turbolapp

so what does return do exactly? Does it start over? it hasn't been working for me but maybe I did it it wrong.

Thanks web. It did work...for just that link though I tried the same type of thing for a bunch of other links and couldn't get any output. I think you're on the right track though.

To put things in perspective, when my script is in the middle of big old process and the site won't accept my queries anymore, i would like to flip my ip and then just "take it from the top" I was thinking the "return" feature was like this but if it is, I can't figure it out.

I'm trying to scrape the descriptions of the items but I'm having a problem. example: cgi.ebay.com/Arrowhead-Florida-SUWANNEE-Large-Paleo-w-COA_W0QQitemZ200435563069QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2eaae3fa3d You'll see that description is not showing up on ubot. Any ideas of how to nab it?

This should be right. Except instead of search try choose attributes with wild cards. For some reason the search function doesn't always work and the choose attributes finds it everytime. @aaron the "if" function says: If (replace with qualifier) Then (replace with commands)

That sounds about right. I'm at 29 minutes (got a stop watch going) for 1 captcha right now. +1 for the info update and +10 for captchabot EDIT: PLEASE make this a priority as someone else pointed out without the captcha services pretty much most bots are useless.

bump

Have been waiting 10 minutes now for one captcha to be solved, looked at their load time at 1% (never seen it that low) so they should definitely be able to solve these captchas. So something is definitely wrong. That being said, for decatcher, I'm using both ubot and another software (unrelated to ubot) and these problems are across the board. For my other software I've switched to ITT but can't get ITT to work for Ubot.

How to tell for sure? I was thinking it was decaptcher but according to their site load time is only 11% which shouldn't account for the problems I'm having. I already changed to the new ip but I didn't notice on their site it said: Does that mean anything to us? edit there's no error, just extremely delayed or no response. Very similar to http://ubotstudio.com/forum/index.php?/topic/2712-decaptcher/page__view__findpost__p__7941

Yeah that was the other thing. I've gotten pretty used to just automatically hitting "no" when it asks if i want to auto save but we had to go through a few bots before we realized what we were doing (luckily I back my shit up) and still occasionally I hit "yes" if I"m not paying attention.

I never really wanted it (I'm usually pretty good at remember to hit ctl S) and now my bots won't run from task manger because of it.

Still having problems with Decaptchers response time as well. And I can't get ITT to work at all. ( http://ubotstudio.com/forum/index.php?/topic/2711-itt-captcha-solving/ )

Thanks Aaron, that's exactly what I was looking for.

Since decaptcher has been crapping out on me lately I decided to switch over to ITT. I'm having problems though. Here is my sub: http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/5381/itt1.png http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/2893/itt2.png This method works with both decaptcher (whenever decaptcher decides to return a solved captcha that is)and manual captcha so I know that I've chosen the correct attributes on the site. However, when I run this sub with ITT I get this error message: http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/5355/itt3.png Help?

Still having serious problems getting decaptcher to respond. anyone else? And is there another option besides ITT?

Has anyone done a bot like this and could give me an idea of where to start? Or even better let me see your bot so I can model mine after it??? But really, I was thinking something like scraping the first pic and then the description of the product. I could probably figure out the description part on my own but haven't scraped images yet...we can do that right? or not?

I'm having problems with them today. I don't think anyone is typing in the captchas? Anyone else having problems? edit: nevermind looks like they changed ips.

Heh. I knew it would be something stupid simple like that but it was alluding me. I'm not much of a variable user so that's probably why. Thanks, Web.

That email constant is too limited (currentusername@textre.com or whatever it is) I would like to make my own. So something like username@homtail.com. Anyone know how I can do that? I know i could do a text file and just pull from there, I guess, but I was hoping to do something within the bot like add a constant next to value "@hotmail" but if I can do that, I don't know how.

Thanks Jonathan, that was very helpful. You're right, it would only work when you have something constant on the next step but I can still think of a few things it would be useful for....Off to apply now

Jonathan, Would you mind doing a screencast of what you're talking about? I'd like to see this "wait for" in action.

Well that worked (of course) Jeez I would have never come up with that in a million years. Good thing we have a forum aye? Thanks, Jim.

I can't get this to work at all. I'm running 64bit vista. i only have one script in my bot. (the bot, ofcourse, works when i open it manually and then click play.) but I can't get my bot to run from the command line.. I'm clicking Start, Run, then typing in: C:\ubots\bots\mybot.ubot /auto the bot opens, but doesn't start running. what am I doing wrong here?

okay, if i run c:\ubot\ubotname.ubot /auto, then does my ubotname.ubot have to only contain one script so that ubot knows which script to run when it opens or do i do something in the bot to designate which script to run on open?

I'm getting more and more lost as this thread goes on :-/ So can I or can't I run task scheduler to open AND run a bot?