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I am not sure I understand. Is this something we can create with ubot? the facebook applications, i mean.

Well, I could do that I suppose but wont that site ban my ip. As for what details I want except google page rank, they are the number of links indexed and the number of links pointing to the site. Again, I am concerned whether my ip or the ip of my clients will be banned while using this. Faraz

I am not sure if this will help because I want to get the link details about the top 10 sites in google. Is there any other site like this which could help? Faraz

oh,Boy! That means there's nothing I can do about it. I hope there's some sort of update which helps with this. Faraz

well, there is a sequake extension for internet explorer too. But, I haven't tried it yet. will try it and see if it works.

Hi, I use firefox a lot and I use the seoquake plugin to do some seo research. So, I want to build a bot, which helps me to scrape data from the seo quake plugin for the top 10 results. So, I would input a keyword or a list of keywords and it would scrape the seoquake data for the top 10 results. I have attached a screenshot to show what it looks like. The problem is that I cant see this seoquake data in the browser within ubot. So, what am I supposed to do? Faraz

Ah, Thanks. This helped me indirectly. So, now I will just ask the client to create files that are being used by the bot and to store those files in the folder, where the bot looks for the file. So, its okay now. Thanks, Faraz

Well, most probably I will be selling the bot and the problem is that I dont know, what are the different filenames in a person's hard drive. So, how can I choose only 3 filenames. Different persons can have various different filenames, and it is impossible for me to guess those names. Hope you understand.

Well, actually I meant something different. Maybe, I should have said a file. So, I want the user to be able to choose any file from his hard drive. Since the file is actually a list of links(or urls), that is why I said choosing a list. But now I think I should have said file. So, user chooses a file which contains a list of urls. and then bot chooses each item from that list to scrape data. How do I do that?

Hi, I am building a bot and I want the user to be able to choose which list should be worked upon. The steps are : User chooses list Then that list is used to create a loop where the bot navigates to each of the urls in the list and then scrapes it. I have got the scraping part correct. The part that I am not getting is how to get the user to choose the list and make the bot work with it. Faraz

Hi, I can do this for you. Let me know the details. Faraz

Wow,Its working perfectly now. Can you tell me what was wrong with the bot I created? Want to make sure this kind of things doesnt happen again. Please explain the logic of the "clear list" command. I just dont get it, how it is working if I am clearing the list. And one more thing. The results I am getting have ,'s in them. eg, 63,20,000 or 20,000 so how do I remove those ,s . but keep in mind that there will be certain results without ,s such as 260 or 2 or 790. Anyways, I have to go to be bed now. Its about 1:30 am in my part of the world. Thanks. Will read your answer when I ge

Well, no! I am not trying to increase the size of the list. there is one list which I am using to set the number of loops.i.e the keyword list. so, if the keyword list has 50 items, there should be 5 loops. and each time the loop happens the bot scrapes a page and adds the result to a list. so, when the bot stops, there should be 50 results in the scraped list. Hope this is clear now.

Well, I dont this I should be clearing the lists, because then how will the loop work the 2nd time, if the list is cleared. and how will I save the competition list, if I clear it each time. I moved the sub google results scrape out of the loop and when I check the competition txt file, it is just showing the list result where the bot came to a stop, although it stopped when the list ended. so that part is working now.

Where exactly do I put the set list position command. should I put it outside the loop or inside it. I had put it inside the loop just below where I choose the number of loops command.

Okay, I did that and it keeps repeating the same item again and again.

I couldn't upload the screenshot, so I am uploading the ubot file. k2.ubot

Here's the actual error that I am receiving: you have exceeded the range of the list. command: $next list item

Ah,Thanks. I used this one and it worked. Just one more problem. I have created a loop to get this to work. And I have chosen the "list total" command to choose the number of times, the bot loops. But, now I find a message which says that the range has exceeded list total. So, what can I do about this.

Well, I am already using the if then else command, but I dont know how to add the zero. As you said: If search page "whatever" ----------------- I have already done this Then add to list -constant ------------------- I dont know how to add the constant(which is zero) to the list So, how do I do that?

HI, I am actually creating a bot which scrapes a page and before the page scrape starts I have put a "search page" command to search for a certain element on the page. What I want is that if that element is not on the page, then 0 (zero) should be added to the list where the rest of the scraped results are added. So, how am I supposed to do that. I am not sure which command should be used to do that. One more question. I am using a loop to scrape these results. and I want it to loop for the number of items in a list. So, I have chosen the number of cycles of the loop using the "List to

Okay thanks for the answers. I will check out the REPLACE tutorial. As for the set list position command, will it make the script stop when it has cycled through all the list items? I want the script to stop when it has completed all the items in the list, instead of giving me an exceeded list range error. I dont want it to start over the list items again. I hope I have explained this properly. Faraz

Hi, I am trying to scrape number of competing pages from the google page and save it to a csv file. now the problem is that when the number of results is 79,900 or 1,20,000 or something like this which contains comas, then 79 and the 900 are saved into 2 different columns and not in one column as it should be. and the 1,20,000 then is saved as 3 different columns with numbers 1 20 and 000 in the 3 columns. Now, what am I supposed to do to correct this? another problem is that I am using a loop for this bot, where the bot uses the number of keywords in the list as the number of cycles. but

Oh, wow! This seems to be just what I wanted. Thank you so much. Faraz

Hi, I want to build a keyword bot, where if I enter a list of keywords or maybe just one keyword. the bot should find out its google competition. Actually, I have already built a bot where if I enter a keyword , it gives the number of results for that keyword. Now, what I want to do is that instead of just putting in the keyword in the search box. the bot should put the keyword in quotes and then find out the number of results. so, if I put in a keyword say ( cheap cigars), the box should put "cheap cigars" in the search box and display results according to that. the problem is that I am