screen-scraper FAQ - Troubleshooting
Questions where, trying to do something, you have run into a problem. Now what do you do to fix it?
- How do I resolve connection issues when trying to scrape a site that uses SSL?
- My update was cancelled prematurely. How do I restore screen-scraper?
- I've just upgraded to an alpha version of screen-scraper, but it has bugs. How to I downgrade back to a more stable version?
- I'm getting an exception that says something like "Too many files open." How do I fix this?
- I've changed the ports, but I still get an error message about port binding. Why?
- How do I update a script whose "Overwrite this script on import" box is unchecked when screen-scraper is on a GUI-less server?
- How do I transfer my scraping sessions and other objects from one machine to another?
- When I export my scraping session I get a zero-byte file. What am I doing wrong?
- When I try to connect to the screen-scraper server from my application it refuses connections. How do I fix this?
- screen-scraper is telling me that it can't bind to certain ports. How do I fix this?
- screen-scraper is telling me that it can't connect to its database or that the database is corrupted. How do I fix this?
- The site I'm trying to scrape is telling me that cookies need to be enabled. How to I fix this?
- How do I handle international character encoding issues?
- How do I update to the latest alpha release?
- When using screen-scraper's proxy server my browser hangs or I don't see anything in my proxy session. How do I fix this?
- At times screen-scraper seems to stop working and my computer starts beeping. What's wrong?
- I get an error like this when I run a script: "undefined variable or class name: dataSet". What's wrong?
- What character sets does screen-scraper support?