Luke

I doubt there is a way to limit retries, although that sounds like a great feature to ask Seth for. So far I've never needed it though; I mostly work with wordpress so things usually work or don't for me minus the occasional 1-time glitch... And those are what the while loop excels at working around. So it all comes down to testing most of the time... If the bot runs through all the situations you can throw at it without getting stuck in a never-ending loop then you're golden. I know that sounds grim but in practice it has not been as hard as it sounds to test. Cheers, Luke

Sadly it appears that it's not working. Here is a pic of exactly what I'm doing: It is not posting anything into the field at all, and i even saved the #LinklessHTML variable to a file and it came up empty. Did I overlook anything? Call the variable in the JS wrong perhaps? Thanks, Luke

Awesome. I'm in it now. I'll plug it in and let you know after dinner how it went. Thanks again, It is appreciated. -Luke

Hmm... But I can't get to the eval node's JS code to grab... It's untouchable. I'd write it over from scratch, but there are some friggy-weird characters in there! Can you post that in here somehow so I can copy it?

So I guess I just need one dataItem at the bottom, which is the #variable holding my original block of html code, right? Assuming so, how do I edit the $eval? I can't grab your code to edit in the first place... Very limited by uBot's interface on that one...

Hmmm... I'm trying to test this now but I can't figure out which form elements you are talking about. There is no form in the html block itself, and no data comes from a form at all... Perhaps it would help to explain my exact usage here: I have a list where each line item on it is an entire Html page with lots of markup in it. I do not want to replace all html tags, it's good to have the formatting, but the actual <a> tags with other people's links in them just have to go! So a loop is running at this point, and it uses a $next list item to pull the entire posts' worth of content o

So first I need to find a "code of the function" -Not just the command StripHTML();, but a block of code someone has written specifically to remove the hyperlinks from a block of text? Assuming that's true, I wonder if part of this code does the deed: http://www.hscripts.com/scripts/JavaScript/remove-html-tag.php It's the closest I've been able to find. Thanks, Luke

I've just read about a function that I'd like to include in a bot, that strips HTML links out of blocks of text... StripHTML() is the function, but I can't figure out how to use it in a bot. Go easy on my guys, I'm no Javascript programmer yet... Can someone tell me how to use it in a bot so that it takes the block of text (with some HTML in it, including the unwanted links) and spits out a variable that I can immediately put into a text field on the page? (The text block is coming from a list, this is all done per Loop iteration.) Failing that, does anyone know how to remove all html l

Ok, so it's not the most vital task uBot can do, but the Screen Options tab in wordpress is driving me NUTS... I can change everything but there is no save button and I simply cannot make it save anything. Here's the tab I'm talking about in case you're not familliar with it: I have heard on the WP forum that it was programmed in Ajax, but I don't know that for sure. It may just be JS. Has anyone out there figured out a way to make it SAVE? Cheers, Luke

That's deep, dude. Not to sound like a doubter, but what does this extra measure avoid, exactly? BTW, the Laconibomb on your site sounds like an awesome idea... Was thinking about dabbling with laconia myself.

More of a tutorial than a trick or tip, I thought I'd post what I've learned about the ever-confusing $replace function here for others to find... You have to think of replace as having FOUR inputs, not just the three you see when you open it. The fourth is found just before you open the replace window, the actual thing you are replacing. Sometimes you need it to be the same as the first setting (original) and sometimes it shouldn't be... Depending on your needs at the time. If you're modifying your source information itself during the replacement, then it will be the exact same as your 'O

Since you used the "wub" smiley, how could I refuse?

Replace is FUN. I nearly lost it on poor Alex a couple months back trying to figure it out but I eventually got it down and use it every day or more now. You have to think of replace as having FOUR fields, not just the three you see when you open it. The fourth is found just before you open the replace pop-up, the thing you are replacing. Sometimes it is the same as the first setting (original) and sometimes it isn't... Depending on your needs at the time. In your example above, it sounds like it would be. If you're modifying your source information itself during the replacement, th

You da man, John! Thank you very much for your diligence, it did turn out to be the popup blocker. Now the site opens in IE in a new window, just as I'd hoped. Thanks again! Luke

Just for the amusement of the hardcore programmers, and perhaps the education of other newbie programmers, I thought I'd let you guys know that I no longer make ANY SUBS AT ALL that don't have that While statement in them and set the success variable at the end, like in my picture above. Some scripts and subs will allow that optional first part, to check if the task has already been completed externally... Like when you want to see if a Widget you installed on a blog is showing up there or not, just as you go to set the widget up. But most subs don't need the external check first... They w

Advanced tip: Say you have 20 Subs in a bot. At the start of each sub set your #statmon variable (as per the purpose of this thread) to a sequential number like "1" for the first sub, or 5 for the fifth. Then as you go programming through it, add little notes, especially in your "Then" and "Else" nodes of what's happening at the moment, but always start those notes out with the number of that sub... EX: "17: Completed Signup at Twitter" That way, even if you're away from the bot when it breaks, you'll know EXACTLY where the bot broke once you come back to it, down to the Sub and the cho

Hmm... I just tried it without <script> & </script>, and I tried it from Google and a wordpress admin dashboard both... Still no change.

Please forgive my lack of all things javascript, but I can't get that to work at all... Even put in a new bot like this: Is there some elementary rule to javascript that I'm missing out on here? When I run that bot it just cruises past the javascript without any pause there at all, and no windows open up in IE, Firefox, or ubot.

Come to think of it, perhaps there is a javascript command or something that would launch a window OUTSIDE of uBot? Anyone know how to do that? The only data needed to be passed would be the URL.

Both of these options keep the script "alive." -What I really need is a way for the in-sub window to open at the very end of the script and be totally forgotten by uBot at that point. What it's doing is going to google and researching a keyword at sktool, just one search included in the NAV. -But those results will be referred to by the human operator in later scripts, so I can't have this window close at any point, really. Not until they are completely done with the bot several scripts away.

When the first script in my bot is done, I want the user to be able to make 2 different choices on the screen before starting the next script. That would be simple if they were on the same page, but in this case they are on totally separate pages. I have been just "pausing" on one and ending the script on the second, but that seems really sloppy to me, and confusing to the enduser. How do I make it so that the main window of the bot is showing one thing at scripts' end, while a Pop-up window shows another page... And it DOES NOT close by itself because the script completed? (Yes th

Holy Canoli, Folks! I found the answer we seek! On the widget page, click the "Edit Options" link at the top and then "Enable Accessibility Mode" - No dragging needed anymore, it's all clicking links and drop-down menus from there! Whoo-hoo!

That's an awesome-looking tool that I'll be sure to grab when I start mass-building socnet accounts. For right now though I don't even need a single loop... Im trying to figure out the best site to scrape off a live proxy IP address and use it exactly 1 node later in the same sub. I just tried with Xroxy.com, but It's not working. Perhaps it is because they have ports, I can't tell... Here's what I tried: 1. Nav to the xroxy's proxy list page. 2. Scraped a proxy and port with all the gibberish inbetween and saved to #var1 3. Replaced the gibberish inbetween IP & port with a ":"

I've seen how to scrape the big proxy lists and use them on loops but the application I am using this with only needs 1 singly proxy IP... Just to go check a Whois that is currently blocking my home IP address. (Presumably from too much usage) I attempted to use a proxy site instead just to tunnel through for the session, but things got really slow and their ads kinda took over. So, scraping just 1 IP: Where would you go to get the "best" one at the moment, just for 2 minutes worth of usage? Anyone made a bot that does this already? Cheers, Luke

?? You mean while your script is running, the variable doesn't change at the top of your ubot browser for you?