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[stan beck]

UBot Newbie here - just asking for some general direction...

I need to create a bot which performs repetative tasks in wordpress - basically cycling through every post and clicking a button.

I need a loop. The only thing that I can tell on the Wordpress post page is when it comes to the last page, the right 'arrow' buttons (one is 1 page forward and the 2nd is to the end) are greyed out. Not sure how to harness that yet.

I also need to click on each link to go into the post.

Then I need to click on the the target button.

Then I need to exit out of that post and go to the next and repeat, until it gets to the last listing on a page, and then it needs to click the right arrow to go to the next page.

Thank you.

Regards,

Stan

[JohnB]

Hi Stan.

Are you talking about interacting with the front end of WP blogs or the backend?

John

[stan beck]

Hi John,

This is all backend work...

When I scrape a page of links, they, as a whole, are inserted into a single list array item (http://screencast.com/t/WAFKkS9N). So, when I want to traverse through the list to visit the links (in my case), it navigates to a full string of urls, which will never resolve...

Here is my code for your kind consideration...


define initialize everything {
clear list(%LPN Page Links)
clear cookies
}
define navigate to and login {
navigate("http://sanantonio.em...e.com/wp-admin", "Wait")
type text(<username field>, "admin", "Standard")
type text(<password field>, "adminfakepassword", "Standard")
click(<login button>, "Left Click", "No")
wait(3)
click($element offset(<class="wp-has-submenu wp-not-current-submenu menu-top menu-icon-local-page">, 1), "Left Click", "No")
}
define scrape lpn links {
wait(5)
loop(4) {
wait(4)
add item to list(%LPN Page Links, $scrape attribute(<outerhtml=w"<a href=\"http://*/wp-admin/post.php?post=*&amp;action=edit\" title=\"Edit this item\">Edit</a>">, "fullhref"), "Don\'t Delete", "Global")
wait(2)
click($element offset(<class="next-page">, 0), "Left Click", "No")
}
wait(3)
}
define process lpn links {
loop(2) {
navigate($next list item(%LPN Page Links), "Wait")
}
}
divider
initialize everything()
navigate to and login()
scrape lpn links()
process lpn links()

Thanks very much!

Stan

[stan beck]

Any thoughts?

[JohnB]

Change add item to list to add list to list.

John

[stan beck]

Change add item to list to add list to list.

John

Hi John,

Thanks for the response.

I don't quite understand. 'Add List to List' requires 2 lists, does it not? - I'm scraping urls from a page and adding them to a list.

When I put in the 'Add List to List', the only paramaters/options I have is a list (top and bottom) - I tried to put in a '$scrape attribute', but it's not taking it.

I must be missing something.

Thanks,

Stan

[stan beck]

Hi John,

Thanks for the response.

I don't quite understand. 'Add List to List' requires 2 lists, does it not? - I'm scraping urls from a page and adding them to a list.

When I put in the 'Add List to List', the only paramaters/options I have is a list (top and bottom) - I tried to put in a '$scrape attribute', but it's not taking it.

I must be missing something.

Thanks,

Stan

Nevermind, it's taking the scrape attribute afterall - not sure what I was doing before...

[JohnB]

Ok...it definitely works....whenever you use add item to list, even if you have 1000 items it treats them as a single item.


John