Testing on multiple machines
I have a co-worker who wants to look at the extracted data and patterns from a scraping session that I have created. He installed screen scraper on his local machine and imported what I have created. We set up the proxy and did all the steps that were outlined in the tutorials; however, when he looks at the text file created and applies the pattern he is getting an empty set of data where I have data in the patterns. As a test he created a new scrape file and copied one patteren over. After running that he started seeing data for that session variable. Does he have to re-create all the extractor patterns on his local machine to test the results? Or what is the piece that I am missing with this?
Regards,
Kelly
Testing on multiple machines
Scot,
Both versions are the same. They were installed from a central location on one of the servers. Any ideas as to what else could be the issue.
Testing on multiple machines
Kelly,
This may happen if you're not using the same version of screen-scraper. if this is the case, please back up your scraping sessions and upgrade to 4.0 by following the instructions here.
http://screen-scraper.com/support/faq/faq.php#Version4
Another way to share scraping sessions (though it's not ideal) would be to replace the contents of your /resources/db/ folder with his. This will, of course, write over everything you have in your database so be sure to make a back up copy of your directory beforehand.
If you are using the same version then we'd need to look into this further.
Thanks,
Scott