screen-scraper public support

I am getting into the swing of screen-scraper now. :) I have started to refactor some scripts and wanted to take a simple approach of putting common routines into a library I can call from any of my scripts.

Can I use a source library that my scripts could include? (Simplest!)

Or, do I have to compile a jarfile for JRE 1.4.2?

If so what's the simplest way to start doing that - I want to include calls to various screen-scraper built-ins so I would need to get CLASSPATH correct etc.

Pete
- Not quite a newbie.

i'm running screen-scraper on a server with
Windows Server 2003
Xeobn 3.2Gig
512mb of ram

I have a scraping session that takes 8+ hours to run. What is the best way to optimize screen scraper. What is the best way I can take advantage of the server. Is there a settings file i can edit to take full advantage of the hardware i am using. the guts of the scraping session is as follows
[quote]//Assign session its own thread
$session->setDoLazyScrape(true);

Hi -

I know I'm using an alpha version here, but I need the gzip encoding fix which isn't yet apparently in 3.0 release.

I reverted to 3.0 to get around the 3.17a leftover java.exe process issue, but realized that the gzip encoded site was broken again, concluding that the fix isn't yet in the release.

3.18a is unusable, however, as the java.exe process just takes 100% CPU and hangs on my XPSP2 box, both in Workbench and in Service mode.

Hello,

i am a new SS user, could anybody show me step by step how to insert data directly into a databse or excel file. I am using C Sharp

thanks in advance
Kaifi

Hello,

With screen scraper tool, can we screen scrape from asp page and copy it to fields on a java client? or SAP client? (any fat client)

I am a newbie here, this will really help me in deciding if this tool is right for me.

Regards

I love this program!

But its a bit unstable, actually very unstable. I've run it on three different machines; one of them a completely vanilla installation and it still either bombs out or just hangs after running for a while.

What is the most stable OS and version of this program I can use. I love it so much I want to setup a dedicated machine to run it.

Thanks

Bendecko

We're getting a lot of these in our error.log:

so i have an extractor pattern set up ;ole
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and it gives me
[quote]Madonna - Hung up
Hung Up - Madonna
Ryan Styles - Hung Up (Madonna)
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Hi,

I was wondering if there was a way to transfer my scraping settings that I set up on a PC to use on the Macintosh, or if I have to re-create it from scratch.

Thanks,

Bhavesh

Greetings -

I'm running a Screen Scraper service on a Windows machine and occasionally, I stop the service programmatically. I recently upgraded to SS 3.0.17a and now when I stop the service, a java.exe process is left over, and doesn't release port 9001, which makes restarting the service impossible - the left-over process even resists TerminateProcess due to the windows security bounaries, which is what is making me post.

Is this a known issue, and if so is there a workaround?

thanks,
-r