How to delete a scrape session from database via command-line
What is the command-line equivalent of deleting a scrape session from the screen-scraper database? With the GUI interface, you just right-click the session you want and choose "delete" from the pop-up menu. How about with command-line Linux? How do you do it?
There's not really a way to
There's not really a way to manage sessions from the command line. In enterprise edition one can use the REST interface, but in other editions you must use the workbench.
I'm using bare Linux
I'm using bare Linux installation with no graphics capability. Can't use workbench.
Is there a way to delete the entire database; have screen scraper re-create empty database; then I'll just re-import the .sss that I need?
It doesn't automatically
It doesn't automatically recreate the database, but I always keep an empty version zipped up to overwrite existing.
the DB is comprised of the ss.* files in screen-scraper/resource/db/ and if you were to get an empty database (from a parallel install) you could do that.
If needed I could send you an empty database. I'd just need to know your edition and where to send it.
Hello. I'm using
Hello. I'm using Professional Edition 5.5 for Linux. Can you send it to [email protected]? Thanks.
If I download a trial version; install it; and copy its empty database, will that also work? Or will the licensed system know its from a trial version and will stop working in 30 days?
If you do the trial version,
If you do the trial version, it will need you to input your email address again to re-register, but that will work.