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Im posting to craigslist, sometimes it takes you to a captcha page, sometimes a phone number pages and other times an email verification page. It isnt really predictable, so far I have set up the define command and inside of them put if commands for when the dynamic page pops up. Is having three define commands that contain if commands in a row ok?

I have a page that seems more random that I would like. Should I chain 4 or 5 if nodes together? Should I define them first? how should i approach this?

I think that their is plenty of coverage of what ubot does and what most functions do. I have been using it for over a month now and have found that all of the information is fragmented, so many tutorials but no way to find them. I think it we had a wiki it would really bring things together, and we would see less threads like this one.

what I have now connect to the mail server create table from emails table named &table display HTML &table Then I scrape the page for the URL that I want. It works rather well so far. Im not sure how to delete the emails once I am done though. Im working on that now.

How do I scrape the specific URL that I am looking for since it would be in one of 6 or 7 emails in the inbox?

I am using ubot with dial up ...so I expect it to be slower, but in this attached example it doesnt work at all. Am I doing something wrong? How can this be fixed? http://screencast.com/t/fxc3EBk7t

Is it possible to scrape the URL and navigate to it? I do not want it to click on it in the background where I do not know what is going on.

I use a different system but I have problems all of the time with pages loading and timeouts. I have ended up using firefox for more of my needs.

Craigslist use an add / edit images button that opens up several other buttons. I do not think that this is java but im not sure exactly. Loading images has been hit or miss for me, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. Should I load the images from a list and include the path?

I think that I have a tool in mind that can do that, thanks!

How else could I send an email?

Im user send email, how do I tell it what port?

Im not able to send via gmail, Im getting this error.

Yea, there are dozens of variables when it comes to craigslist. I just want to make sure that I have all of the covered with ubot.

thanks JohnB for all the advice! Now, when can I expect this to be fixed? http://ubotstudio.com/forum/index.php?/topic/8572-set-referer-browser-eror-4089/page__p__43669__hl__%2Bset+%2Breferrer__fromsearch__1#entry43669

I will want to set the referrer after I have cleared cookies correct?

I use a something similar to a VPN for my posting and Im going to assume that we should stay on the topic of ubot. How do I set up a referer? I typically navigate to the login page, then navigate to the city page accounts.craigslist.org orangecounty.craigslist.org Where do I want the referer? Before I navigate to the account and then again before I navigate to the city?

What about setting the http referer? Is that also done before I navigate?

When do I set the user agent in a script? Before I flush cookies? Before I go into my loop?

As Im sure everyone knows craigslist is a beast. Their are several ways that ads can be taken down by craigslist, some ways the system takes them down, other ways it is by the users. What is happening to me is that I am getting the flagged removed message before the ads are live. So the system is flagging the ads since I am some how setting off a trigger. I want to make sure that I am doing everything possible with ubot to cover my tracks.

Im posting to craigslist with ubot, as Im sure everyone knows craigslist a beast. I think that I have everything right to clear my tracks, see this image. http://screencast.com/t/pcdSLS0Lg Im clearing my cooks, flash cookies and deleting the flash cookie folder, but Im still having trouble with craigslist. Posting manually with Firefox, I do not have these issues. any good tips or guidelines that I may be missing?

I do not want to wait before I click on continue, that would wait for the next page to load. I want to click the radio button and continue before the next page loads.

Thanks to everyone im learning and making progress. Im currently working on a craigslist bot, they have radio buttons to choose your section. When you select the radio button the page also executes the go command, it also has a continue button. typically I select the radio button and follow that with a command to press the continue button, this is to make sure that nothing goes wrong, but something goes wrong. click radio button click continue button wait for browser to load what ends up happening is the page loads, then then continue button is pressed on the second page. This interrupt

this was confusing me because their was no resume. I now have it working great thanks

Thanks LoWrIdErTJ .. after look at it and comparing it to some things that we have talked about before, I realized that the increment was not in the loop and was not doing what I expected it to. while this is still like psuedo code, there are still a lot of coding laws that must be followed, so a lot of this is very new to me. thanks!