Frank

Truth be known, I got tired of fooling with other developers and automated programs, so I made a small compromise. I had dreamweaver mx4 already, so I learnt how to use it to build php/mysql apps with it. Was quite a profitable venture in the long run, to be sure! Plus I know enough php and mysql to be verrrrrry dangerous! Frank

Careful, Odesk is good, but remember that you always, (and I mean always) get what you've paid for! An alternative is to hunt around for a program that will help you build your php/mysql site in a more automated fashion. Frank

REally rethink the scraping. See if you can select the descriptions via 'choose by attribute' command and then scrape the text to a list via the 'add to list' and 'scrape choosen attribute' (inner text). If possible, voila, no html code. If you'd like, PM me the page and I'll try. Frank

Real time saver too probably! I'd love to be able to run concurrent scrapes to speed things up. Frank

Ok, I think that you are very much overthinking this process. When posting an article, you'll be placing the article into 'a' category, correct? Let's assume that you are. You've checked a checkbox to select that category. Now, assign a variable to the category selection, like #category When it comes time to select the category on the page, select a category by right clicking on the category name in the add post window. You'll see immediately, that you are selecting the 'label'. Go up one level and select 'li'. Now, if you do a choose by attribute, the inner text will show you the

The easiest way is to do a temporary assignment with the next list item to a variable. Then call the variable. I do this all the time and it works 100% Frank

Please offer up the page you are having troubles with and that will allow us to better get a grasp of the problem. Cheers! Frank

Hey all, Has anyone cut any videos (beyond the initial two by Seth I believe) on the new commands within 3.3? I'd like to properly learn how to use the 'thread' and 'use sub window' command to their best. Thanks! Frank

You will encounter big troubles using this idea. There is a built-in command in ubot to do exactly what you want. Hover over the next bubble to add in the wait command. Right click and under 'Flow Commands' you'll find a 'Wait Finish' command. That's the one! This command will wait for the page to finish loading or 30 seconds, whatever happens first. If you find a page still isn't ready after 30 seconds, you can increase the delay in this command. Frank

Hey Jack, Exactly the question we all ask. Please allow me to help you as I think I've found a technique that works very well. 1. 10,000 level Investigate what you want to do at the 10,000 foot level. Pencil and paper are your friend! sketch out the basic flow of what's to happen. 2. Dig deep with seperate scripts. Use the power of scripts to test functionality by itself. You'll want to figure out each chunk of what you want to do by itself. Make sure you encapsulate your sections within subroutines. This way you can copy and paste the subroutine, once working, from one script or bot to

I just peeked at your snapshot. Seperate the two steps, the save and the replace. Frank

I've encountered this in the past too. Try scraping the attribute differently. Sometimes moving to the next level on the html code on the top of the box that comes up when you right click the thing on the page you want to scrape can do it. An alternative is to, after you scrape, create a tempoary list/variable and do a loop if it's a list, then perform a simple select each element and do a replace and save it to the temp variable/loop. Clear the original list and copy the temp list to the list. Done! Frank

No, it's designed to be a time lock feature only. I'm looking into building a full blown licensing system that depends upon a backend service, but it needs $$$ and time to happen. Frank

Good day fellow ubot'ers! I've been writing bot scripts for various people for a few months now and I really wanted to find a way to protect my bots from theft but permit an interested person to try the bot, so to speak. Well, I've finally stopped dragging my heals and done just that! I've created a script that can be placed into any bot and automatically protect a bot from being run if it is beyond a certain predefined date! Also, I've set up this script to start to throw messages to the user as they approach the end date of the bot's license life. For example, when they only have 5 day

That's a good point. I'm finding more and more things that I'm continuously recycling. Starting to save my popular subroutines in a common bot. What I'd love to see is a way to print out my bots. That way I can keep a paper record of the bots so I can program for them. Frank

Hey Sputnik, Can I post your idea on my website, www.ubotjunkie.com? Love to make a video of it as a ubot tutorial on tinymce. That way I don't forget how to do it, lol! Hey, If so, can I get your real name? Frank

Sputnik, I think we all owe you one of your favorite beverage! Works like a charm!!! I've attached a small script for articlesbase.com overcoming articlesbase tinymce boxes - yay sputnik13.ubot Cheers and thanks mate! Frank

To be honest, the bot you are looking for would easily be a couple of days work. I for one would probably be charging close to $1,500 for something like this - just so you know. Don't want to shy you away, but learning the logic is actually quite easy - with practice. Pick a smaller project and work on that first. If you need something that's more project like and teach as you do, check out the tutorials that I'm putting together on www.ubotjunkie.com. If there's anything you get stuck on, just ask. Frank

Right now, no. You can go to a web mail type of interface, but I too would love that type of functionality. Frank

Good suggestion. Firebug is your friend. You'll need to take some time to understand it, but it will help you greatly. Also, pull up the page in internet explorer and look at the page source. Use the search feature to find text around the problem child and see what you can see. Also, don't be afraid to use the different identifiers you can access in the 'choose attributes' to select <a> tags, <span> tags and the such. Your answer at times comes with a bit of hunting! I took a peek myself and you are definitely going to need to hunt the code on the page to see what javascript i

Hi Jewcat, Thanks for your comment, and I may have found a way to do just that. I'll be experiementing in future days to create a better gui. But the gui is vitally important, in my opinion. Being a bot seller, the looks to the user are important. Frank

I just pulled your variable and ran it in a simple bot and it works 100%. Here's the bot that I created: Set - #var1 to $ Set - #var2 to 'your string' set - #temp to $eval - "{1}".indexOf("{2}") where 1 is var2 and 2 is var1 Frank

Maybe scrape the text into a list using a new line as the delimiter? Just a thought. Frank

Very good feature. Sometimes when you are automating Google, the screen delays but about 35-40 seconds. I'll normally bump up the delay to 90 seconds for google. Keeps the bot working 100%! Frank

Currently trying to convince the support guys to let us turn off the top section in ubot and drive ubot with a builtin web page! Very exciting. Frank