>>>>>>I feel bad about LWS from Ankur because I recommended it at first.
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>Kurt DONT!!!
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>Ankurs LW showed what is possible if you are lucky enough to
>find decent coders (especially if you compare this to
>weblinkrobot with their style of net/vb coding which works
>to some degree and is updated but lacks some kind of
>"elegance" and success rate is about 50%)
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>@russ - thanks for the feedback on LFE

I'm going to do some of this stuff with ubots.

I can do it now, but am trying to figure out how to "error proof" the bots so that if one site fails the bot will skip it and move on. And sites will constantly fail, as they are always changing. I actually made a forum post about this very issue on the ubot forum.

The other problem with BOTH weblinkrobot and liknkwheel software is that they use 3rd party captcha solutions...And these have been really undependable. They are basically services where you send the captcha images and someone, somewhere fills in the captchas for you.

They tend to work OK for a little while, then you get someone that doesn't read english letters very well, then the captchas fail, causing the entire script to fail.

I'll probably make some bots where you need to fill in captchas yourself, as it is really the only dependable way, as boring as it is.

I won't have any fancy "linking", and just use the bots to create accounts, etc.

I need to figure out how to combine Scrapebox results with ubots and we'll be in really good shape.