caveman 0 Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 Can someone help me understand the limitations of ubot by letting me know if it can handles these hypothetical scenarios? Can ubot... * go to a webpage and download any PDFs it finds to a folder?* search for goldfish on Google images and download the first 3 pages of images to a folder?* search for goldfish on Google images and download only images with the word 'fish' in the filename?* scrape the product names and prices of an ecommerce competitor and output to a csv?* check each page of a website for empty <title></title> tags, and output to a csv?* use a min-max random delay between actions e.g. RAND(3, 6)* use regex to select elements/attributes? Finally, do you need an active internet connection at all times to run ubot? Or can it run offline? Thanks in advance! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sonneti 0 Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 Can someone help me understand the limitations of ubot by letting me know if it can handles these hypothetical scenarios? Can ubot... * go to a webpage and download any PDFs it finds to a folder?* search for goldfish on Google images and download the first 3 pages of images to a folder?* search for goldfish on Google images and download only images with the word 'fish' in the filename?* scrape the product names and prices of an ecommerce competitor and output to a csv?* check each page of a website for empty <title></title> tags, and output to a csv?* use a min-max random delay between actions e.g. RAND(3, 6)* use regex to select elements/attributes? Finally, do you need an active internet connection at all times to run ubot? Or can it run offline? Thanks in advance! Yeah I think this is all possible.. not sure what regex is but you can easily search and select for attributes on a page. Not sure how I would go about downloading .pdf's but you could create a list of them quite easily & then rip later. Don't forget there is a 30 day money back guarantee. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alcr 135 Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 * go to a webpage and download any PDFs it finds to a folder? I'm unaware if it can actually download them (it can gather them together to a list though), we have a discussion in another thread here about the matter though. http://ubotstudio.com/forum/index.php?/topic/2770-automating-file-download-in-ie * search for goldfish on Google images and download the first 3 pages of images to a folder? Yes * search for goldfish on Google images and download only images with the word 'fish' in the filename? Yes * scrape the product names and prices of an ecommerce competitor and output to a csv? Depends on how you write the bot? But probably yes. * check each page of a website for empty <title></title> tags, and output to a csv? Not at the moment, the title tag is in the head, not in the body. But this will probably come in the future. * use a min-max random delay between actions e.g. RAND(3, 6) I guess so. Never used that function myself though. Someone else around here might know. * use regex to select elements/attributes? Regex? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
caveman 0 Posted February 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 Sorry guys... regex = regular expressions for pattern matching Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Brar 107 Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 BTW yes, you can easily scrape content from the ecommerce site. Here is a tutorial Aaron made about it -- http://www.ubottutorials.com/navigating-site-scraping-product-data.html And yes, regular expressions are totally okay. Let me know if there is anything else we can answer for you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
caveman 0 Posted February 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 Thanks guys, that's really helpful. Just tge final question however... Do you need to be connected to the web to use ubot? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Brar 107 Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 Just tge final question however... Do you need to be connected to the web to use ubot? Yes. Actually UBot Studio is all about browser manipulation, so I don't really know why would you not want to be connected to the internet when using it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
reanimate 0 Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 Been reading around about UBot and overall feedback seems good, but I have a big concern which is how well it works for saving images and other files off the web. Let's say I have a list of URLs to visit. Each page has 1-3 images on it. With UBot will it be possible to automatically save those images and give them each a custom name, using the URL name as a variable for example? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aaron Nimocks 19 Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 Been reading around about UBot and overall feedback seems good, but I have a big concern which is how well it works for saving images and other files off the web. Let's say I have a list of URLs to visit. Each page has 1-3 images on it. With UBot will it be possible to automatically save those images and give them each a custom name, using the URL name as a variable for example? Yes, that is what is good about UBot for scraping images is you have full control over the filename. So it can be anything you want really. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hannahmcintyre 2 Posted February 10, 2010 Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 * use a min-max random delay between actions e.g. RAND(3, 6) I guess so. Never used that function myself though. Someone else around here might know.Yeah, this is really easy to do. I do this after almost every command to make account creation look more random. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
caveman 0 Posted February 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 Yes. Actually UBot Studio is all about browser manipulation, so I don't really know why would you not want to be connected to the internet when using it. Very good point! I'll have a look at the many tutorials and decide if it can save me time/money/headache. Thanks again everyone - this forum adds oodles of value to the product. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
UKMagento 0 Posted April 3, 2010 Report Share Posted April 3, 2010 i think you can use both uBot and regex to help you in running your ecommerce site. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joshua 1 Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 use a min-max random delay between actions e.g. RAND(3, 6) i am using random delays in my bots and it works great. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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