Questions before I buy

[caveman 0]

Can someone help me understand the limitations of ubot by letting me know if it can handles these hypothetical scenarios?

 

Can ubot...

 

* go to a webpage and download any PDFs it finds to a folder?

* search for goldfish on Google images and download the first 3 pages of images to a folder?

* search for goldfish on Google images and download only images with the word 'fish' in the filename?

* scrape the product names and prices of an ecommerce competitor and output to a csv?

* check each page of a website for empty <title></title> tags, and output to a csv?

* use a min-max random delay between actions e.g. RAND(3, 6)

* use regex to select elements/attributes?

 

Finally, do you need an active internet connection at all times to run ubot? Or can it run offline?

 

Thanks in advance!

[sonneti 0]

Can someone help me understand the limitations of ubot by letting me know if it can handles these hypothetical scenarios?

 

Can ubot...

 

* go to a webpage and download any PDFs it finds to a folder?

* search for goldfish on Google images and download the first 3 pages of images to a folder?

* search for goldfish on Google images and download only images with the word 'fish' in the filename?

* scrape the product names and prices of an ecommerce competitor and output to a csv?

* check each page of a website for empty <title></title> tags, and output to a csv?

* use a min-max random delay between actions e.g. RAND(3, 6)

* use regex to select elements/attributes?

 

Finally, do you need an active internet connection at all times to run ubot? Or can it run offline?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

 

Yeah I think this is all possible.. not sure what regex is but you can easily search and select for attributes on a page.

 

Not sure how I would go about downloading .pdf's but you could create a list of them quite easily & then rip later.

 

Don't forget there is a 30 day money back guarantee.

[alcr 135]

* go to a webpage and download any PDFs it finds to a folder?

 

I'm unaware if it can actually download them (it can gather them together to a list though), we have a discussion in another thread here about the matter though. http://ubotstudio.com/forum/index.php?/topic/2770-automating-file-download-in-ie

 

* search for goldfish on Google images and download the first 3 pages of images to a folder?

 

Yes

 

* search for goldfish on Google images and download only images with the word 'fish' in the filename?

 

Yes

 

* scrape the product names and prices of an ecommerce competitor and output to a csv?

 

Depends on how you write the bot? But probably yes.

 

* check each page of a website for empty <title></title> tags, and output to a csv?

 

Not at the moment, the title tag is in the head, not in the body. But this will probably come in the future.

 

* use a min-max random delay between actions e.g. RAND(3, 6)

 

I guess so. Never used that function myself though. Someone else around here might know.

 

* use regex to select elements/attributes?

 

Regex?

[caveman 0]

Sorry guys... regex = regular expressions for pattern matching

[Lord Brar 107]

BTW yes, you can easily scrape content from the ecommerce site. Here is a tutorial Aaron made about it -- http://www.ubottutorials.com/navigating-site-scraping-product-data.html

 

And yes, regular expressions are totally okay. Let me know if there is anything else we can answer for you.

[caveman 0]

Thanks guys, that's really helpful.

 

Just tge final question however... Do you need to be connected to the web to use ubot?

[Lord Brar 107]

Just tge final question however... Do you need to be connected to the web to use ubot?

 

Yes. Actually UBot Studio is all about browser manipulation, so I don't really know why would you not want to be connected to the internet when using it.

[reanimate 0]

Been reading around about UBot and overall feedback seems good, but I have a big concern which is how well it works for saving images and other files off the web.

 

Let's say I have a list of URLs to visit. Each page has 1-3 images on it. With UBot will it be possible to automatically save those images and give them each a custom name, using the URL name as a variable for example?

[Aaron Nimocks 19]

Been reading around about UBot and overall feedback seems good, but I have a big concern which is how well it works for saving images and other files off the web.

 

Let's say I have a list of URLs to visit. Each page has 1-3 images on it. With UBot will it be possible to automatically save those images and give them each a custom name, using the URL name as a variable for example?

 

Yes, that is what is good about UBot for scraping images is you have full control over the filename. So it can be anything you want really.

[hannahmcintyre 2]

* use a min-max random delay between actions e.g. RAND(3, 6)

 

I guess so. Never used that function myself though. Someone else around here might know.

Yeah, this is really easy to do. I do this after almost every command to make account creation look more random.

[caveman 0]

Yes. Actually UBot Studio is all about browser manipulation, so I don't really know why would you not want to be connected to the internet when using it.

 

Very good point!

 

I'll have a look at the many tutorials and decide if it can save me time/money/headache. Thanks again everyone - this forum adds oodles of value to the product.

[UKMagento 0]

i think you can use both uBot and regex to help you in running your ecommerce site.

[joshua 1]

use a min-max random delay between actions e.g. RAND(3, 6)

 

i am using random delays in my bots and it works great.