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This is on the Patch.com contribute page. I want to post an ad, I can fill out everything, but this section refuses to be filled in properly. It won't allow me to continue unless I can insert something for real into here. Using typing text gives me some weird double characters. Changing the attribute isn't recognized. I can't drag the entire thing to the left column. I remember having problems filling in certain iframes in the past that looked like this. You had to change frames, then fill it in. I don't see that option anywhere. What does this look like to you guys? http://imgur.com/x3v

A recent trick I've been using is to let Scrapbox do the searching for me. Man, I can find out if 200-300 urls have an email in them within 20 seconds. (off of 25 proxies) I was hoping I could figure out the regex for my search string. Didn't think about merely looking for a FORM tag. Give that a go.

OK, while we're on the subject - how about finding SUBMIT buttons? This implies that there's a form on the page, and they want to be contacted through that. Here are some examples: <input class="contact-form-button contact-form-button-submit" id="ContactForm1_contact-form-submit" value="Submit" type="button"> <input name="submit" value="Submit" id="ss-submit" class="jfk-button jfk-button-action " type="submit"> <input class="formdefaultbut" id="id123-button-send" onclick=" this.style.display='none'; insertPleaseWaitDiv(this,'Please wait...'); " style="background-color: #c8

Yea baby! It works. I found some people doing this: grownupbookreviews AT gmail.com The regex above wants to find a DOT next to the com. I wonder what you can do with just an 'AT'.

Anyone ever come up with a regex string that grabs obscured emails like these? abookgeek [at] gmail [dot] com actinupwb (at) gmail (dot) com daisyjdebruin(at)gmail(dot)com ctrost (at) hotmail (dot) com The (at) and [at] part seems pretty consistent. It seems I can just grab any character or space out from there in both directions and manually clean it up later. I'm trying to find if somebody wants to be contacted, then I'll go back and review their website and start a legit conversation. I'm guess it would look like: find (at) OR [at] to the right, grab everything to 'com OR org OR net

Ah ha, so it wasn't a stupid question. See what happens when you take a Photoshop guy and try to make him a programmer? I was wondering what the loop thing was about. I just need: set(#number,$add(#number,500),"Global") Thanks!

OK, I'm sort of embarrassed to ask this. I've been increasing variables by +1 for a while now. I want to increase a variable by +500. In the parameters/Math Functions I have $EVAL and $RAND. Is this is regex thing? A $REPLACE or $REPLACE REGULAR EXPRESSION thing? How do I say: #NUMBER (500) + 500 = #NUMBER (1000) or do I have to update another variable? Like: #NUMBER (500) + 500 = #NUMBER2 (1000) How do I enter this? :-P

I'm probably not doing this right. (seeing that I'm a Photoshop guy, and not a programmer.) I want to check an item against a previously saved list, if it's not on this list, then do something. The flow looks like this: http://imgur.com/6P57J7S.jpg I've got two lists. List ONE is recently scraped users. List TWO are scraped users in the past. (userstollsave) I don't want to deal with a newly scraped user if I've already dealt with them in the past. Should I compare my two lists first? Make a third list of users who aren't on the old list? Then select next list item from this third list?

OK, I'm guessing that this is what I want. Pash's Advanced Ubot 2 http://imgur.com/x5mwwj7.png Can anyone confirm that the restart aspect works? It's says beta. I thought somebody said it gets stuck and you have to kill the background process manually.

OK, I've yet to install one plug in. I'm rummaging through the store, I don't see anything specific to restarting. Is it part of a larger plug in?

I'm still having the same old issues with crashing even after trying load html($nothing). It's pretty consistent after so many iterations. I guess the final solution is to restart ubot in the middle of a sequence. I've never done that. Anyone have any example code of how this is done? Has someone covered this in another thread? I've done a search for "restarting", but can't find anything specific.

OK, so I was able to scrape 50,000 + Twitter accounts by being in mobile mode (didn't know why I didn't think of that earlier) and saving and clearing the scraped list after every 1,000. (as mentioned above) Thanks. This is interesting. We're talking this: load html($nothing) Right? I'll have to give that a try. It's 'nice' to know that everyone else's bots 'deflate' after a while. It just wasn't me being the world's crappiest programmer.

I've had this issue since day one. I've probably created over 50 UBots so far, and it's rare that a bot won't crash after running overnight. I'm not even making complicated bots. It seems something is "piling up" in the background when they are running. Switching user agents every time it loops has helped a lot, but eventually it crashes. Here's a specific example: I want to scrape Twitter users. Right around the 7,000 mark the bot locks up every time. (while switching user agents) Twitter only offers you a a single list of users (following or followed) that are only displayed on one screen.

In Internet Explorer, you can choose to turn off pictures. Can I do the same type of thing with Ubot? I'm running some bots 24/7 and I'm hammering my proxy bandwidth. http://imgur.com/50yQCV2.png

Woo hoo! That did it! I've never used the TRUE/FALSE type variable - till now. See what happens when you have a Photoshop expert trying to do programming? :-)

Thanks for looking at this Pash. I know how to set a user agent, that's easy. (I already have that in my example.) I have pauses and alerts in my example, just so I can see what's going on. Ultimately I don't want them in there. They're for testing purposes only. I want it to: (start the loop) 1. Set user agent to Chrome. 2. do it's thing (loop) 3. Set user agent to Safari 3. do it's thing (loop) 4. etc. forever. Do this with no input from me.

I need to change my user agent frequently because Ubot crashes if I don't. I want to do change it after every sequence of events. I'm trying to EVAL an incrementing variable - if it's odd, change to Chrome. If it's even, change to Safari. I came up with this: ui stat monitor("Useragent #:",#useragent) set(#useragent,1,"Global") loop(5) { if(#useragent = $eval("^(\\s*\\d*[13579]\\s*,)*(\\s*\\d*[13579]\\s*)$")) { then { set user agent("Chrome") alert("ODD") } else { set user agent("Safari") alert("EVEN") }

Thanks for looking at this one Pash. Still not working on my end, does the same thing as the previous one. I can't get the link to work even manually clicking on it within ubot. (it does work outside of Ubot on my computer) This should be simple as hell to do. Do I have my system configured wrong? What would be PREVENTING the menu from popping up within Ubot? Javascript? User Agents?

Thanks for taking a crack at it! When I do that - I see the screen "twitching" (as if the menu is trying to come up), but then nothing happens. I can't manually click on the link either. Nada. The only way I can do this is in a browser outside of Ubot. http://imgur.com/FIl36xa.png I'm using Ubot 5.5.11 Professional - Could it be the user agent? I tried a couple of 'em. What are you using?

I'm trying to automate the process of creating accounts on: https://writeon.amazon.com/ You're basically creating an Amazon account. I want to upload a photo from the menu when it appears after you click "select a file from your computer". http://imgur.com/9IrmeU8.png Clicking on it within Ubot doesn't do anything. The code looks like this: <span class="a-size-mini"> Drag and drop an image below or <span class="a-declarative" data-action="ignite-fileuploadpopover-manualselect" data-ignite-fileuploadpopover-manualselect="{"closeOnFinish":true,"popoverContentsId":"profile-pic-upl

OK, it's not just me. I also made a Pinterest bot which is doing some very simple things and it too crashes/freezes after 25 or so cycles. Crash report: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: Browser.exe Application Version: 0.0.0.0 Application Timestamp: 547bc745 Fault Module Name: awesomium.dll Fault Module Version: 1.7.3.0 Fault Module Timestamp: 52698ef3 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 0001063e OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: 0a9e Additional Inf

Well that worked! I didn't know the command was there. Thanks!

I'm trying something with Tumblr, I want to visit many pages, but so there so many unnecessarily large images and GIFs that are hogging all my bandwidth. Would be nice if they never even tried to load.

Well that did the trick - stack TWO blocks on top of each other! :-) Thanks and thanks

I'm trying to open multiple browers (shared or new) at once. I'm pretty sure I've seen it done. Can I run 4 loops at once in 4 different windows? I basically want to have 4 websites open and I'm just waiting for an element to exist - then clicking on it. I can certainly do this in order if I login / logout of each one, but it would be nice I'm already there, waiting for an update. It looks like the THREAD command is what I want - but how do I use it properly? I see plenty of examples where a thread opened up the same website many times with a loop command - but I want DIFFERENT websites to