[How to create loop until specific success message is detected on the page?]

Thank you for the reply. In my case, the captcha is present on every page, even if a user isn't logged in. It's always there, even when it isn't meant to be used. It may make more sense for me to search for the success element, as it is the only thing that differentiates success (or error) from a normal page. Any advice on how to find that specific text on the screen and if not, go thru the loop again? It would be good to limit this to 5 tries or so, then move on. 

 

As I mentioned earlier, I would also need to include code that can detect if the submit button isn't working (after captcha is solved), in which case I'd need to reload the page and start over. 

 

Thanks. 

[How to create loop until specific success message is detected on the page?]

I wrote a newbie-quality bot that needs to be improved, but I don't know how to do it.

 

Many times, there are errors preventing a successful submission. Either the page code didn't load properly and the "submit" button is dead (nothing happens when it's clicked, it's dead, but a reload fixes this), or the captcha will be entered wrong causing a submission error. Either way, the the script will click submit and move on to the next log in, not knowing if the submit button didn't do anything, or if the captcha was wrong.

 

If the submit button did in fact work, the page will reload with either an error or success message (based on the captcha being accurate or not). Either way, the bot will continue on, logging out as the current user, then logging in as the next user.

 

If the submit button didn't work, or if the captcha was entered wrong, the submission is never counted and the bot continues (I have to pause my bot, manually reload the page, make my selection enter the captcha, and click submit manually, and then resume the bot).

 

I would like to figure out a way to make my bot smarter, whereby it first detects (maybe by a timeout) if the submit button doesn't work and the page didn't reload with a status message, in which case it will manually reload and reselect, reenter captcha, and click submit again. If the submit button did work, the bot would need to read the red text status message after submit is clicked to determine if the submission was done correctly ("thank you...") or incorrectly ("please re enter the captcha..."). If the success message appears, proceed as normal. If the error message appears, redo the selection, captcha and submission and try to get a success message again. repeat. 

 

Any ideas on how to do this properly? I understand the basics of ubot, but not enough to know how to build this.

 

Thank you!

[How to set loop cycles to number of items in my list?]

Thanks, worked perfectly.

[How to set loop cycles to number of items in my list?]

Instead of setting the loop cycles value manually to the number of rows in my txt file, how can I have it first check the text file for the number of rows, and then set itself to that?

 

thanks!

[Weird bot behavior after adding proxies to the mix]

Hi Eddie,

 

yes, that's precisely what I'm saying.

 

 

In regards to your edit, are you saying that if you use the change proxy command and then navigate to the website, some of the buttons are unresponsive just clicking them in the browser?

[Weird bot behavior after adding proxies to the mix]

I'm still trying to figure this out. I notice that when I"m using a proxy, many of the links on the page still work (like main navigation, etc.), but the form related buttons don't.

 

What could the use of a proxy actually be changing to make these buttons stop being responsive?

[Weird bot behavior after adding proxies to the mix]

every time there's an update, I get it. Still having issues. It's so darn frustrating since there's no obvious solution. Man, the hours I've wasted... wish i could get them back, and I wish i could get my bot working. I'm kind of at a standstill.

 

I had a lot of problems with proxies. Browser lockups when using proxies, paid proxies not working, and slow downs when using proxies. I haven't been coding ubot for almost a month, so I am not sure if it still does that, but I had those issues with earlier versions of v4. I noticed some update notes that mentioned proxy support and stability, so it may be better.

[Weird bot behavior after adding proxies to the mix]

I'm using version 4, Standard edition.

 

 

WHat version of Ubot Studio are you using??

[Weird bot behavior after adding proxies to the mix]

so i have a bot that works perfectly. It is managing some logins, captchas, and then a submission.

 

I decided to add proxy support, following the tutorial. The proxy portion works great.

 

However, once I added proxy support, the bot starts acting weird. It works in the builder, but once I compile, it doesn't. For example, it will get the proxy from the list, change the proxy, and then load the page. No problem. Next it populates the email address and password fields, as it should. But then it skips the clicking of the submit button, and then wants to skip other steps and not follow my timeline.

 

I've spent 15+ hours trying to figure this out and I'm out of patience. What could adding the proxy support be doing to my script to throw it off? Or could this be a weird behavior exhibited from the actual target website?

 

I'm using ProxyBonanza.com, with IP authentication - it works great.

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

EDIT: I'm playing with my compiled bot and I see that when I"m using a proxy, many of the buttons/links on the target page are unresponsive. When I'm not using the proxy, they work fine. This is a US-based proxy, in fact, it's in the same city where I am, so I doubt it's being deliberately blocked. What else could cause this behavior?

[My first bot, using a loop, need some help.]

thanks for that, BotBuddy. I'll check it out later tonight. Appreciate the help.

[My first bot, using a loop, need some help.]

I'm using a loop to submit a web form, and have some questions:

 

1. The final instruction sets a delay of 10 seconds. I wanted to replace that with a random delay of between 10 seconds and 100 seconds. So I used $rand and set the min to 10 and max to 100. When i run my script, however, it stops at this delay instruction, and never proceeds past it. Am I doing something wrong?

 

2. One of the form fields is an email address, so before the loop begins, I set $domain to yahoo.com, and then at the "fill field" step, I generate a username at $omain. I want to rotate through a series of domains (i.e. gmail, hotmail, aol, etc.), but I don't know how to add this into my loop. Any advice?

 

3. Can anyone suggest an easy-to-implement way to add a counter that UBot can automatically increment each time it loops back to restart the process? I know I can set the number of cycles, but I'd like to be able to keep a cumulative count when the process is stopped or restarted/reset the next day.

 

Thanks to everyone in advance. I really appreciate the help.

 

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