When does an imported scraping session become effective?
I imported a scraping session onto a server that has the screen-scraper service running. The scraping session still doesn't work and I'm not sure if it is because of a program error or if it is because the service is not using the new scraping session.
When does an imported scraping session become effective? Do I have to stop and restart the service to make new scraping sessions effective after importing them?
Gary, Either way you import
Gary,
Either way you import your scrape, whether it be by placing the scraping session in the import folder or by using the import feature of the web interface, the new scraping session will be used the next time you run any scrape. That is, when you start a scraping session, screen-scraper first checks to see if there is anything in the import folder to be imported.
To verify whether the scraping session your expecting to be used is being used, you can write some message to the log and then check the log for that message.
-Scott