Why Doesn't This Work?

[botmaker7 5]

This is so basic it seems it should work but it doesn't:

set user agent("Android")
navigate("http://www.google.com/alerts", "Wait")
if($comparison($search page("Sign In"), "=", $true)) {
    then {
        alert("yes")
    }
    else {
        alert("no")
    }
}

When I CTRL + F in Firefox it finds 'Sign In' no problem but Ubot doesn't seem to.

 

Any ideas?

[UBotDev 276]

The problem is that the page doesn't load instantly and you actually need to wait for the page to load. The safest way to do this is to use "wait for element" command right after "navigate" command, but FYI there are also other wait commands that you can use.

[botmaker7 5]

hey man! long time no talk!!

 

what you recommended doesn't seem to fix it for me. I added the line:

wait for element($element offset(<login link>, 0), "", "Appear")

right under the navigate command but it still alerts "no"

[a2mateit 395]

Hey botmaker,

 

Use exists instead of comparison.

 

 

Working code

set user agent("Android")
navigate("http://www.google.com/alerts", "Wait")
if($exists(<innertext="Sign in">)) {
    then {
        alert("yes")
    }
    else {
        alert("no")
    }
}

[nuc63 27]

Having search page for "sign in" is to generic. The words can be in muliplte spots on page thus giving bad results. Thats why exist works better.

[UBotDev 276]

hey man! long time no talk!!

 

what you recommended doesn't seem to fix it for me. I added the line:

wait for element($element offset(<login link>, 0), "", "Appear")

right under the navigate command but it still alerts "no"

Ah right, I didn't even notice...a2mateit is right. You should use $exist command instead of  comparsion->search page.

 

But still, you need that "wait for element" command.

[botmaker7 5]

Cool I've never used that command.

 

Thanks guys!!

[vonnch 1]

Thanks for the command too. I got it working on other usage. 

[a2mateit 395]

Hey guys don't forget to check out the wiki and watch all of ubots tutorials.

 

There are probably a bunch of other commands your not aware exist as well