screen-scraper public support

Good morning!

I am attempting to install screen-scraper under PCLinuxOS 2007 and am getting errors when running the install. These errors occur whether I am root or a user.

I tried the commands that are generating the errors (awk, basename, etc..) from a prompt and they work fine. The shared libraries referenced exist in /lib and are readable and executable.

I was wondering if you've seen these kind or errors before and have any ideas as to how to resolve them.

Thanks,
Steve

Is there a way within a script to test for the existence of a warning message in a scrape session?

The warning that interests me most at this moment is
[b]Warning! The operation timed out while applying the extractor pattern.[/b]

In an ideal world it would be great to know which extractor/sub-extractor pattern timed out, but here in the pseudo-real-world, just being able to branch when the warning message surfaces would help a lot.

TIA.

Dave Nuttall
San Antonio, TX

I am using screen-scraper basic edition, and when I follow the documentation for creating a Windows Scheduled Task, I seem to hit a wall. Apparently, my screen-scraper.jar does not exist. I was curious if this was do to my version (the basic version) or perhaps because I am not following the code correctly.

I am attempting to write this using C#, and this is the current code used:

In PHP I can do
if (stristr($myString, "findThis")) $myString = str_replace("arrayofSearches"," arrayofReplacements",$myString);

Is there something similar in Interpreted Java in SS?
Or even a strip_tags($myString, ""); ?

Using strip html in the Token edit causes
tags when saved to a file to be replaced with \n and it also does not seem to strip partial tag matches:

some text
or
some text

I can't match between the

as the tags only appear in some of the entries and not others.

Thank you,

I have a SS application that runs fine under SS 2.72, both on Windows and Linux, but when I export it from 2.72 and import under 3.x, the extractor functions fail miserably.

Perhaps there is/was some "readme" that I've missed? Or, some undocumented feature?

Thanks.
Dave

I have a new application that seems to need a function that doesn't "pop out" at me from the documentation.

I would call it: [b] unSetAllSessionVariables(); [/b]

I'm getting carry over when session variables are set to optional (which they need to be) but we don't want to carry the prior data forward which seems to be the result when a value is discovered in one session, but not in the next.

Hi,

Howdy. I am a first-time user for screen-scraper, and have found the tutorials most helpful. However, I cannot get my head around why what I am currently doing is not working.

I've got a form I'm posting a few (ok, 45) parameters to, and everything looks like it should be cool. I'm looking at the post parameters in HTTPSPY and in the screenscraper request and their pretty much the same...

.. except screen scraper is saying it's a Multi-part entity. What might I be doing to cause this?

([yyy] are urls/paths removed from this example.)

ss:

I've updated my "test machine" from CentOS 4.x to CentOS 5 and have total failure with SS because it seems to no longer find the "libc.so.6" and related files/directories.

/lib/libc.so.6 is linked to libc-2.5.so while in CentOS 4 I think it was libc-2.3.4.so

I sense that there is something in the SS configuration that needs to be changed, but being a complete "JI" (Java Idiot?! lol)
Laughing), I decided to post here before hacking too much!

Please e-mail or post if you can suggest what to do.

Dave Nuttall
San Antonio, Texas