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  2. ubot getting pagerank with javascript

    in Scripting

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    I use a perl PR checker at a query every 3 seconds, and I have never been blocked, and I would guess, I have probably done 2 million lookups in the last year, on two different ISP assigned IPs.

     

    I own a backlink service so I perform a large amount of PR checks. I've found that if you make back-to-back PR requests google will ban you after about 700 requests. Adding a random delay function will likely double this. Im currently building a custom app that will be pulling PR non-stop all day :)

     

    Jim is great with javascript, send him a PM and he'll give you some advices

    Thanks man, but I ended up just creating this as a php app. uBot was just becoming too cumbersome.

  3. ubot getting pagerank with javascript

    in Scripting

    Posted

    Just find the a PR script for free and install it on your server then you can just browse to your own site and get it without a captcha. Here is one for free.

     

    Thats a good way to get your server Ip blocked by google :) I've already been down that road. I was trying to use ubot because of the private proxy support.

     

    There should be a way to do this with javascript, Im pretty sure thats how all of the firefox/chrome extensions are doing it.

  5. ubot getting pagerank with javascript

    in Scripting

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    Yeah, that was the only reference I could find as well. I can't get it to work though:

     

    This script cannot be used directly for web applications, mainly because of cross domain XHR limitations.

     

    I also can't find any PR checking sites that don't require a captcha. Im using this for serp scraping, so this needs to be automated.

  7. Should be beta

    in General Discussion

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    but it's a whole another to have the bot stop in the middle of a script which worked just fine 30 secs ago. It completely defeats the whole purpose of automation !

    This is a huge problem. It is very common to have a bot that has been working perfectly so far just stop working for no reason. I have spent hours trying to trouble shoot a bot just to find that restarting ubot fixes everything. This was a HUGE time waster until I got in the habit of simply restarting ubot every time I ran into an issue. I think this statement should be at the top of the ubot manual : "If at any time you can't figure out why your bot isn't working as you planned, restart ubot and functionality may return".

     

    Plus, I NEVER know if it's ubot, me or just something that can't be done period.

    Anyone who can't relate with this statement hasn't made enough bots yet! lol

     

    many times, I get through 98% of my bot only to find that something can't be done, frames, flash, send keys going wwwwwwwwwwtttttttttttffffffffffff

    You hit the nail on the head... its always the last details that ubot chokes on. I've been working on a social bookmarking bot for the better part of a week. I still cant figure out why some times it shoots off errors and other times it runs flawlessly. I cant wrap this bot up for the life of me!

     

    I don't give a crap if the next cool command isn't in as long as my bots are 100% predictable.

    Absolutely. Lack of stability is uBots greatest weakness. I have a huge list of features I would love to see added to ubot, but at this point I would settle for better error messages, more stable (and attractive) UI, and actually functioning cache and cookie control.

  8. Should be beta

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    The videos were perfectly fine, I understood exactly what was going on and as someone who cannot program anything, I don't think they could have made it much easier to use.

     

    Each video is around 30 mins long... There are about 12 videos now? Whether the videos are helpful or not is not the issue, the issue is documentation. If some one needed to understand the param function, the documentation will not help. So they would need to sit through one or more 30 min videos just to understand that one simple function.

     

    I'm not a programmer. Hell, I can barely get by in CSS, literally all I know is HTML. I know absolutely nothing about any programming language.

    If this is true, then I doubt you are working on anything as complex as a 40 website social bookmarking bot as I currently am. I can tell you that there is nothing more frustrating then trying to troubleshoot why your bot crashes on the 39th website without any error messages whatsoever.

     

    uBot is AMAZING for very simple tasks, but when it comes to complex tasks like list management and ajax site navigation, you will start to think you have been banished to hell! lol

  10. Should be beta

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I feel the same thing. I am always bumped into some errors while creating bots and its hard to track its error.

    This is probably the WORST problem with uBot: the error messages are of very little help in most cases to the user.

     

    HI -- I appreciate your opinion but it is kinda harsh and unfair to blast us without giving any constructive criticism

    I have been actively posting in the support and bug forums. Now if this was my first post, I would have to agree with you. All of the issues that I have had with ubot can be found in other threads.

     

    ...who are very satisfied with UBot Studio and are happy that they are not paying hundreds of dollars in SENuke subscriptions every month

    I completely agree that being able to create your own bot that you own for life is better than paying for SENuke. However, theres no denying that SENuke just plain works. I would argue that being able to mimic SENuke perfectly with ubot is near impossible (within reasonable amount of coding time for the average user) at this point. uBot lacks some very basic functions to achieve this, even something as simple as just "remove from list". Now Im sure others will argue this point, and thats fine, but the key is "reasonable amount of time".

     

    I think it's unfair to call it Beta though (even if some of the error messages are fairly incomprehensible)

    Im sorry, but I believe this is the very reason why something would be called "beta". If the user consistently gets completely incomprehensible error messages...beta.

     

    it's just part of the game. learning how to deal with those kinds of quirks is what I call the hard work of botting. in my opinion

    I would have to disagree. I believe that the "hard work in botting" should be finding out how to get around a websites spam protection, not figuring out how to get around ubots function failure and finding out how to mimic the desired action in 10 additional steps. I mean why have a function called "send keys chosen" if its going to shoot out something like "uuuuuuuussssssssssseeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrr"?

     

    Has anyone here used winautomation? I just started using it and its blowing my mind. All I can say is that everything just simply works. Maybe it will start getting buggy as well the more I use it, but so far its been incredibly stable and consistent. Sure its more money, but I'd be willing to give Seth another $200 just to have uBot stop crashing and shooting off random errors.

     

    Ubot does have its quirks and could definitely do with fuller written documentation - with examples.

    This is a HUGE issue. At the bare minimum of what I would expect from software that I purchase is to have a handbook that is up to date with the latest version. In the comando guide there is lots of missing information.

     

    My main point is that uBot is incredibly easy to use, but one will spend most of their time trying to troubleshoot some amazing bot that they have created only to find out many hours later that the problem isn't with their bot but some bug in ubot.

     

    Again, let me state that I mean no disrespect, but I just want to express my frustration. I am glad that some one like Seth is actively trying to make an automation program that stands out from the rest. Now having said that, as a customer these are just my thoughts.

  11. Should be beta

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Im going to be a big dick right now and say that uBot should only cost $50 and have a big "beta" label slapped on it.

     

    This program has AMAZING potential, but I feel like Im spending most of my time finding creative ways to work around its limitations. If uBot was cheaper I would just deal with it, but considering that I paid $200 Im starting to get extremely frustrated.

  13. interest in a ubot marketplace?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Im a web developer and recently became addicted to ubot. I find myself creating bots for the most useless tasks simply because I can :)

     

    Anyways, I've noticed a HUGE lack in available bots, paid or free. Im a member of all of the main seo forums and there is always a huge demand for automation scripts. So I was wondering if there would be any interest in a sort of ubot repository?

     

    I was thinking of different methods to keep the content of quality such as:

    • user must submit a bot go gain access to other bots
    • paid membership (profit sharing with bot authors)
    • pay per bot (author of the bot keeps the money)
    • etc

     

    Think of it like the apple app store but for ubot

     

    Would anybody have any interest in something like this? It could be a way to encourage more bot development if there was a chance to profit from it. I could have something put together in a matter of days. I have promoted several sites in forums and know that if the content is there the site could be a success. So if anyone has any thoughts/ideas/feedback... :)

  15. Looping through a list randomly

    in Scripting

    Posted

    I just ran into a situation where I needed a "remove from list" function... I guess it doesn't exist, so I had to create a really redundant process to duplicate the goal. So here is the idea in case anyone else needs to remove from list.

     

    Create 2 lists, both being identical. At the top of your loop for the first list, create a variable "#currentItem -> next list item". Every time the script loops through your list "#currentItem" will contain... the current item. At the bottom of your loop for the first list, start a second loop using your second list. At the top of this list do the same as before, create a variable "#otherItems -> next list item". The KEY part to this is an "if statement" in your second list that says " if (NOT (#currentItem = #otherItems)) then (add to list %firstlist ( #otherItems ) ).

     

    So each time you loop through the main list, the current list item will be removed and wont be part of the list for the second rotation. I hope that was clear enough :)

    Comment type node

    in UBot Studio Feature Suggestions

    Posted

    Just like when you add an "if" statement and there are already placeholder nodes ready to be populated, it would be nice if there was a comment function of some kind. Im working on a rather complicated bot at the moment and its easy to get lost in a sea of nodes. A few comments here and there would really make retracing my thoughts later much easier.

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