Bug Importing Scripts v4.5
I exported 3 scraping sessions from Pro 4.5 running on Windows XP to be imported into Basic 4.5 running on Ubuntu server (no GUI). When I place the scraping sessions and scripts into the import directory and run one of the scraping sessions none of my scripts run.
If I import the sessions and scripts in to a Pro 4.5 on Ubuntu server (no GUI) the same thing happens; my scripts don't run. The only way I've found to make this work is to copy the sessions and scripts to the import directory, run a scraping session, then copy the same sessions and scripts to the import directory again and then the scripts will run. Basically I have to do the import twice to make the scripts run.
The problem I have is that I want to run this on basic for now (before I drop more money on another Pro instance), but since I can only import 3 total scraping sessions I can't do the import twice. I get an error message telling me that I can only have 3 scraping sessions.
Is this a bug? Is there something I'm doing wrong?
Thanks
Charles
We recently pinned down the
We recently pinned down the problem, which is quite obscure, indeed. You're observant to catch on to the bug ;)
There should be an alpha update that fixes this issue, which the Pro editions will be able to make use of. I'm pretty sure the problem was in the importing process, and that it isn't a defect in the exported file. Basic can't upgrade to alpha releases, but at the very least, sessions that are exported by Basic will not suffer from the problem. (I hope that made sense, if not, I can certainly have another go at it :) )
If you have a GUI for any of those instances, you can use the checkbox in the settings labeled "Allow upgrading to unstable versions". Selecting "Check for updates" from the options menu should now prompt you for an update.
For those servers that don't have a GUI handy, you can use this form to manually fill out info:
http://screen-scraper.com/screen-scraper/updates/
Just be sure to put a check on that final checkbox about including unstable updates.
It'll try to fire off the download of a file for you, but I prefer to copy the URL and use a commandline "wget" on the server to grab down the file our website tries to give you.
Once it's downloaded, just place the zip file in the ss_install_directory/update/ directory. Starting the server will cause this zip file to be unpacked into screen-scraper, thus manually updating your installation.
Hope that helps! It was a real pain of a bug until I finally figured out how to reproduce it!
Tim