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Weird problem with errors

Hello, I hope someone might be able to help with this problem...

I'm experiencing a problem where my session will run perfectly 5 or 6 times in a row, but then for some reason it will begin to produce strange errors, like an extractor pattern only getting the first record of the set instead of 40, and an error like this:

An error occurred while processing the script: Go Browse Pg1
The application script threw an exception: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -2 BSF info: null at line: 0 column: columnNo

Installation of Basic Edition

Does the Basic Edition installation do anything "fancy" with the Windows registry, or environment variables?

vb.net error: 80040154

Hi

I am trying to use the Trial Pro version in vb.net for a demo.
I am using Visual Studio 2005

When I try and use the code

Dim remoteSession As Screenscraper.RemoteScrapingSession
remoteSession = New Screenscraper.RemoteScrapingSession("New Scraping Session", "localhost", 8778)
remoteSession.Scrape()

It tells me there are too many parameters for the RemoteScrapingSession class

So I also tried the code below:

This problem haven't solution?

Hi !

I've one problem without solution for me

This is more on less a sample of the problem. I've one html "index" with the next structure:

Genre1
Film1 Link
Film2 Link
Film3 Link

Genre2
Film4 Link
Film5 Link

Genre3
Film6 Link
Film7 Link
Film8 Link
Film9 Link
Film10 Link
Film11 Link

Genre4
Film12 Link
Film13 Link
Film14 Link
Film15 Link

In each Film page contains:

Title
Autor
Argument
Price

The Application has unexpectedly quit

I am getting this error at app startup on a fresh install (multiple reinstalls)

n/a

undefined variable or class name: dataSet

I am performing tutorial 3. whenever I start script Scrape Search Result
I got this following error message.

Attempt to invoke method: getNumDataRecords() on undefined variable or class name: dataSet : at Line: 1.

Please help me about this error.

Basic vs Professional

Ok, so at work I'm using Professional full time. I'm in screen-scraper heaven. The dev team I'm in loves me for my super abilities with s-s.

But when I go home (uberGeek) to scrape recreationally, I'm stuck with Basic. Having all sorts of fun like automating command line execution and piping it through a web service to emulate the "server" functionality, etc.

Question About UserAgent

When Screen-Scraper sends a request to a page, what does it send as the UserAgent (i.e. "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)").

Some sites will render differently based on the userAgent. Is this configurable in Screen-Scraper?

Thanks!

Adam

document scrapping

I want to extract pdf document from a website and store in database.
To get this pdf document page, I have to specify a search criteria datewise and then I get many pdf files results in paging. I want to store all these pdf files in my database. Is it possible through Screen-Scraper? I hope you will provide us solution as soon as possible.