UBOT list.
Then I would loop thru the list,
parse out the numbers to a table with two columns,
then loop thru the table checking each row with an IF statement to see if it is what I am looking for
and if one is found then call a define to do something with it.
Bots that create several authority sites
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Great idea, good luck with it!!