Thanks, that will be a huge help for sure. But would having an option to minimize the Automator Popup itself be something that would cause it to not work or disrupt something? I don't understand why that hasn't been a default feature by now or implemented a long time ago? People like to do other tasks in their servers while the Automator is running, I keep having to manually move it around all the time since it's constantly in the way of things. A minimize option (if possible) would really solve everything.
Loopline, as far as buying separate versions of just the Link Extractor Addon, I was hoping I could get them for cheaper than $55, since I need to buy them in bulk, about 10 to start with, and then scaling up from there. Just wondering if it's an option in anyway to do that. If it would take way too much work for the scrapebox team to implement being able to sell standalone Addons and i'm the only customer asking for it, then I fully understand and will just bite the bullet and buy the scrapebox licences.
Well Im guessing it would be a pain in the rear end for them to build a licensing setup for just that, and not worth it. But you can ask. Mail
support (at] scrapebox [dot) com
Thats the people to ask.
I just tried that, it's a nifty trick I didn't know about, however, it minimizes everything, EXCEPT for the automator window
If you click the invisible button in the bottom right hand corner of your windows desktop, to the right of the clock. For met that shows the desktop, it hides even the automator windows. This is on servers version 2008 and 2012 anyway.
As for the automator, when it gets its next command, it does pop back to the top, and then you have to put the window focus on the automator or something else and then click away or click the show desktop button again.
It can indeed be a bit tedious to do stuff. I have so many scripts and instances of automator on my machines that something seems to always be popping to the top.
I actually have all my automator instances setup wtih a process monitor in python. So I launch the python script and it will launch the automator job and restart it if scrapebox crashes. And I actually auto kill all instances every X hours as well, just in case it is locked up, so its truely hands free. I run in small batches so it works fine, sometimes I lose a little but no big deal.
I said that to say this - when I need to do work on the server, I will often just click abort on all instances of automator and shut down any extra windows that are running, like posting, link checking etc.. I do leave the actual instance of Scrapbox running.
Then when Im doing working I just close all the instances of Scrapebox down. Then the python script sees that it was all closed and it restarts them all automatically. Its handy and easy. But for sure took some work to setup.
Its possible, but it may not keep the order correctly. I will just have to grab extra syntax and clean it later.
Yes thats what I was going to suggest. You could then have an external tool like Winston mentions that does a find replace and then also compares against urls and outputs it in a nice csv etc...