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  2. If you could..What Ubot Plugin would you develop?

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    Hi.

     

    What Ubot Plugin would you develop if you could? Bug fixing plugins are not allowed  :D

    Would love to hear your creative ideas.

     

     

    Cheers

    Dan

    I would LOVE LOVE LOVE a plugin that would read and write to serial ports.

     

    That way I could send +5 V to a port and have it do something with the device attached to it.

     

    The possibilities to this are endless with what you could do with it, but right now I just want it :)

  6. EXEs not starting on VPS

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    Hi all,

    Something strange happening this week.

    All my EXEs on my windows server 2008 VPS won't run... since the weekend all exes have stopped opening BUT looking in task manager I can see them in there, but running on like 12mb of ram rather than the usual 100 or so... 

     

    Anyone experienced this? I rarely log into the server but when I did this was the situation... it's been restarted several times.

     

     

  7. Ubot 5.5 is way faster

    in General Discussion

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    Its not a waste people are telling you already here 5.5 is good!   just buy a month if you are so bothered.

     

    It's just like me saying about my warriorplus account... i don't use it much no more as i use jvzoo... BUT i could use it one day when a good offer comes up.. is it worth me paying the $4 a month to  keep it in case!  hell yes. i will make more than the years worth on the first offer i promote.  similar thing.

    I cancelled my W+ account and still have access... figured it wouldn't be a wise move to lock out affiliates if they didn't pay to play :)

  11. [ubot ideas] Some Things I Use Ubot For

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    Here are a few things I use ubot studio for that save me time and money:

     

    1. Create Paypal buttons on the fly

     Say a customer wants a new subscription plan to one of my services, or wants to purchase something that I haven't set up a payment link for - I use ubot to create these buttons for me as I need them. Either one time, subscription, monthly, weekly etc. Saves logging in every time and with a list of "thank you pages" to select, I can always make sure they are sent the payment link that will also send them to the right thank you page upon purchase.

     

    2. Auto update a Facebook page each day regarding the weather for a particular area (easy one really). Bot goes to Google, types "weather TOWNNAME" and then scrapes the result. Then bot logs into Facebook (mobile user agent) and posts the weather update).

     

    3. Scrapes a list of free kindle books (love this one).

     

    4. I have a mobile data plan for some projects I work on that require a separate connection. It's important for me to know how close to my monthly data allowance I get. So, I have a bot that checks this for me a few times each day. If it gets within one GB of the limit it will send me an SMS (see this guide http://www.internetmoney.ie/send-an-sms-when-a-web-page-is-loaded/). Obviously I don't want it to send me an SMS each time it checks whilst it's within 1GB of my limit, so at the start it checks a file on my computer for the status (go or stop). If it gets to within 1GB it will change the Go to Stop so the next time it starts it won't send an SMS. I manually set the file (it's a dropbox file) and as it's rare that I get that close to the limit it's not an issue. At $2 per MB over my allowance you can bet ubot will save my ass if I go 100mb youtube video over my limit!

     

    5. I use automated webinars. One inconvenience with the platform I use is that it doesn't allow for automatic changing between webinars. For example I want to have a "monday" webinar play on Monday and Tuesday on Tuesday etc... but there's no automatic way to change out the webinars inside the platform I use. So, ubot checks the time and date from timeanddate.com and sees the day of the week. It then logs into the webinar platform and looks for a webinar called "Friday" (for example) and changes that webinar for that day. This is cool as it allows me to start my webinars like "Hi and welcome to Friday's webinar" and not need to manually change these things.

     

    So this is just a few of the things I use ubot for. You don't need to use ubot bots to make money. Sometimes they can SAVE you money, too.

     

    What other ways do you use ubot for that isn't money generating?

     

     

  12. Is it possible to identify whether a web page has responsive design or not?

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    I have software (made in ubot) that does exactly this. TJ made it for me a couple years ago.

     

    It changes user agent, looks for redirect, if detected assumed mobile responsive. (eg going from bbc.co.uk to m.bbc.co.uk).

     

     

    You could also try something like this:

     

    If you're not sure the site is responsive search the page for "Mobile" and "desktop" view. That might help determine whether it's responsive.

     

    Finally, you could also check to see if that symbol that's so common in responsive sites is present - it's a small square usually in the top left or right of the mobile browser that has three or four vertical lines in it. If it exists it's mobile responsive (assumed).

  18. Post a quick ubot tip

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    Ever get stuck rendering a video in Camtasia only to realise a) that you need to go out before it finishes and B) that you didn't set it to render into your dropbox folder and it will take hours to upload?!

     

    Having a poor upload speed can cripple your network during the day so if you are in a position that you're 70% of the way through your video rendering, use ubot to help you out...

     

    1st - estimate how long left the video has to go (Camtasia 7 doesnt tell me this so I guess by timing how long it takes to do 0.5% then multply that out by the percentage left...)

     

    Open ubot and create a WAIT for the number of seconds you've left + an additional say 10 minutes in case of poor arithmetic ;)

     

    Then use the COPY FOLDER node and set it to your dropbox folder.

     

    So, when you come home it's uploading/uploaded for you :)

     

    I had this exact problem on Sunday and it was a 200mb file @90% left but I was going to be gone all day... worked like a charm.

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  19. Memory Usage Keeps Climbing On One Browser.exe

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    I have a couple of ideas you could work around...

     

    Add a counter and increment every time. Count it till it gets to 100 then have it shell out to the same software but run it from a .bat file with /auto.

     

    100 might be too much/little only you will know that.

     

    You could have it shut down after each time it processes what it's needed to do and then restart again afresh. Do it the same as above but without the counter.

     

    You could monitor the task scheduler to see how much memory is currently being used and if it's over a certain amount you could have it kill the software and start again -

    cd c:\
cd FOLDER TO SAVE TEXT FILE IN
tasklist >>processes.txt

    that would be a batch file - your software could call it, read in the txt file and check the memory usage and make a decision from that...

     

     

    So basically my advice to you is to set up a solution that will allow your bot to shutdown and restart during the down time that it's not actually doing anything. Perhaps AFTER it's viewed your website let it restart and shut down the original bot with a stop script...

     

    I do a number of the things I mentioned above. It really comes down to what works best for your particular situation.

  20. Quote I came across today - Noobs take note

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    "There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish." Warren Bennis

     

     

     

    For those just starting out with ubot this quote I hope will give you some insight into how your mind may start to work once you grasp ubot and even 50% of its functionality.

     

    I'm no singer or dancer, but I can choreograph a pretty awesome software solution that will do all the singing and dancing I'll ever need, 24/7, 365 days of the week!

     

    My advice to those starting out right now: dedicate one whole hour every single day Monday through Friday on learning ubot. This is exactly what I did and it took me 4 months to get really good at it. I run a business that has currently 14 staff and Ubot runs a LOT of my company for me. From customer requests to customer service automation ubot has saved me thousands of hours in manual labour and in revenues as well as generated me revenue.

     

    Stick with it and set yourself a simple project to work from. Perhaps learn how to create your own Google search engine scraper... then add UI dropdowns with different filetypes at the end (e.g. filetype:pdf) so you can now create a PDF finder for Google... Give that out to customers as a lead generation method.

     

    Bottom line - set yourself a mini project and commit time daily in order to master it. You will thank yourself for doing it.

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  21. Is it possible to remotely run ubot codes?

    in Scripting

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    I dont see why not. When you post your tweet why not send a broadcast email out to thr other users. Their bot is running 24/7 so constsntly checking for new mail. When it arrives the bot reads it and then does what you need them to do.

     

    You could also do it another way: send your tweet then upload html file to a webpage and have the other software constantly check that page/ $read file and compare if its different. If not loop wait 15 secs check again. If different then DO what you want it to do.

  25. Loading a pdf page gives a blank page

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    If URL exists there is no problem downloading the PDF with UBot's download command, but if you don't have URL (URL generated on server side, and you get PDF served after redirect) you won't be able to download it, since after clicking the button it will auto load the page/pdf from a random URL and your screen will remain blank.

     

    Ok I got the dark screen by browsing in through ubot's browser.

     

    However, I have managed to get a pdf to load inside ubot's browser, albeit via a non-traditional method and not sure whether it will be what's required.

     

    Ultimately I think it will need to go to an OCR site or some such, but, the PDF does load, as images but it loads ALL the pages contained inside the PDF.

     

    Here's the code:

    ui text box("URL to PDF", #pdfurl)
navigate(#pdfurl, "Wait")
navigate("http://view.samurajdata.se/", "Wait")
change attribute(<url field>, "value", "http://{#pdfurl}")
click($element offset(<name="submit">, 0), "Left Click", "No")
wait for element(<innertext="Viewer home">, "", "Appear")
alert("PDF Loaded")

    Sample PDF: www.handysoftware.com/cpif/docs/CPIF-Lesson-04.pdf

     

    I've made the code so as you can simply add a PDF to the text box. It first Navigates to the pdf as normal so you'll see it load a dark page then it loads via that website.

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