TommyTx

Thanks you have been a great help this week...

OK what am I overlooking.. I have scraped a thousand input fields but now I am getting an error.. Is my copy of ubot broken or have I over looked something.. Giving the error unable to Set the variable... Its a very simple one.. if it works for you I have either a machine or ubot problem... simple_input.ubot

Here is the bottom line... rip out as much source code as you can and post it on a domain... it will look like hell without the css. and all the other shit.. but scrapers don't care... they are reading the dom structure and css usually is not part of that unless css is acutally building the tables... Most of the time you can grab the source and post it without the css and all the graphics and it looks like hell but if most of the DOM is still there it will scrape like a big dog... There are a lot of experts here, but without the DOM to experiment on.. they usually cannot just tell you what

Hey this is neater than shit.. I just found the button that allows you to receive the full post in your email.. its so nice to read the full post without stopping and going to the web... I am surprised they allow this as most webmaster want us to keep comong back so thier traffice looks good to alexa.. anyway.. its really neat.. If you can capture the entire outer html and save it as one data element, its very simple to save it on the run. and have another program parse it to grab and format the data... on the fly... or did you say that even if you saved the entire innerHTML it would not inc

Hey Jonathan, Long time no hear... this is tommytx you may remember we played with a few projects a while back...(before you became world famous.. heee... heee.. back in the days of Cloaking... you may not remember... Any way these guys here at UBOT are great at tackling most any problem but they can't do a lot without the actual ubot or at least the section giving the problem.. I am sure that is a subscription site so I certainly understand that you cannot let anyone in, but here is a thought that works some but not always. Save that page in question in two different ways... 1. View source

Does anyone know any secrets to keeping the "in sub window" open as long as you need it open.. it closed following the loading.... I need to keep it open awhile.. but can't use simple delay as the time will vary drastically.. Let me give an example.. 1. I autofill in the craigs list with the info to post.. 2. Then I scroll and review to make the auto fill looks ok.. 3. Then hit continue... and in that same window it shows me what the posted results will look like. 4. I scroll to look it over... 5. The hit contine and it gives me the capture and then I hit continue again. 6. If the capture is

Thanks... if that works it will be a big help as I am finding tons of things I cannot do with UBOT, now I am having problems keeping the in sub window open... I used wait till finish.. but hell all that means is finish loading... I have to do some things bu it closes right away... hell we need a wait till Tom finishes command. I added a delay but that won't work.. as I need the window open various amounts of time.. I even tried shit like "Wait For" <> Sub Window and even Wait For != Sub Window as that is the name of the window. I can't say wait for certain text,, since I don't know what

Can someone offer some actual uses they have put Shell to use with.. Does it run only .exe files only.. I tried to run a VBS or vb script, and a .bat file to no avail.. regedit did run but I think that is an exe file... it would really be neat if vbs could run as you could fill in some of the masssive short comings of Ubot.. to do some of the stuff ubot won't do.. Any ideas of thing you have run would be interesting.. Thanks..

The following UI stuff look interesting.. 1. UI check box 2. UI List box 3. UI window. but I have no idea how they work and cannot find anything discussing them.. Does anyone know of any sample code using them.

Are we stuck with the interface.. like requiring hiliet and click run to get something to happen.. Surely there is a way to put a button or two to make things happen... Is there anyway to change the interface for customers at all... Once I got this sucker made, I wanted to put the "Load Script" first then the "Post" Script next.. but they are both below subroutines.. is the only way to move script names from the bottom of the box to the top is copy and past all the scripts piece by piece to another script...

As far as I know there is no way to add comments to ubot.... Here is a neat idea to allow you to enter comments anywhere you like.. especially at the start to remind you just what this freaking script does.. but you can also place them anywhere you need them to remind you. Anyone knowing javascript knows that the /* and */ starts and ends comments... So we do this: 1. Move to the node... right click and mouse over the action command. 2. Click on "Run Javascript" 3. Type your comments in the box with the beginning /* and ending */ 4. Type /* (then enter) 5. Type your comment as follows.. /*

Seems awfully difficult not to be able to use one script with another program.. Can i even copy a subroutine or anything to another program... or am I just screwed... There must be a way to share this stuff with other ubot programs... surely... Thanks for suggestions.

Trust me this shit gets simpler as you go... and you get plenty of help... I am still asking a lot of quesitons... if you have not done so be sure and compile a simple one just to look at he control panel of the compiled program.. It will affect how you write when you see the panel the customer will see.... It will help to see that before you write any complicated programs Good luck..

This is day 2 for me here... .but I am gonna give it a try for you.. Since you said the fill in works fine the first delete all the shit you got below the last fill in.. Click the node just to make sure it knows where to put the next bunch of stuff.. If you don't understand node.. read item 6 below first... I hunted that sucker for awhile myself. 1. Right click on the Dig login button. 2. Third button down says "Choose by Attribute" 3. Click that one.. 4. Make sure value is hilited. 5. Click ok 6. Right click on the node.. (that is the thingy that says "Drag Commands Here" hard to read. 7. F

Thanks ALCR, however I have tried position several times and it seems Craig has figured a way to block that as it does nothing when I select By Position.... total just sits there... so that is not a go. Thanks The_Brit, I like your suggestions, as this is day 2 for me and I have not gotten into the use of wildcards yet. It does look like that might work, but I belive we may be using a slightly different form to fill in.. I think craig gives up a different form depending on what you are doing.. I am doing commercial real estate.. Broker so our forms may be different and would explain why it

Have you tried to tackle filling out the form to submit to craig.. like for advertising with Craig... appears they change the name each time for the inpout so its hard to fill the form.. any ideas on how to defeat that..

Do we have any expert craigs list form filler outers... It seems they try to prevent automation by changing the name of each input on each load.. At first I thought I could use the size and it worked until I got to the last two or three and the suckers made the size the same as some others.. A sample craig form can be seen at hxxp://www.vahud.com/_bt1login/craiglist/craig_fill_form_step2.htm for anyone wanting to play with it... Just remember this is a copy so the name of the fields will remain constant.. but trust me on each live reload they change... so the name cannot be used.. I could

Thank you ALCR and Net66 for the code sample.. I finally understand....

It's the script above sample that Net66 gave me.. it works great when I run it, but then I tried to rewrite it exactly as it is and when I get to the point of fillinng the program into the content box I don't understatnd what button to push.... I am just trying to learn how to do a basic input/text box scrape.. and its right there before my eyes but when I try to dupe it... I am leaving out something very important.. As soon as I learn to do the very basic text box scrape the actual project to scrape is below... and it has a command that if someone clicks you dump to their clipboard...onfocu

Let me try to clarify this a little more as to exactly where I am.. 1. I set up the Navigation ok and it works.. 2. I click on the tizag text box. 3. I rite click on the tizag text box. 4. I select Choose by attribute 5. I select attribute by name 6. the word quote appears in the box 7. method of exact match is hilited. 8. click ok and all seems well. Problem begins here. ******************** While hovering over the last box... where I normally drag and drop stuff... 1. I click on Set Variable. 2. I click on my variable in the box called #myvariable. 3. #myvariable pop up into the box. 4.

Boy I am starting to feel really dumb.. no one seems to be asking all these questions but me... Everything but the most important one worked great... that is getting the text.. Navigate:http://www.tizag.com/phpT/examples/formex.php Wait = Yes Choose by attribute Attribute = name Search String = quote Method = exact match ************************ Start my problem ******************* set Variable #myvariable Content 1. $scrape chosen attributes 2. attribute 3. value *********************** End my problem *********************** ui stat monitor Label My variable Watch #myvariable

I have watched a ton of videos out there, does anyone remember seeing a tutorial or a sample of a bot scraping a text box.. I see tons of bots dumping all kinds of text into a text box and bots scraping data all over the place but can find none scraping a text box... Very simple if someone could give me a simple of example of grabing the text from a text box and saving it to a variable or even a file would be a great assistance.. Thanks

I have watched a ton of videos and still have more to go.. but meanwhile can anyone tell me where i can find the tutor or video describing how the cookies work (I know how cookies work... but what does bot do with cookies... just read them or can he remove them from my hard drive? Here is what I need to do... First I have three different domains with the same company. You go to one single log in page for all sites.. When you log in they send you to the correct location based on the password you used.. Problem is they cookie you so if you log into site #1 at 10:00 am and then try to log int

Ok... he did it.... WAL.. he's my hero... super speed.. leaps tall buildings with a single bound... Problem was I along with many of us just don't allow a lot of stuff to fully load before moving on... use the delay when something just does not work... worth a try... Hope fully my next project will not be top secret and i can expose it here.. for all to learn, see and even help. But this one was in my MLS for real estatae and kinda top secret.. if someone figured out how to break in I would get fried... anyway if I had let you folks see it.. I would have had to kill you.. by the way I just s

Thanks WAL.. will take you up on that offer... as this involves an MLS and have to be careful how much I disclose. I might strip it down to show just the button if anyone else wants to give it a try... check for your PM now..