Thanks Jag!!

 Thank you Jag, what an awesome library of jobs!

Jag,

I used the "check domain names" script and liked it a lot. I even twisted the script a little bit and included other potential domain endings which I need for my URLs, and it worked like a charm...

However, recently it doesn't work any more. In particular, no data gets extracted to the result file.

I had a look at it and it seems as if the text for which the script is searching ("is available." and "is not available.") doesn't exist in the output html file. At least I couldn't find any occurrence of these words with full stop after them.

I tried to fix the script myself, but I'm somewhat lost with the html output from the domain checker. Could you maybe give me a hint as to how I can fix this?

Thanks in advance,

fantasia

Hey Guys,

I'm new here and I believe this is the product I want BUT I am newer to this and not familiar with some stuff.

What does the "waj" mean inthese files above Check DomainNames.waj and how do I get it to work?

I downloaded it and my computer says it is not reconized

 Hi there! You can import it through the "File - Import Job" menu in WinAutomation's console window. 

yeah, I just figured that out ...thanks!

that was too simple...lol

Hi Fantasia,

The registrar changed the method of retrieving domain name results.

That's why there is a problem. But no worries, it's all fixed now, thanks to Thomas.

The updated job is as attached. Have fun exploring new domain names!

Jag

Hi Jag,

thanks for your help!

fantasia

Hi Jag

The online google results parser isnt working now. I;ve posted about this issue in another thread, but seems that parsing URL's from googles search results has gone a little wonky all over the place. Any ideas what the issue is?

All the best

Barry

 Are you talking about the Search For Meta Based on Keywords job? If yes, I think I know what the problem is. It seems that Google did a small change in the way that links look. You can fix your job just by changing the regular expression in the "Parse Text" action from:

(?<=class=r><a\shref=")(?<Protocol>\w+):\/\/(?<Domain>[\w@][\w.:@]+)\/?[\w\.?=\%&=\-@/$,]*(?="\s)

to:

(?<=class="r"><a\shref=")(?<Protocol>\w+):\/\/(?<Domain>[\w@][\w.:@]+)\/?[\w\.?=\%&=\-@/$,]*(?="\s)

DM...you're a rock star. I would never have figured that out!

It seems from the huge (1o minutes) research I did about this that regex is considered by programmers to be pretty unstable for this type of thing and a HTML parser might be better. What are your thoughts DM and do you know if there are any plans to introduce this in Winauto?

All the best

Barry

ugh...have to go through all my regex files and replace this...so heres a better way I came up with.

Put your regex codes into text files and read from the text files into all your jobs as variables rather than adding them to each job, that way you only need to change the source text file to propogate changes across all jobs if the regex codes change in the future.

The solution with the text file seems pretty neat, especially if you are using the same regular expression in multiple jobs. 

Regarding the other thing that you mentioned, I guess that I would have to agree. Regular expressions are a very trustworthy tool to parse your text, but when it comes to HTML sometimes a web developer changes the code without any notice and this can break regex easily. For me it is not such big a deal since I can spot the change in less than 2 minutes and the changes do not happen so often (especially in large-scale websites like google), so it does not bother me. 

As for the HTML parser, I have heard pretty much the same with every other user that keeps track of the forum and sends the occasional support requests: there will be a significant leap forward with the introduction of WinAutomation v4 and the web recorder that it will include. I do not know any technical information about how they are planning to implement it but I'm guessing that it will be based on DOM (Document Object Model). This means that rather than relying on images, coordinates or text parsing, the web related actions will identify elements (objects) on the page (e.g. Submit Button, Specific Choice in Drop Down List etc). 

Awesome!!

Hey guys and gals....

Regading Jag's CheckForBlogspotReservedNames.waj  i have modified this and it works well.but i want to be able to do this:

Instead of browsing to a txt file with the keywords to check, i want to highlight with my mouse a few keywords (or even one) on a webpage and hit ctrl-c. Then use a keyboard trigger to do the rest of the script.

But i am STUCK on the clipboard. I am not sure why it is not working as i am only eliminating the 'load a txt file' in place of using the CLIPBOARD.

Can anyone give me a direction there please? It works quiet well still but i want to run this JOB in the background and if i goto, say, wordtracker and copy a keyword...i can then (instead of WASTING time pasting the clipboard into a notepad,then saving, then browse to the file just to load ONE keyword...doing via the clipboard would be GREAT.

Thanks... hope that makes sense,

Robbie

LOL...like anything in life HAVE A GO AT IT, and you'll work it out

I worked it out simply by looking at the "paste to text file" example in Intermediate examples folder and THAT did the trick.

so basically NOW, i can copy a list on webpage (ctrl-c) and press my trigger combination and the keywords will have thier spaces removed and each keyword in list checked...then each AVAILABLE domain will open up in a firefox tab ready to register...pretty COOL!!

I really cannot see the point of ubot when it takes, REALLY, literally minutes to create a job like above. Version 4 when it is ready SURELY must ROCK!!  Hurry it UP......pleeeeaasssee

Robbie