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@Duane All I've been enable to do in WinAutomation is to launch the uBot EXE, (launch it minimized) and then set it to invisible. Is that how you do it? Run Application (With parameter of "minimized") Set Window Visibility (using a Window Handle)

I I have to say that "The html panel is easy once you learn to master html and css." is sorta funny.

Yeah, I selected that option and tried it, didn't work for me. (Using most recent version of WinAutomation.) ??

Both WinAutomation (new to using it) and something else that I've used and can also execute (run) compiled uBots, cannot run hidden, even though WinAutomation and my other software have the option and ability to run exes hidden. 1. WinAutomation didn't work. 2. I've also tried to capture the (bot) exe an run it within a internal frame, but the bot does not allow it. Here is what I was told by the company of the software I use (along with uBot): "Typically EXEs that don't have a traditional "main" window cannot (or are hard to) "corral it" into the frame. Sometimes our software cannot det

One thing that (since it marinated over night) was the fact that in the demo done for me/us by Emmanuel, that the app sized to 0 x 0 was able to be resized by me a user (sounds like I'm talking TRON speak) ... was able to resize it. I think it would make sense to have an option, that is: [ ] Allow end user to resize. I mean what is the purpose of letting a coder set the height and width if the user can just resize it? There are various reason NOT to resize: 1. Will mess up the look of the UI (the way the coder wants it to look). 2. Can be used to hide what is happening. * McD *

Thanks Emmanuel for answering the questions and going the extra mile with the demo. Here is what I found interesting, is that I thought setting the dimensions 0 x 0 (or any other size for that matter would lock it to that size as well so the user could not expand or shrink the app. created. (So, that is interesting to know.) Thanks again.

Ready for spankings... word is on the street, you're into that. Happy Birthday.

I'm thinking about upgrading to DEV, but I only know what can be done, but not how it looks, to see if it would fit what I want to do.. examples: 1. Width & Height, can they be set to 0 X 0, 1 X 1? What is the smallest dimensions I an use? 2. Is there a way to keep the user from closing it, no [ X ] upper right close? What if I don't want them closing a process that I am using uBot for? 3. What does a compiled DEV version that has "No Browser" selected look like? Anyone willing to help me decide to take the plunge?

I'll do a bot that does the two clicks, then a bot to start the two click bot... and one more bot two watch the preious two, incase there are some shenanigans going on,

@Rich: Thanks, but this has nothing to do with Wordpress. @DuaneF: Yes that's true.. makes sense. @LoWridErTJ: I agree with the use of... and the later point would be the grey. THanks peeps. (Anyone else feel free to add your 2 cents.)

Ok, so I'm thinking about delving into running a bot from a Windows server... That in itself should be "straight forward", but the next thing I think I have my own answer, but let see what you guys think/know... Can this be done? Purchase Adobe Acrobat and install it on the Server (just like a desktop windows machine) and have it generate PDFs for me. (I'm wondering if this is against Adobe or most other vendors agreements.) I mean, what if I had an office where someone sits at a desk generating PDFs 24/7 would that be against their software agreement? My thought is that I can install it

Well, "Chrome" itself allows for extensions, as seen here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/ext/11-web-development?utm_campaign=en&utm_source=ha-en-na-us-extensions-categories-google&utm_medium=ha#category/ext/11-web-development?utm_campaign=en&utm_source=ha-en-na-us-extensions-categories-google&utm_medium=ha But what I am not sure about is if any of their "extensions" add information to what the browser displays, as shown in my intial post example... Where then it can be scraped from the page. (The Firefox SEOQuake extension would allow data to be be scraped sin

Uh.... Well since it's part of uBot, I dunno what can be done, or how to go about it, again, since it's (the browser) a part of (inside of uBot).

With Firefox and Chrome, there are some cool add-ons/extensions that can be added that do some cool things/tasks. I'd like to scrape the data they generate, what do you think? Example: Imagine having SEOQUake installed (like as in FireFox) and being able to scrape data thery have for Google search results. : If you ar enot aware of what this (example) add-on/extension can do, see here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/seoquake-seo-extension/?src=search So can uBot's browser be made to allow installs of these add-ons/extensions? *** For now I am talking about running

I'd love to know what Windows hosting people are using that they are satisfied with. (And have used for some time. There are lots of server that do good, but then die off, so to speak.) I really like LiquidWeb.com, but I have been using their Linux stuff for years, killer support and killer up time. They have a $100/month Windows VPS, but that's more than I want to pay for a Windows server at this time. ???

I've spent hours trying various combinations of things, but now it's time to get back to the basics... I can't figure out why doesn't this file get pulled into a list, with each line as a separate item. (See attached text file.) When I pull it into a list, it ends up with one item in the list (0), shown like this: December 1, 2008 09:33:00 28 04:24:24 29 01:01:08 16 21:43:20 17 12:28:58 18 The text file was originally saved out by uBot itself. I'm not sure how to find hidden characters or add any so that this gets pulled in correctly by uBot (which again, originally output the file).

Not one to be lazy, here is what I found: http://ubotstudio.com/forum/index.php?/topic/9083-resolved4096-add-to-list-or-scrape-attribute-bug/page__p__46427__hl__%2Burl+%2Bscrape__fromsearch__1#entry46427 Which gives me this code: add list to list(%test, $scrape attribute(<tagname="a">, "fullhref"), "Delete", "Global") Hopefully that will work with 99% of the sites.

I'm trying to scrape links (starting on a generic URL scraper) and I don't see an attribute when using the Advanced Element Editor. Example from this page: http://www.rc-car-hobby.com/RC-Links.html The link: Stealthlaptops.com Nothing shows in order to find it in the Advanced Element Editor. I'm just used to looking for <A href= kind of stuff. ???

Yeah John, like that. I was just thinking of looping through various sites that offer the domain look-up in order to not go over each sites' use limit. I am also open for other thoughts, options. Again, thanks John, that is once again, awesomeness.

I want to do a bot that looks to see if a domain is available for registering. The one way I have thought of doing it is to find a bunch of web based lookup sites and rotating between them, checking to see if a domain is registered or not. (I really only need availability data, but most sites don't offer that.) Is there another way you guys can think of? If there was a web based service with an inexpensive fee, I'd be for that. Any suggestions/thoughts? Thanks, Troy

Hey John, Thanks. I had started trying it a different way. But looking at your code.. clean smooth and perfect. I am adding this to my "knowledge-base". Thanks again.

Alexa lists 100 backlinks to a web site, for example for bodybuilding.com: http://www.alexa.com/site/linksin;0/bodybuilding.com http://www.alexa.com/site/linksin;4/bodybuilding.com I want to grab the pages listed below the domain, but there does not seem to be a text or HTML pattern that I can use to pull out the URLs, example listing. Anyone have an idea of how to grab the text of the URLs (since they are shown as text, not actual links)? Thanks, Troy

I agree with Lombi. I don't think it's anything to laugh at. Documentation and Training are not one in the same. With any "programming" software that I have ever purchased, the following were usually available, especially if there were no 3rd party options: (1) Included documentation of each function and use. (Comprehensive) (2) Tutorials 3rd party options: (1) Documentation of each function and use. (2) Tutorials I wouldn't mind paying for a 3rd party option with a reasonable price, as long as it was up to date and comprehensive. But I do wish that uBot would devote a person to nothin

Ok, now I understand what uBot does, but now comes the question... Is there not a way to have uBot pull from the directory where the compiled bot is installed? And end user may decide to install the compiled bot in a different directory than uBot was "coded" on. Make sense? And then for the compiled bot to pull data from the folder in which it was installed... ??? P.S. Check your forum mail. I sent you an email question regarding one of your paid bots.

I did watch the video, sorry if I missed something. In this test case, I have the following: Compiled bot Location: (Which could be anywhere by the end user) desktop/temp/test2.exe Location of URL to read: desktop/temp/url.txt ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- In my original question, I assume(d) that uBot would interpret $Special Folder > Application as the literal location of the compiled bot, in this case: desktop/temp/ so, then the url.txt could be located within: desktop/temp/ which it is. ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- I'll look at your video again, bu