What's the optimum setting for the Alive Checking addon? I get many dead sites yet when i check the same dead sites in the built in browser the site is infact quite alive!
I would also like to scrape lists for various forums like :
ApeBoard
DrbGuestbook
eagBook
GaGuestbook
Using my own keywords whats the best footprints to use for these forum scrapes?
Thanks
I wouldn't use more then 20 or 30 unless you have a smokin connection. Due to the way addons seem to work the connections you can max out are lower the say fast poster or link checker. You will notice the developer lets you max connections for other operations out at 500 and the Alive check at 100. Thats your clue.
If you wanted to do it in ratio then 100 fast poster connections would equal out to about 20 alive checker connections. It doesn't work quite like that, but that should give you a rough idea of what to work with.
If you go to fast you will get errors, which in that case its pass or fail. So if it doesn't load then you get "dead".
SweetFunny, I have been waiting a long time (over 1 week) for a license transfer. Please PM me so that we can resolve it.
You "likely" didn't submit the right license transfer info and SF is having a hard time tracking down your license or simply can't find it. This is all done maually so its very important to make absolutely sure that you put in the same info you paid with.
If you don't know what you paid with then you can open up your paypal and find the transaction. It will have your transaction ID, the email you used to pay and the name it went under.
At this point you should resubmit your license with the correct info. I have never had it take more then 15 hours and I have 6 functional scrapebox licenses that I have moved around a good deal in the past year.
Also as noted many times here, SF does not reply to PMs due to several constraints. You would need to contact support directly via the support form.
http://www.scrapebox.com/contact-us
Eagerly waiting on the next update. To bad the last version isnt all that so i had to roll back.
I didn't see any issues on any of my instances of scrapebox. What isn't "all that"? I am actually more productive after the latest update.
I have a problem:
When I use slow poster sometimes a security box comes up for a security certificate and the poster does not continue until I manually say yes to it. Is there anyway to bypass this?
Scrapebox slow poster uses the Internet Explorer rendering engine and is subject to its limitations. If you open up Internet Explorer and go into your options you can disable option to prompt you for security certificates and other annoyances. Scrapebox only displays what IE makes it. Turn it off in IE and it won't show in SB.
Hi all,
Hope everyone is doing fine.
I've been using SB for about a month now and never had any problem with it. But since the last couple of days, this bad boy is behavin' weird
It shows "error 404" all the time with almost all SB modules whether it be "link checker", "link extractor" or "Outbound link checker"...
Other modules such as Comment poster, harvester, PR checker are working just fine.
I don't know if there is a problem with my PC, internet connection or what?
I ain't a geek that is why I'm posting it here to seek help from those who know much about all this
Note: the problem exists even when I use:
Public proxies
Private proxies
No proxies...
I tried to sort this out by adjusting timeout and max. connection settings but to no avail
Any clues???
Bk...
Well there are a lot of things that can cause a 404. Of course the most prominent is if the page simply isn't there. However if the request never leaves your machine or if can't find the proxy you are trying to use it will also return a 404.
If you are getting excessive 404s with no proxies then its likely that scrapebox is being blocked by something. Firewall, Anti Virus, etc.. Try disabling all of these for testing. Also cover your basics - restart your pc, that solves more then you would believe.
My scrapebox stops now while fast posting.
It just stops, looks like working.cpu memory free : 1824 changing sometimes.
I cant abort fast poster!
Firewall shows me scrapebox is doing nothing now.
Any idea?
"application is current busy.
pls wait or abort current operation."
ok wait..but its 2 hrs now.and sb is doing no connection, no cpu usage.
It could be a few things. Try working thru my tutorial on this:
There are many reasons why scrapebox can freeze or hang.
Before figuring out what is causing Scrapebox to freeze, you need to identify what type of freeze is happening.
Black Window - If your Scrapebox window has gone completely black, then generally it means that it froze up because of a lack of resources. You ran out of available processor power or you ran out of Ram.
You can also see a black window if you are using RDP to connect to a remote server such as a VPS or Dedicated server. This happens because your pc and the server just aren't exchanging data fast enough. Generally if you leave this alone it will fix its self, or you can log out of your RDP session and log back in. If you are constantly getting black windows using RDP, then its either your pc or the server just doesn't have enough resources, or the internet connection is too slow or too busy.
If your constantly getting black windows on your local machine then you probably need a better processor or more Ram or you need to not run so many things on the pc at once.
Sockets/Ports waiting - As you run scrapebox, windows opens up connections and closes them. The is true for almost every part of scrapebox, its how windows works. If you have too many connections going and windows doesn't correctly close down the open connections they can stay open until the TCP timer shuts them down. If this happens, windows will open all of the available ports that it can allocate. Meaning all ports are open, not being used and you can't do anything.
When this happens the ScrapeBox window can be moved around and everything appears normal, but the numbers of posting/scraping etc... don't go up, they just stay at what they are. This behavior is especially true with free proxies and more prevelant in machines running versions of windows prior to Vista Service Pack 2, including XP. Although Vista and 7 are still susceptible to this.
The fix here is to turn your connections down and your timeouts up, or if it never kicks in, then restart your pc.
White Ghost Window/Not Responding - There is a white ghost window over top of the scrapebox window and it says (Not Responding) at the top. This generally means that scrapebox is just busy and is not currently able to display the window. Most of the time if you leave it alone and give it some time, it will come back and everything will be fine.
If leaving it alone isn't fixing the problem then you can check out the following reasons that its freezing. Here are the most common ones:
- Malformed data
- Antivirus / Firewall Software
- TCP stack
- Resources
Malformed data
This includes anyfiles you load into scrapebox. If you have malformed urls, such as:
http:/ww.go/bad-data
or if you have poorly spun text.
{anchor1||anchor2|{
This could be in any of the fields.
Checking for Malformed data
Back to basics - Create a new names file, new emails file, new comments file, and new websites file. Put only one line of text in each file. Do not use any spun text. If you are able to comment to the same list that was freezing before then its likely it was somewhere in your names/emails/websites/comments files. If scrapebox still hangs then its likely that the issue is in the blog list you are trying to comment to and you need to check for bad urls.
URLs- Uncheck the "Randomize comment poster blogs list" under settings. Then post with scrapebox. When it freezes note the position where it froze. Like list status 500/4563. Then also note your connections settings, for instance if you had 50 connections going at once.
Then import your list into the blog commenter section and hit the E. Then look for line 500 or wherever the list stopped at. Then look at 50 ulrs before and after that line (or whatever your connections were set to). If you find any malformed urls fix or delete them.
Malformed urls can be anything that is not formatted right. Like: http:/ww.go/bad-data
Spin Syntax - Load your files in the commenter section. Hit test comments. Hit the spin again button 20-30 times rapidly. If scrapebox locks up you likely have bad spin syntax coding. Note that just because it doesn't lock up in this step doesn't mean that your spin syntax isn't the cause of scrapebox freezing and you should manually double check it.
AntiVirus / Firewall Software
Antivirus and Firewall software can shut down scrapeboxes access to the internet and cause all sorts of issues. The simple solution here is temporarily disable all Antivirus and Firewall software including windows firewall and see if solves your problem.
TCP Stack
Half-open connections limit can cause an issue. Generally this is only true if you are running Windows Vista SP1 or older, including XP. The default half-open connections limit was removed by Microsoft in Windows Vista SP2 and newer, including Windows 7. If it?s a half-open connections problem, Windows Event Viewer will show an event saying "TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts". If this is the case you just ran out of available connections. The quickest fix is to restart your pc. If you keep having this issue, then try running less simultaneous instances of scrapebox or turning your connections down and your timeouts up. Upgrading to Vista SP 2 or newer will ultimately fix this problem.
Resources
Lack of resources can also cause this. Not a fast enough processor, not enough RAM. Quick fixes here are to not run as many instances of scrapebox at once, not run as many other things in the background while you are running scrapebox. Turn your connections down, and your timeouts up. Don't work with as large of a list. Most of what scrapebox does is stored in memory(RAM) and the larger the list you work with the more space this is going to take. If the memory fills up, things can go bad.
You can of course always upgrade your processor/RAM.
Back to Basics
In general its important to remember the basics, especially when none of the above works.
