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I know that this is an old thread, but damn, solved my problem! This one should be stickied. It clearly shows how to pass variables into and out of a slice of javascript. Frank

I'd actually like to offer up a different solution (funny how something lands in your lap when you are trying to think it out, lol). I suggest that we pool our resources. I'm currently building a bot that will log into cpanel and setup a 10MB password using the 'create account' setup in ubot. It's superfast and just works. Here's my suggestion. I need to find 20 or so email sounding domains, such as the one I run, mycollegemail.com, and will use them to setup emails for web 2.0 properties and bookmarking. Now, if there are a few of you out there who would offer up access to their email

Yea, have to agree with you BotBuddy. Wordpress in version 3 is also getting bloated. I had to manually reset the settings on wp-cron.php as it is getting bloated. Damn. Also automating wordpress is a severe pain in the a** with any tools, including ubot. Not ubot's fault, but why couldn't they create a simpler interface for automation or present clear hooks that we could use to automate all the tasks. Well, I guess lipstick is more important then personality. Frank

I've encountered this as well. Basically what seems to be occurring is that the web page gives an all done loading but it basically hasn't javascript running in ajax is one of the culprits. I may be wrong on this but the second wait finish or using a wait until something shows up on the page or a delay seems to be the answer. Frank

As to squidoo, they have purposefully made them selfs a pain the rear by constantly changing small unseen but critical for automation elements. Seems that godaddy is following that stream too. BTW, I didn't get banned from squidoo by doing many many accounts while setting things up. Once I was originally done, I did the sites that mattered with proxies. That is until they changed the damn site again. I'd like to comment to Niall, I would actually have to disagree. This tool really does speak to the internet marketer. In no business can you just have the ability to hire high priced help

And that Irobot is the most important point of this whole tutorial. Great point. Frank

John, I"m going to take the cheater way out of this one. Try it. This method isn't set in stone and there is tons of room for optimization and code trickery. Frank

You are 100% correct! Actually this advice goes with anything worthwhile! Hey Steve, you are correct, this is a tough site. I had completed a full squidoo bot and bamn, they changed their site. I've been monitoring this site and they really like to change things around to mess up automation, on a constant basis. Frank

Yep, gave you my best stuff! No secrets now! Or is there? Frank

Hmmm. The table feature is pretty cool, but there are definitely a few commands that need to come. clear table, next table item (and you have to assign the seperate values in a row) Hmm, I'm wondering if it's just easier to use two lists? Frank

Yes, the main reason for this tut was to present a way to simplify larger bots. I've had several ask how to do this - even experienced bot programmers. Cheers, Frank

Hey guys and gals. Time as come to finally post a tutorial on something that I've been asked about many, many times. How does one manage a large complex bot for the long term? Easy - break it into manageable pieces. I'm a firm believer that a video speaks better then what I can type, so you can watch the low res version here or go to www.ubotjunkie.com and check out the two part video series I created on this specific topic. Part 1 of 2 of Advanced Ubot Tutorials on UbotJunkie.com Part 2 of 2 Advanced Ubot Tutorials on UbotJunkie.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkvWvooK-mg http://www

Hey Biks, the next step would be to head over to the external keyword research tool from google and do just that. Pump the keywords in and pull out volume keywords. Frank

One thing that I have noticed is that some bots that I originally developed on 3.1 will mess up a command here and there on 3.3. Not very often though. Your fix is perfect, remove the command and redo it. Frank

Remember where the 'thread' command came from. There was a small bug in the 3.1 version of ubot and you could like on buttons and such on a page and the code would continue to wait for things like a page refresh or something. With 3.3, this was 'fixed' and ubot was having issues. Seth then created the 'thread' command to allow you to perform an action that would hang ubot but threading it off to another thread allows ubot to continue and wait for the necessary information. Make sense? Frank

Hey Dave, I tried just about everything and came up with nothing. Not sure if it's a ubot glitch or a very well crafted webpage. Frank

Hmmmm. Time to send some forum spam. MOoohaaahaha.. Anybody need some viagra? Frank

Here's a stronger challenge for you all. Try to scrape the keyword suggestions out of yahoo! The code on the page is obsured and changes so scraping for me has been pretty much impossible so far. But I shall not give up!! Frank

Darn! I didn't know about the special keys that you can send, as a keydown! I had all the rest figured out and was stuck trying to get that stupid box to show up. I had resolved that I'd have to pick through the google cryptic js. Thanks very much for that! Helps me in a lot of places. Frank

I too would like to learn how to do just this. I cannot seem to find that code that is firing that box. Hints, tips, ideas anyone? Frank

This is not uncommon. Most trojans run the way ubot does - with automation. Very annoying for sure. Frank

Good stuff NM! Once you've sold one, you'll be hooked for good! Just like bad crack man. Frank

Ya, ubot is really a great tool. I've had it now for close to 5 months - best software purchase in 5 years, for sure! Frank

Yea, this is something that the ubot team are working on. There is a pretty strong possibility that things with flash in them will require some sort of image recognition or the such. Here's an example from another site: http://www.iopus.com/imacros/help/index.htm?ir_flash_test_example.htm Frank

Yes you folks are right, but the question wasn't about automating browser activities, but automating file activities. Truly, ubot can do these things but it's definitely not the strong point of ubot. The program I mentioned is much better at this task, plus others. And I won't deny that ubot absolutely shines at browser automation! Frank