TerribleBones
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- Feb 2, 2015
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I havent used scrapebox for a few months now, will want to try it out when I do though. Looks powerful.
New ScrapeBox Public Beta: What do you guys think?
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Articlestopper
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- Feb 2, 2015
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I dont think scrapebox is actually a good idea
blackhatpc
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Wow looks amazing can you add the option to change resolution of SB as my 14'' laptop screen faces some problem due to its resolution
It's scraping speed and the ability to handle larger domain files are major improvements. There is one change which upsets me dearly though; the fact that you can't directly copy all URLs to the clipboard from the harvester. I'm confident this will be updated, but for this reason I'm still using the old SB for everything except scraping.
Also, I'm pretty amazed how some people say they haven't used Scrapebox for months. How can you do SEO without using it daily (or at least several times a week)? It really baffles me.
Also, I'm pretty amazed how some people say they haven't used Scrapebox for months. How can you do SEO without using it daily (or at least several times a week)? It really baffles me.
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No linux version and it does not work on WINE. You need a full install of windows. As noted, you can use a virutal box and install windows on it.
Its on a low end dedicated server, but it doesn't use all that much bandwidth really, google is highly optimized in general and SB 2 is highly optimized for google. So the proxies are the potential bottle neck and if you solve that you solve the issue.
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But its still beta, I don't think they are even selling it yet, but they are supposed to launch in the next few days. Neil is a great guy, just him them up and tell them loopline said that he should work harder so he can sell it sooner. LOL
Thank you for your highly detailed and helpful post that gave tremendous detail on what is lacking so that it can be improved. Im sure those changes will be implemented immediately.
Thank you as well for your highly detailed and useful post explaining why it is not a good idea. Im sure many will benefit from this.
You mean like once harvesting is done the grid that lists all the urls harvested, under the "urls harvested" section? You can right click and copy the urls to clipboard. I mean you have to highlight the ones you want using the shift key and clicking at the topmost url and bottom most url, but then you can copy to clipboard. Im confused, what are you saying?
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NickyOktavian
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Never use scrapebox because my bussines in Twitter Marketing, but im interesting to test the new beta version of this software.Tq
Capo Dei Capi
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Does the premium article scraper and translator work with v2.0 yet? I'm considering getting scrapebox again now due to 64 bit support and all the free+premium plugins. I had bought it about 4 years ago but never really used it for anything.
This is probably one of my favorite features that SB has
http://www.scrapebox.com/vanity-name-checker
This is probably one of my favorite features that SB has
http://www.scrapebox.com/vanity-name-checker
While the Beta version seems OK, I have a few gripes:
1. it does not handle SSL proxies well. After 6 emails to Scrapebox support, I gave up hope of them being able to fix the problem. The problem is not really with SB though; the problem is with the judges not properly recognizing the certificates from the proxies.
2. When you updates the plugins, SB updates and installs all the plugins - including the ones you do not want and have deliberately uninstalled like the chess player, audio player, and the useless port scanner.
3. There is no option to copy proxies from the clipboard into the proxy manager.
Then I just ran into another problem. My OS crashed (win.8.1). I copied all the data to an external drive, including the programs. Reformated, reinstalled everything, and SB required me to reauthorize. PITA!
1. it does not handle SSL proxies well. After 6 emails to Scrapebox support, I gave up hope of them being able to fix the problem. The problem is not really with SB though; the problem is with the judges not properly recognizing the certificates from the proxies.
2. When you updates the plugins, SB updates and installs all the plugins - including the ones you do not want and have deliberately uninstalled like the chess player, audio player, and the useless port scanner.
3. There is no option to copy proxies from the clipboard into the proxy manager.
Then I just ran into another problem. My OS crashed (win.8.1). I copied all the data to an external drive, including the programs. Reformated, reinstalled everything, and SB required me to reauthorize. PITA!
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JournoNick
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Yeah it's ok. I really just use scrapebox for scraping, so the search engine selections is what sticks out for myself. The rest is meh, also that proxy harvester can piss right off, slow as all hell. If that's going to be any good, then it's going to need to be as fast as Gscraper.
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Yes the Article Scraper plugin is running under the 32 and 64 bit version in V2, and so is the Vanity Name Checker addon.
That's because nobody could work out what you are talking about, you emailed that the judges have a problem with SSL when ScrapeBox doesnt even make SSL connections to the judges. Then you supplied a Google https search URL to show the problem but this has nothing to do with the judges. We were hoping at least one other person would report the same problem, but nobody has.
You mean addons, you can select any addon and click "Install Addon" which will install or update any specific addon.
So far nobody has requested it.
Yep any time i reformat Windows i have to re-license about 45 pieces of software including Windows itself too. Not sure what this has got to do with anything.
I didnt know GScraper even had a proxy tester, last i saw you had to buy proxies off them at $600 year locked to GScraper that you couldn't use in any other software. ScrapeBox tests proxies server side also and gives them for free. Ok i will check this out and do some speed tests.
Being somewhat snippy here. I sent you the log files, the error files, and the proxies used. The log files showed the proxy judges to be the problem. I would assume, though that makes an ass out of you and me, that you would include logging and error files so that you could track down problems when reported. At least that is why I add error logging to programs.
Probably no one has reported the problem because they do not scrape for, or use SSL specific proxies. The reason I do is that I found few use them and so they last longer when scraping.
No. I mean that when SB boots and notifies that there are add ons that need updating and you open the add on manager and click "Update all add ons" It updates all add ons and installs the ones that you do not have installed when the "Also install not installed addons" box is unchecked. V1 SB only updates the add ons that you have installed.
Then please add it. If you want a reason. Some of us have our own proxy scrapers that print to a text box that we can cut and paste from. It is frequently faster to C&P than it is to save to a file; sometimes there is a reason for not writing those proxies to a file as well.
I keep all the SB and Gscraper files in the document folder. This includes the license files. I also write the registry file out, and restore it to the new OS, I also save the program files and locations. Then after testing for corrupt files, I dump all the files back where they came from on the old system to the new system and restore the registry. Using this method, I generally do not have to reregister or reinstall software. This most likely means that you are writing a hidden file. If I would have known that, I would have hunted the bugger down and recovered it as well. There is a significant time savings in restoring a fubarred computer this way. If you really want to know why the OS crashed it was because of an uninstallation of VMWare via Revo uninstaller.
GScraper has the option of using your own proxies. Once you load your proxies and set the number of threads up to 1500, you then click "Remove Invalid Proxies." The proxies are tested and the bad ones dumped. What GScraper does not do is to test for anonymity. But if you are only scraping, who cares about anonymity. If you are posting, then it is a different story.
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I'm just going by memory here, but the logfile had random errors like 407 Proxy Authentication Required indicating it was a private proxy, 403 Forbidden, Connection timed out, 500 Socket refused, 404 not found, 307 temporary redirect, 503 service unavailable and so on. No different then the 100% normal errors produced when anyone scans a bunch of free proxies with any tool.
In v2.0.0.28 now fixed you can update an individual addon, you can update only installed addons and you can update and download all addons.
In v2.0.0.28 now added there's Load from ClipBoard, Append from ClipBoard and Save to Clipboard added.
No it's not writing a hidden file, your license is associated with the Windows install. If you reformat Windows or change computers you need to reset your license.
Ok but doesnt GScraper post comments? So GScraper doesnt even have a simple proxy tester that checks for anonymous proxies this means it's leaking your IP to everyone... not good. I don't know how journonick can even compare both proxy testers, they are light years apart.
Goldenliferesidences
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- Nov 28, 2010
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This is the service
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But its still beta, I don't think they are even selling it yet, but they are supposed to launch in the next few days. Neil is a great guy, just him them up and tell them loopline said that he should work harder so he can sell it sooner. LOL
Proxies are always the most crucial thing if these are the ones the guys use with Scrapebox let me bin my private proxies and give them a go If there are any review packs going i would really like to use them when beta testing version 2 then the service would be complete and integrated at the begining before realising only pp stretched the capabilities i spent so much time trying to find the fuel to run this engine If the fuel comes from the developer it has got to be hi octane you would think Heres hoping !!
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But its still beta, I don't think they are even selling it yet, but they are supposed to launch in the next few days. Neil is a great guy, just him them up and tell them loopline said that he should work harder so he can sell it sooner. LOL
Proxies are always the most crucial thing if these are the ones the guys use with Scrapebox let me bin my private proxies and give them a go If there are any review packs going i would really like to use them when beta testing version 2 then the service would be complete and integrated at the begining before realising only pp stretched the capabilities i spent so much time trying to find the fuel to run this engine If the fuel comes from the developer it has got to be hi octane you would think Heres hoping !!
I haven't used SB for a couple of years now probably.. Looks like I will have to start using it again. 250k urls per minute is huge IMO..
SweetFunny, you should send out a mailing for this. If I haven't seen this thread I wouldn't even know that V2 exists
SweetFunny, you should send out a mailing for this. If I haven't seen this thread I wouldn't even know that V2 exists
I had cut the log file down to the issues that were actually present rather than include the entire file. I did this to save you time. If you are anything like me, you absolutely hate digging through logs looking for errors. I left 500 and 503 errors because they often indicate server configurations errors. As an example of this here is an entry from the proxy manager log
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2/3/2015 3:29:34 AM: HTTP: 500 , SOCKET: Connection refused, Proxy: 107.23.43.44:80, Judge: http://www.sbjudge3.com/ip4.phpYour judge, sbjudge3, refused the connection. This could be overload, though the error logs will generally indicate too many connections, a misconfiguration, or some other unspecified server error.
A 407 error is not always a private proxy. 407 is the same error that you receive when the SSL/TLS certificate is missing or does not match. As an example:
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2/3/2015 3:29:57 AM: HTTP: 407 Proxy Authentication Required, SOCKET: , Proxy: 94.182.162.242:8080, Judge: http://www.sbjudge1.com/ip4.phpThis one was scraped with SB and most likely not a private proxy. However, when I feed SSL proxies into SB and test them with SB the same error is received. The bad part is that I had already tested the proxy with my proxy tester and know that it is not a private proxy. If I turn off the SSL in my proxy tester, I also receive a 407 error because of the inability to to validate the required SSL/TLS certificate. I even sent you the C# code that I use to approve certificates to show that all certificates are accepted. The reason I tested this is because you have added the SSL libraries.
Point being not to cast blame, but to show that there is some problem because 407 is used to indicate validation failed and can be used to show a private proxy, bad credentials, or a failed SSL certificate.
Thank you very much! I am sure that it drove others mad too, but was insignificant enough that it was not reported as a bug.
Thank you. Many missed this feature.
Acceptable. Just irritating to find out at the point of use. Especially when I had to find out that it is different than W7 where I could just reinstall the OS and dump the files back in and move on with the scraping.
Yes, Gscraper can post comments. However there are some serious problems with the poster. You can use the poster to post a comment to a perfectly clean and unspammed site in your control with GScraper. Within days, sometimes hours, you start finding numerous other people spamming the site. The sites I tested this on were my own sites, and unscraped with GScraper and the search engines were blocked in htaccess; the sites were just loaded from a file. Make of it what you will. I will say that anyone that uses the GScraper poster should not expect the sites posted to to remain private because everything is bounced off the servers in China even though the post and tests are conducted from the local computer. When you purchase the proxy service from GScraper, the proxies are pretested for anonymity, but do not expect your posts to remain private. Yes, GScraper will leak your IP if you are posting and using public proxies to do so. How the Gscraper proxy tester works is that the proxy end points are set up and then a test is made against a Google page and a string is looked for. If the string is present, the proxy is considered good, anonymity is never tested.
The only advantage to scraping with GScraper is that it uses a que rather than a stack for the proxies, and you can run more threads. If you set the setting, and a proxy fails, another proxy is pulled from the que and the failed proxy is put back in the que. Also, when the URL is scraped the proxy is replaced in the que. While I have not tested the process in the beta, in V1 if a proxy failed, it was retried some number of user set times, and then dumped. This means you missed many pages of scrapes.
ScrapeBox is a far superior product. You are not passing large amounts of encrypted data back to your servers, even in the beta I have seen no sign of telemetrics. They might be present, but I have never seen the need to even check with wireshark. You validate at boot and that is about it unless there is a reason to use your servers such as proxy checking, and even then I don't think you are doing anything but testing the anonymity. With your new framework (which I am curious which product you are using) you have overcome the socket hanging problem that plagued SB V1. With that framework, from observation, you could probably bump the number of proxy testing threads up over 200 with little problem.
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