Loop through search results then stop once certain text is found...

[wizeone17 7]

Hey Guys,

 

My heads about to explode here. I'm looping through search results page and I need to stop loop once a specific text is found. I tried loop, exist and loop while exist but before loop even begins the process it stops.

 

Can someone give me an idea of what would work?

 

Thanks,

Wize

[stanf 43]

try this

scrape search results tp a list

then loop thru the list

 

set(#keep looping, "yes", "Global")
loop while($comparison(#keep looping, "=", "yes")) {
    if($comparison("the item we are looking at", "=", "the thing we are looking for")) {
        then {
            set(#keep looping, "no", "Global")
        }
        else {
            comment("keep looking")
        }
    }
}

[Enigma 78]

Hey Guys,

 

My heads about to explode here. I'm looping through search results page and I need to stop loop once a specific text is found. I tried loop, exist and loop while exist but before loop even begins the process it stops.

 

Can someone give me an idea of what would work?

 

Thanks,

Wize

 

Use loop while NOT exist...

[wizeone17 7]

try this

scrape search results tp a list

then loop thru the list

 

set(#keep looping, "yes", "Global")

loop while($comparison(#keep looping, "=", "yes")) {

    if($comparison("the item we are looking at", "=", "the thing we are looking for")) {

        then {

            set(#keep looping, "no", "Global")

        }

        else {

            comment("keep looking")

        }

    }

}

 

Thanks, will give this a shot stanf.

[wizeone17 7]

Use loop while NOT exist...

 

Hey Enigma, I also tried this ,the funny thing is it works but it keeps killing my regular expression and doesn't scrapes the links any longer. I'm scratching my head on this one.

[Enigma 78]

Hey Enigma, I also tried this ,the funny thing is it works but it keeps killing my regular expression and doesn't scrapes the links any longer. I'm scratching my head on this one.

 

Loop while not exist has nothing to do with a regular expression so there must be something else wrong.

[wizeone17 7]

Loop while not exist has nothing to do with a regular expression so there must be something else wrong.

 

Yea I know, that's why I'm scratching my head on this.. Thanks buddy.

[UBotDev 276]

Use loop while NOT exist...

I was also using that but after a time found out that it can be problematic. If you use "close page" command and after that "loop while->$not->$exists" UBot will be waiting at exist statement for about 30 seconds, because page was closed and no HTML is there (page could be also empty in some other cases).

 

Because of that I think it's better to use the approach that Stanf pointed out and use navigate command before using $not->$exist.

[theninjamanz 29]

Can't you just cycle the URLS and then use $exists against the variable and then stop script?

[wizeone17 7]

Use loop while NOT exist...

 

Thanks Enigma it worked out great, the problem wasn't with the regular expression it was another problem. Works like a charm!

[wizeone17 7]

Can't you just cycle the URLS and then use $exists against the variable and then stop script?

Thanks ninjamanz I got it working correctly.

[Enigma 78]

Thanks Enigma it worked out great, the problem wasn't with the regular expression it was another problem. Works like a charm!

Ok man, great it works now.