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The variable you assign to the checkbox will be set to True if checked and False if not. So simply do an evaluate on the variable for if it is equal to true. Andy

Auto running bots was discussed here and a good solution provided: http://ubotstudio.com/forum/index.php?/topic/2672-auto-start/ Andy

Does this mean that all bots created with that copy would have to open the same url? It would be nicer if the url could be set from within the bot script. The UI parts of a script are clearly read and executed prior to the actual running of the bot, could the url not be controlled in a similar way? Andy

There is def no problem with ajax windows which I am pretty sure is what they are popping up. If you use a web based email program you should be able to automate getting the message that rapid share send and store the unlock code into a variable. So I would think that would be no problem at all. Andy

Number 1 gets a vote from me. Like alcr I don't really get 2 and 3. The 'savestate' idea in the original post about number 4 sounds good. Andy

After your reformat did you make sure you put the latest IE and MS-NET framework back on? I would do a fresh install from the link in your original welcome email. If you lost the email in the reformat send in a support ticket and they can re-send it which they just did for me. Andy

Thanks so much for this. This really adds to the potential of ubot. Andy

I've never come across this but if you give us a link to the site I'll have a go. Andy

I not tried this so this is just how I think I would approach it... If I get this right you want both the url and the words to be in one file. So if it was a csv file in the following format: www.asite.com,word1,word2,word3,word4 www.anothersite.net,word1,word2,word3,word4,word5,word6,word7,word8 www.yetanother.com,word1 www.hello.com,word1,word2 You can read the file into a list using $list from file. You can then take each line and break them into a temporary list using $list from text seperating using the comma. This will give you a temporary list that contains the url at position z

Could you write the batch file from within ubot with the commands and parameters in it and then use shell to execute the just written file? So basically you write out a file called temp.cmd which contains the commands "ren old.txt whatever.txt" and then "shell temp.cmd" Andy

You can do a search after the page should have loaded for something that should be present. I had a problem with a login page loading so I increased the timeout and then did an "if search" afterwards to double check the page had loaded and I could proceed. But I agree it would be useful to more easily detect if the timeout occured. Andy

Thanks for this Jim - was very useful in a bot I had to put together today. Andy

I think that is as good a work-around as any. I like your choice of variable names in the example :-) Andy

This might be worth checking out http://www.data-asap.com/ I have used it for some standalone quick web databases, you could easily scrape data from the output it gives and equally you could easily fill in the forms it makes with the data. The whole thing can be password protected, etc. Their support has always been spot on too. Andy

There are some useful pointers in this thread too http://ubotstudio.com/forum/index.php?/topic/2944-learning-the-right-way-to-create-bots/ Andy

If you wanted to avoid nag screens then depending on what your bot does you could just make a free 'lite' version that has a few limitations and people would pay to get the full leaded version. The lite version could also navigate to the order page on startup which would spell out the key advantages to paying you for the upgrade. Andy

Yeah gets my vote. If it was a mix of upper and lower case with a couple of numerical characters and more than 8 characters in length it should cover most sites requirements.

Build two lists, one that contains the vote links and the other that contains the site name from the div tags. Now loop through the list of site names and whenever the list item contains your site name the same position in the other list will contain the vote link, add this to a new list whenever the condition is met. Loop through the new list navigating to each link. Andy

I am not using the latest beta because the lack of insert node and a few other things were slowing me up too much so I rolled back to the current stable release - I don't know if this makes any difference. Andy

I've had Ubot a week now (so I am still a newbie myself). As I come from a programming and web background it has been a little easier to get my head around what ubot does and how it does it. Having said that I did spend a few hours failing miserably at a fairly simple scrape task on my first day because I had misunderstood something. I thought I'd write up a few tips for learning ubot which might help newbies avoid some of the frustrations that learning something like this can bring. 1) Watch ALL the tutorial videos you can. It becomes tempting to skip over videos because you already thi

Been a bit busy this week but finally found a few moments to make the example better. Try this one. It should login to facebook, navigate to the correct places and scrape all friends into a file. Andy facebookscrapefriends.ubot

Can anyone recommend a site to scrape public proxies from? I found a few sites but wondered if anyone has good experiences with any particular one. Andy

Yes it works for me. I was going to try to find time to see if I could scrape from the pop up window on the view all link but been a bit busy. Facebook is a nightmare to scrape from!

Sorry, should have been clearer! Login to Facebook. Account > Edit Friends. Left hand tab under "Lists" click "Friends" This loads the friends list on a main page rather than a pop up window. Run the bot sample. Andy

No idea! What url are you starting from in facebook? Andy