Jroma 0 Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 Hey i am just building a scraping bot, and i ran into a large stumbling block. IN the ubot website viewer window a specific button does not work. I can do it just fine in my browser, but when i try to do it by hand in the ubot viewer window, nothing happens. . . and i don't mean this with selecting and clicking attributes with the bot, I mean I click it by hand and it doesn't work. Any ideas why. . . You can check it yourself at the site whopaidme dot com Go down to the show me (input) results. . and attempt to enter a number and click the arrow button. The strange thing is that all other input boxes work. I can enter data and click and it goes. . but with that particular one. . i get nothing. This has me puzzled as to why it won't work in the ubot window at all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alcr 135 Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 It is some sort of javascript link.<A onmouseover="showMeGetTitle(this, this.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode)" title="Show me 15 results" onclick="showMeSize('/filter/newsite/','newsite')" href="javascript: void(0);" value="15">»</A> I'm no javascript guru really. But send 'Jim' here on a forum if no one else can help you. He is a GOD with stuff like this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JohnB 255 Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 wow, I played with this for about an hour and a half, and it just doesn't work. not even by running the javascript...bizarre Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jroma 0 Posted June 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2010 wow, I played with this for about an hour and a half, and it just doesn't work. not even by running the javascript...bizarre Yeah no worries i'm a man of direct problem sovling and after i tried it for 30 min with no luck. .i switched what i did and scraped all data in a different way (copied all links, and coorelated the data properly to suit). I did it by hand . .blat. . but 3 hours spend to get it done beat 3 hours trying to figure out why the heck it wasn't clicking that button. . . If someone does figure it out post it here cause maybe someone may come across a similar problem with a similar site in the future. . but as for me . . data was scraped so case solved. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BotNinja 9 Posted June 25, 2010 Report Share Posted June 25, 2010 I am having exactly the same issue with the "reddit" logout button, works fine in IE8 but not in UBot browser or vb.net webbrowser control either. (which are both a stripped down IE8 or whatever IE version is on your pc) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alcr 135 Posted June 26, 2010 Report Share Posted June 26, 2010 I am having exactly the same issue with the "reddit" logout button, works fine in IE8 but not in UBot browser or vb.net webbrowser control either. (which are both a stripped down IE8 or whatever IE version is on your pc)Try compiling the bot / running the code in a subwindow! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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