SourceUltra
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Double-checked the sales page and it looks like I'm not finding these commands:
- Youtube
- Screen recording
I was interested in screen recording so that I might create videos of my bots doing their thing; automatically create training videos and let my content generate itself!
Is this coming in an update? Hopefully soon?
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Support responded and got me access to my order so I was able to take a look and see what is new.
The attached pics give you a complete idea of what is different.
But yeah, for software that has multiple editions it can be difficult to determine if it's worth upgrading when you are sold on benefits rather than features, but marketers love to do it!
Ultimately I'm still trying to decide if what I paid for is worth renewing at 495 next year. If they add more features then yeah I might consider, but right now it feels like a "minimum viable product".
The speech stuff is kinda cool but it throws an error and says it cannot find the file it generated which happens to be in the Ubot Studio folder in the documents folder. So basically it generates a speech file but fails to find it. Maybe the documentation shows why that is?
The windows commands work fine and are helpful.
I may be remembering wrong but it feels like a keyboard event command and a mouse command was moved from the dev edition to enterprise? I could be mistaken though. I only think this because my muscle memory wanted to try to do a keyboard event in the dev edition but could not find it. I could be wrong though, it's been a couple years since I've used ubot.
A lot of these commands can be done with free plugins. For instance the Web requests command is just a headless request command for scraping content, and there's already a couple free ones that do that. Regardless, it makes sense to have in Ubot. Wish they had added some of these sooner!
New to the Bot Bank:
- Web requests (2 nodes)
- Speech synthesis (5 nodes)
- YouTube (9 nodes)
- Wordpress (8 nodes)
- OpenAI (6 nodes)
- Dreambooth (2 nodes)
- Advanced image (3 nodes)
New to Commands and Parameters:
- Windows Commands (1 node) / Windows Function (1 node)
You need a API key for OpenAI chatgpt which is paid of course. Dreambooth too I bet.
Honestly, I was expecting a bunch more commands, but it's a start I guess. Hopefully they add more.
I may look at the sales page again to see if I'm missing anything. I thought it mentioned being able to record the screen and make videos but I do not find that command anywhere. Anyone else see that on the sales page or did I misread it? Maybe it's hiding in Ubot somewhere.
Some of what I thought would be unique to the enterprise edition was actually already in dev edition.
This is what the wiki mentions is in the enterprise edition:
UBot Studio Enterprise Features
⦁ OpenAI
⦁ Wordpress
⦁ Advanced Image
⦁ Dreambooth
⦁ YouTube
⦁ DeFi
⦁ Coinbase
⦁ Web Requests
⦁ Speech SynthesisThe defi and coinbase commands/functions are already in dev edition.
https://wiki.ubotstudio.com/wiki/Main_Page
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I was curious about this as well.
I know that it has API commands that are unique to it, like chatgpt, wordpress, and youtube that are not in dev edition, and more google sheets commands (i think).
And then it has cryptocurrency functions.
But as far as a complete list of new commands and functions goes I'm still trying to figure that out.
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I get the 'webdriver timed out' error after running a single Click command, and just a whole lot of other errors so this version is pretty much unusable for web automations.
Both firefox and chrome, internal and external throw a lot of errors. I know that selenium and chromedriver aren't perfect but this is pretty bad.
Is anyone here using the latest version of Ubot for web automation successfully? Or are you all still using the older version and other plugins?
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Gonna give that a shot! Hope it gets picked up soon.
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This seems really silly, but after buying the Black Friday deal for the enterprise edition I got a receipt which said "You will receive an email momentarily with details on using your new software."
That was several hours ago.
No changes in Ubot either.
Any one else have this problem?
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I wouldn't buy ubot to work on any trading platform unless you know how to use the respective trading platforms api to do what you want to do. OR are willing to learn how to use an api.
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what files and folders are showing in the ubot install folder?
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if you know the ending point of the data you want to scrape, then page scrape the page and then use heopas get before to grab everything before that Grand Total. Parse that result and add it to a list, then add that list to a row in a table. Parsing that data will obviously be the biggest challenge. Good luck! You already know your target id's so it should be easy.
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It does not work.
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Try imap with ssl
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I can confirm this doesn't work. The solution is to loop while the downloaded index doesn't = new emails, to continually update the index. If an email is deleted you will need to rebuild the index to the date of the last email you saved.
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I've been using 6.3.7 and the debugger is showing data, and list functions are working. Didn't have issues compiling or running compiled bots. Clear Data command and Clear Variables button in the debugger doesn't always work even though the debugger shows everything has been cleared... and for some reason it always shows a couple rows of data left in tables that are really 100% empty. I'm seeing more errors in bots that reuse variable/table/list names and I'm guessing this has something to do with it. So far the only way around it is to reboot ubot and start over.
The connect to gmail command didn't work at first and I had to manually install a missing python module it was trying to use.
The commands and parameters for plugins are in the Bot Bank tab now, in case some of you are wondering where they disappeared too.
There's other stuff I'm probably forgetting, but in general it is running better than 6.3.5.
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Check the Ubot Studio install folder in your %appdata% directory. There's a ubot_log.txt file that can help indicate what your Ubot install is getting stuck on.
Also, try running Ubot "as administrator" next time you launch it and see if that changes anything.
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On 1/6/2021 at 12:29 PM, Seth Turin said:
I'd expect this to be true of exbrowser as well, unless they know something I don't know. Can anyone confirm?
I can confirm it doesn't work in exbrowser either, but it does work with multiloginapp.
With ubots python command maybe we could use pyautoit to automate a normal browser.
On 1/6/2021 at 12:29 PM, Seth Turin said:We still have the Gmail and Google Sheets commands in the Bot Bank. Those might be the closest we can offer for an official solution, until a better solution is found
and thank you seth for those new commands, they are very cool and definitely helpful!
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Any security software running in the background? Did you allow ubot through your firewall, etc. Have a screenshot of the loading screen? What message is it showing under the Revision portion on the loading screen. Does it say it's downloading base files... or validating license...? Were you ever able to enter your license during startup?
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probably the best powershell script most ubot users will want to use is wget. It makes it easy to download entire websites if you use the recourse/recurse parameter. Crawling an entire website with ubot requires a load more effort. It's not impossible, but if you want to see the level of effort required you will need to get nick's website crawler.
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I agree it is , it has its limitations though and I think I need to learn a bit of C# to get around some tasks.
If I could make a native plugin for AHK so that it bundles with my application on delivery then I will be happy.
Here's something fun: Dan's Exbrowser plugin actually uses AutoIT to make his plugin work. So yeah, you should absolutely be looking into c# and other automation programs like AHK to produce your programs. Because why??? If it works it works! There is no reason to make your program perfect. Just get it done. Or, as my favorite tv reality star says "make it happening".
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The Bion notification errors are because the Gmail and Trello features are not fully released yet, so for now they are normal.
Your computers specs are more than enough to run ubot. One of my installs actually runs on a 2gb ram laptop with a single core processor, which is a tiny fraction of power compared to what you are running.
The .net 4.5 alert is just telling you the dependency is already on your machine. The wiki suggests having .NET 4.0 as well.
Another dependency that isn't mentioned in the wiki is Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 https://www.microsof...s.aspx?id=48145
Regarding the lag/pause in ubot, in my experience there is generally a pause/lag when running any bot built with an automation/RPA software like ubot, so I consider it normal.
One tip that definitely helps with performance is limiting the amount of tabs each .ubot project contains, and keeping them small. Having multiple tabs can be problematic and cause the UI panel and Ubot to crash.
Good luck!
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And powershell. Loads of scripts available for parsing stuff. As you will learn this forum isn't the most active and people aren't always available to answer questions in the timeframe you want them answered in. Glad you found an answer though using ahk and python.
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I went through the same thing after purchasing ubot. I bought into the negativity and stopped using it altogether. This was several years ago, and after coming back to it I regret buying into all the negative BS because had i just stuck with it id have accomplished so much more.
Instead I bought every other tool and slowly learned that none of them are perfect. Then I tried python and c# and found it's just as much of a hassle if not more keeping up with a programming language.
There are no perfect solutions. Don't let other's unrealistic expectations turn you into a shiny-things chaser.
Out of the 6 automation tools on my PC Ubot is still my go-to, but even then it isn't the only one I use, and never will be because in automation there's the golden rule that 2 is 1 and 1 is NONE.
It's important to have redundancies and to find backup solutions. Finding the perfect solution is irrelevant. Find solutions you are willing to suffer through because NONE of them are perfect.
The forum may seem like a dead place, but
RPA is a booming multi-billion dollar industry that is just getting started. It's the golden age for automation.
Even though ubot has it's head up it's ass it's still an incredibly useful automation software that will benefit from the renewed interest in RPA. It's not going anywhere.
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You may want to try messing with the css height/width settings for the container the data is being displayed in to see if you can forcefully make it larger, possibly bringing more data into view. If more data is not displayed then there is a coded display limit and you may have to continue scrolling to fetch your data.
Also, check to see if there is an iframe on the page, because that may actually be where all of the data is. iframes are ancient technology but still great at screwing up the scrape attribute function.
It can be good practice to ctrl+f the pages source code with some of the data you want to scrape, to see if it is being pulled from a script that's loaded in the site's footer. Sometimes the data is actually sitting in a footer script helplessly waiting for you to parse it.
And when all else fails you can try the "is it just me" test by seeing if a small tool like listly can scrape it. If that chrome extension can't do it then you know it's a tough scrape.
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I'm not seeing shared cookies when spawning multiple instances with the in external browser command, but yeah, it does look like the built in cefsharp browser is sharing cookies when using the in new browser command. Pretty silly indeed.
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You may have solved this already, but Pash's Advanced Data Text File plugin has $remove blank lines which does exactly that.
Ubot Studio X Developer edition vs current Ubot Studio Enterprise
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I had bought that suite of plugins just before you bought it from the last guy and don't really want to buy it all again 🤪 hehe, no offense.
But yeah I got a lot of use out of them and know they are helpful, but with what I've spent on ubot plugins that either disappear or drop licenses I'd have to be crazy to do it again!
...but then again I DID just upgrade ubot editions 🤑😅
It's just money right???😆 😅