Why does full automation break this script ?

[carlstarus 2]

Hi guy's,

 

Today I have another weird one... I need to track the indexing of a growing number of websites. I normally use the "site:domainname.com" command in Google to see how many pages are indexed for a particular domain on any given day. I can no longer afford to do this by hand and built the following script...

 

ui stat monitor("Number of sites to check: {$list total(%SitesList)}", "")
ui stat monitor("Current site: ", $replace(#CurrentSite, "site:", $nothing))
set(#SitesToCheck, "{$nothing}{$replace($get files("{$special folder("Desktop")}\\INDEXING", "No"), ".csv", $nothing)}", "Global")
add list to list(%SitesList, $list from text(#SitesToCheck, "
"), "Delete", "Global")
set(#SitesToCheck, $nothing, "Global")
navigate("http://google.com", "Wait")
wait for element(<name="q">, "", "Appear")
set(#CurrentSite, "site:{$list item(%SitesList, 0)}", "Global")
loop($list total(%SitesList)) {
    set(#CurrentSite, "site:{$next list item(%SitesList)}", "Global")
    wait($rand(1, 3))
    navigate("http://google.com", "Wait")
    type text(<name="q">, #CurrentSite, "Standard")
    click(<name="btnG">, "Left Click", "No")
    set(#results, $scrape attribute(<id="resultStats">, "innertext"), "Global")
    set(#results, $replace($replace regular expression(#results, "About (.\{1,\}) results.\{1,\}", "$1"), ",", $nothing), "Global")
    wait(1)
    alert(#results)
}
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Now here's the really, really strange bit...

 

When I run the script "step by step", it pop ups an alert box with the number of pages indexed, yet whenever I try to run the full script the popup (alert box), is empty. I don't think it's a problem with memory either. I have an 8 Gig Windows 7 Machine. Does this kind of thing happen more often ? What could be the problem here?

 

All suggestions are welcome 

 

Thanks for reading my post.

Edited October 19, 2013 by carlstarus

[pftg4 102]

after you click the button you probably need a wait before you scrape the results try that not at home right now

 

 

 

pftg4

[carlstarus 2]

Wow... that did the trick... Thanks pftg4.

Edited October 19, 2013 by carlstarus

[pftg4 102]

np glad to help

[Black Automation 20]

Yes a simple "wait" should fix this issue.