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OK, I'm going back to the alter of Ubot Gods for this one. :-) I'm trying to scrape something that may appear twice on a page, but only want to save it once to my list. Here's my example: http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/6669/scrapeonly1.png I'm scraping a category number from a PhpLD directory of choices. I'm scraping just the number from something like this: /submit.php?c=384"> The above code scrapes 384 perfectly to the list %catNumbers, but sometimes I end up with a double entry because sometimes there's two submit links on a page. I end up with: 384 384 I just want a si

I was just working on a phpLD bot tonight. Can't help you with any sub routines, here's what I've done: I made something that can scrape the shopping category of any directory. I scrape the category # and submit URL. I create a validation pull down list of the category #'s in an Excel workbook. Within Excel is where I choose the categories and export everything as a .csv file. Now I use the pre-selected .csv file data to log in with the category I want selected. What's nice about this method is I can save ALL the (say) "Antique" categories as sort of a template, so once I've chose it, I don'

Are you saying a faster computer would not trip over it self when dong a spin? Thus, you wouldn't get the crash, or is it something that just happens within Ubot?

Ubot would go boom completely. I message pops up saying do you want to send a bug report to Microsoft, then Ubot disappears. Then I gotta relaunch Ubot. Sure wish it would've just hung, then I could've waited it out. Nothing specific, I just don't want to be the guy who finds the only bugs for XP. (if there are any) I've found plenty of software bugs in my lifetime and I've been told many times "it's just your system" - just to have the bug reported publicly a few month later. Drives my friggin' insane. The concept of making Ubot run faster seems weird. I spend so much time inserting

OK, I'm definitely in the same boat as everyone above re: spinning. I've now created 3 bots for auto posting pre-spun stuff to Wordpress, Posterous and Vox and I've only had it work once without crashing. I usually crash after a dozen posts or so. I always get the crash message right before a $spin command. As I mentioned above, I'm taking pretty big files (7,000 words) and spinning them down to 300 words. I've got 35 of these spun articles I'm working with. Right now I'm attempting to break up my list of 35 into smaller sections and see if that helps. (9 cycles at a time) Is there any way a

Check out Seth's tutorial on building a Google keyword scraper tool. He goes over scraping and saving things into a .csv file. Seth's Google keyword tool tutorial Just pulling this outta my butt, I'm guessing it would look like this: {1},{2},{3},{4} $newline When your saving what you scraped, you'll add a comma between the {1} variables, then program a $newline into it which brings you to the next row of cells. Again, I ask too many questions around here myself. I could be horribly wrong. :-)

Can anyone take a look at this? I've been trying to exploit the freeby, fast access emails from Mailinator.com and yopmail.com. (No passwords, signups necessary - even faster than Yahoo or Gmail) I've got an example bot which creates an account on a WPMU site, just so it sends a confirmation email to an account at these sites. I basically can't click on the confirm links. (Manually OR within Ubot) I'm assuming it has something to do with how these types of sites strip a ton of stuff from the emails. 1. Mailinator - I am able to scrape the link and NAVIGATE to it. It works, but why no cli

In this particular case I was able to kind of emulate a tab key by selecting the next field and sending $nothing. Then selecting is again and sending keys to chosen. There's gotta be a way to send a tab key via Javascript. I found this script which prints out a message: Link Is SendKeys("{H}"); able to do it? Wasn't sure how to run Javascript within a chosen field. This page lists Javascript key codes. it says TAB is 9. But SendKeys("{9}"); should just send then number 9.

DOH!! OK, that was it. Thanks Lily! After getting everything to fill in, it STILL doesn't allow me to create an account. If I manually click into the boxes and delete/replace something, it likes it. (the "you're almost there" box turns green) Should I just let this one go? I wish I knew the signs that the page is set up to be against us botters. I'm assuming this is the case with certain sites.

OK, I've seen this come up on a couple of sites. Filling in the fields doesn't work, so I send keys to field chosen. Problem is I'm getting triple characters of everything when it goes off. What's going on? Is there something that I can tell it to slow down? Is it a bug? Is it just the site screwing with Ubot? I'm using Posterous as an example. I just want to create an account. I can fill all the fields in easily enough, but it's no go. I guess it wants to see someone pushing the keys. What's going on at this point? Is this some Javascript idiocracy? Is it like this just to foil bots? http

So I just tried setting up a Ubot that auto clicks an activation link with mailinator.com. I could use "click chosen" on the first page, but when I tried to get Ubot to click a link within an actual email, it wouldn't click. I'm talking about actually CLICKING on it manually or using Ubot. (it clicks when I use Firefox - it doesn't appear to be javascript) Anyone notice this? I'm able to scrape the text text link and NAVIGATE to it. Is it just me? My IE browser with UBot? Mailinator says it strips all sorts of stuff from emails

Wow. This is some really good stuff. I was banging my head against getting an auto email activation bot going just yesterday. *** EDIT 5 minutes later *** OK, mailinator holds the messages for only a few hours, and only 10 per account. YOPmail messages are kept for 8 days. I was worried that someone might be able to scrape your info if your emails lasted for months at a time.

Aaron Nimocks did a few tutorials on building just that with Gmail and Yahoo. The simplest one is using Yahoo mobile mail: http://vimeo.com/8786032 I had just recreated what he did. The only tricky part I had was using the selection by position of the first email link. Some others are here: Regular yahoo mail: http://vimeo.com/8947475 Gmail: http://vimeo.com/8751357

Somebody should make a "button playground" tutorial page going from easy to hard. (If you can make all these buttons click, then you know what you're doing.) It gives the coding solution to each button.

Yea hold on, I've noticed the same thing. I've built an auto post wordpress bot and I start to get random crashes after 15 cycles or so. I'm taking around 3,000 word spun-formatted texts and spinning them down to 300 words. (Sentences are spun along with individual words) On top of that I'm spinning the titles which is another variable taken from a list. It never crashes the first few times through. (upload a post, set the scheduled time, do another one) I've slowed the bot way down with 3 second delays between all the steps. Is there a size limit for variables? What is it? I can't tell if i

Certainly. I was gonna do that, then I noticed a bunch of things like that were moved to here! (Scripting)

I took a whole day to figure out how to trim, delete or replace stuff using a Javascript expression within Ubot, so I figured I might as well share it. I have had not one drop of javascript programming experience, so you hot shot programmers can shrug and scoff all you want. :-) I'll try to explain this from a complete noobs perspective. My objective: I wanted to trim down any long URL to the basic domain. Take something like this: http://www.ubotstudio.com/forum/index.php Turn it into this: ubotstudio.com You should be able to use what I show with ANY type of text string. I created a r

I'm not sure on how to actually USE a javascript string in a Ubot. I've gone over examples from the pinned [library] strings thread from above. I want to do something simple as this: Start with "haystack" - change "hay" to "brick" so I end up with "brickstack". Here are two examples that failed: http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/8250/changejsvar.png What am I missing? I want to change my variable "haystack" (which I'm setting to "haystack") to be "brickstack". There's a nice working example of the REPLACE javascript string here on this website: Replace Example. So I got the concept of

I've noticed that type of thing on a bunch of sites myself. I was beginning to think I was lousy filling in captcha's via Ubot's manual decode chose captcha's selection. Random suggestion: have you tried SENDING KEYS TO CHOSEN? Can any of the higher minds explain to us what's the difference between a human pushing the keys and Ubot sending data? Should there be no difference?

Ah ha! OK thanks Net66. I've got that working. Next question is, am I doing it right? I'm basically resetting the variable and applying the replace command like this: http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/249/setrepace.png I'm basically removing some bold tags from my scraped authors name. Am I doing it right? Is there a better way to change/replace variables? === The second part - working with strings ==== Lemme as this: Can javascript use GREP searches? In my fancy schmancy text editor (BBEdit), I can use GREP to replace long strings of text. As an example: stupidwebsite.com/88383f

OK, after going through the sticky string thread above, I only have a vague idea on how they should be used, and no idea on how to create them. I'm learning Javascript through osmosis at this point. Here's what I want to do: I want to scrape an authors name from a webpage and use that as a variable. With certain sites the scraped author id/tag ends up looking like this: Posted by Squiggy. I want to get rid of "posted by" each time I scrape for the authors name. I just want to end up with "Squiggy" as my variable. This sounds like something I would need to use a string for. (I'm guessing) H

I thought you should be able to do that. (as in iMacros) How do I get my Ubots to auto run? Usually you gotta click the PLAY button to start 'em.

OK, so what's going on behind the screen with this? Is it some automatic algorithm that figures out captcha's? (Thus, it's very cheap) Unlike something like decaptha which has an army of low-paid workers pounding them out? I like the idea of an army of low-paid workers - they should be able to figure out the simple math problems you've go to answer from time to time.

OK, this is what's confusing me. I thought anything in a sub would be part of the "global" variables that are created when you use SET. So if I want to create and use subs liberally in my Ubots, I SHOULDN'T be using SET, but PARAMETER? (which at this point I will be using subs within everything) Are subs some sort of exception to the rule? (other than having to include a RUN SUB within a bot) When do I want to use the PARAMETER command? (again)

Thanks for the tutorial Frank! So I haven't used the Parameter function up till now, thanks for pointing that out. So there's a couple ways of setting variables: SET: I thought this was the way to set it globally. (i.e. used in other scripts if I link/import them) SET LOCAL: This is only good for the script your running PARAMETER: If this sets things globally, couldn't I use this to set all my variables as I build things, just in case I want to break up my Ubot later? When would I use SET and when would I use PARAMETER? * I was waiting for the funny message after all that black on the