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On the plus side Ubot seems more stable with vmware and parallels than it used to be. Andy

Thanks Kevin! Andy

I've left this for now, when I have more time I'll play about with the subtext thing some more and try to figure out why this isn't working. In the mean time I'll just make it clearer to the end user they must not put the trailing slash on. Andy "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." - Rick Cook.

I have to admit I still avoid using regex if I can. I have a very basic understanding of it and it seems whenever I want to figure out the regex for something it takes me so long I find I can just code around it a different way quicker. But I agree its massively powerful. Really looking forward to Franks videos :-) Andy

Yes. What error do you get? Am I right in assuming the first character in a string of text is position 1? Andy

Hi all, Makes a change for me to be stumped lol. Can anyone who has figured out subtext take a look at the example dummy bot... subtextbot.ubot The bot asks for a url and should the user put a forward slash on the end of the url it should strip it off before adding "/?a=1". the ?a=1 is just an example and not what I would actually append to the url. The issue I have is that if the user of the bot puts a / on the end the url becomes www.url.com//?a=1 So I have written a sub which should take a url, check the last character of it and if its a / then it should return the url without it,

As far as I am aware the email functions of ubot are for sending mail only. I don't believe it has pop mail for reading messages. Andy

For those who are having problems but whose bots do not specifically require google, Bing has an equally good advanced search, for example if you wanted to get all the dog grooming articles from ezine articles via bing you just search for "dog grooming site:ezinearticles.com"

Nice work arounds Buddy! Andy

Google and Blogger (owned by google) are increasingly using useragent checks among other things. Ubot REALLY needs a way of changing the useragent. Andy

Sorry but no. Andy

Happy New Year Ubotters! May your 2011 be even more automated and bot-tastic Andy

Well said! Andy

The pro and dev version now has a get files constant for putting the file names into a list. Don't believe its recursive as far as folders go though. Andy

All the 'google' stuff is catching on. Blogger.com triggers a block on a block very quickly now. I suspect its detecting the use of ubot from the http referrer maybe? Anyone know what ubot identifies itself as? Andy

Many ubot users have mastered ubot without any trouble and they come from a wide range of backgrounds, many have never 'programmed' anything in their life. No one is likely to create a tutorial of making the exact bot you want because that would be pointless. Instead you learn the techniques by watching the other tutorials and then apply them to create your own bot, and you can always fall back on the forum to get help if you get stuck. Andy

Have you bought ubot yet? Just work through the tutorials and play with ubot and you can figure this stuff out for yourself like we all have and you will learn from the experience. We are all happy to help but we are not here to write bots for free for you! If you want a custom bot written make a request in the buy forum and get some quotes. Andy

1) Buy the Dev version and you can take branding out. 2) Work out how long it will take you to make a bot that does all that Super Auto Blogger does and then decide if that many of your man-hours are worth less than I charge for the bot. I have sold super auto blogger to many ubot users because they see that it will take them more than an hour or two to make a bot like that and it is more cost-effective to just buy the bot ready-made. Andy

Very nice share - thanks

You can do everything you have asked for with ubot however you would need to learn ubot first! Don't expect to buy ubot and knock up a bot to do all of that in a few hours. I have a bot (www.superautoblogger.com) that does some of what you are looking for and that took me quite a while to code and get working smoothly. If you go watch some of the standard ubot tutorial videos you will get a feel for what is involved and decide if its right for you. You can always find ubotters to custom code for you in the buy-sell section but don't expect a bot that does everything you listed to be chea

Just tested this myself and can confirm in ubot the file gets corrupted. Might be worth opening a support ticket. Andy

Have you tried downloading the file manually in Internet Explorer and then opening it? Is it really only corrupt when downloaded from within ubot? Andy

You are basically checking the total number of items in the list each time, picking one at random and adding it to a new list and then removing it from the original. Hope that makes sense. Andy

Pseudo code... Set #test=0 While #test = 0 if $total_list_items >1 #random between 1 and total_list_items add to new list $item (random) remove from list (random) else #test=1 endif end loop Andy

Again just a guess here.... What happens if you call the javascript using single quotes? So.. alert('{1}'); I am more of a php guy than javascript but I know in php single quotes don't need to have things escaped. My last guess was OK so might be worth a shot Andy