Creating Auto-Poster For My Facebook Page From Rss Feeds

[mrloudcry 0]

Greetings everyone! (This is my first post!)

 

Hope this post finds everyone doing well. I recently purchased UBot Studio Developer after "eye-balling" it since 2012 when I first fell in love with automation but invested in the wrong software to do it (IChameleon Paid nearly $1000 for all the bells and whistles - shortly after I purchased it, the browser interface stopped working for many things and the developer had stopped supporting it since he had moved on to other projects FYI IChameleon went out of business shortly there after)... So that is my story in a nutshell... anyways I was finally able to purchase UBot Studio Developer and am excited about it. I want to get started using it on a regularly basis making bots that will do all my kick ass ideas for me!

 

So here is project 1. Its really a simple idea, the trick is getting UBot Studio to do it! I created a page that has "The Top 75 Must-Read Online Marketing Blogs" using RSS Feeds. it's a nice (and simple) page check it out. http://ushomeworkforce.com/rss/index.htm

 

This is what id like UBot to do:

1. Go to a page on my RSS mini site (Link shared in previous paragraph)
2. Randomly select from the drop down menu (I've got that part working in UBot Studio)
3. Then scrape the FIRST URL (most recent post)
4. Then go to my Facebook page and post it! (I CAN get UBot to do that)

Summary: this will be a nice little bot that can help me feed fresh new content into my Facebook page, which will help me grow my audience by providing a helpful service to my Facebook pages community. 

 

I am getting hung up at step 3. I followed everything in the "5. Your First Steps Into UBot Studio - Part 5" video, I selected the item I am looking for using the class id. When I set the <$scrape element> to "outertext" id does scrape the correct items titles and descriptions. However when I do as the video tutorial instructs and set <$scrape element> to "fullhref" it scrapes the pages parent URL (http://ushomeworkforce.com/rss/all-in-one.htm), obviously NOT the URL I want. Below is the Bot Code View, from what I created so far (like I said a moment ago I am just getting started with using UBot, I am brand spanking new at it).

 

navigate("http://ushomeworkforce.com/rss/all-in-one.htm","Wait")
change dropdown(<id="menu">,"Random")
clear list(%scrape urls)
add list to list(%scraped urls,$scrape attribute(<class="rssRow odd">,"fullhref"),"Don\'t Delete","Global")

 

If any of you UBot Studio veterans can stir me on to the right direction and help me, so that it scrapes the RSS feeds URL's from the page I would be grateful. Thank you in advance, and I look forward to getting to know you people better through the forum. 

Edited February 16, 2016 by mrloudcry

[mrloudcry 0]

You know, a simple solution would be to have COPY and PASTE browser functions! We all use copy and paste everyday, I am a bit surprised that these basic computer functions are not yet available in UBot? I see we can set it up to "right click" but how can I have it select "copy link address" from the right click menu options we get in a normal browser? if we can do that, then how is that done? Thank you!

Edited February 16, 2016 by mrloudcry

[nichewebstrategies 12]

Give this a try....

navigate("http://ushomeworkforce.com/rss/index.htm","Wait")
wait for element(<id="menu">,"","Appear")
change dropdown(<id="menu">,"Random")
wait(3)
set(#theURL,$scrape attribute($element offset($element child(<tagname="h4">),0),"fullhref"),"Global")

Adjust the wait time as needed.

[mrloudcry 0]

Give this a try....

navigate("http://ushomeworkforce.com/rss/index.htm","Wait")
wait for element(<id="menu">,"","Appear")
change dropdown(<id="menu">,"Random")
wait(3)
set(#theURL,$scrape attribute($element offset($element child(<tagname="h4">),0),"fullhref"),"Global")

Adjust the wait time as needed.

 

Hello nichewebstrategies, you rock bud! It works perfectly... Thank you!