Check out SIKULI (Picture-driven computing).

yeah, my reasoning behind finding a simple lightweight execution environment is because it gives us a baseline for development. then we can be sure we can share scripts and have everything work the same on any machine.

gonna dust off my vmware skills tomorrow :-)
 


uplinked said:
I'm using Sikuli for all my botting endeavors. No offense to Lord B, but it's way easier and faster for me than uBot.
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Yeah, screenshots are sure easier but you can't really compare VSL in functionality with it. Can you scrape data with it? Can you do complex logic with the HTML? Can you invoke Javascript? Can it create account for you with random account data? All that is done out of the box with UBot Studio.

Like you said, you have to be Jython programmer to get advanced stuff done with it... kinda defeats the purpose for the target audience we have as we target people who want to spend time doing actual stuff rather than learning code. So ultimately it boils down to what fits your situation the best.

SIKULI, iMacros, Automate, AutoIT, WinAutomation or UBot Studio OR writing your own code in PHP or Ruby or Java. All differ in their strong points (and dare I say, target audience) -- you need to see what you are comfortable with.

If you are super proficient in PHP / Java and write your code there, I'd not pitch UBot Studio to you - I'd pitch it to people who don't know how to code and are not interested in spend long time learning programming skills but still want to create advanced bots easily.

And neither do you need all the fancy functionality and virtual machines like you are discussing here. You can run as many bots as you want at the same time and minimize them... And version 4 will change the whole Automation Game.

PS: Did you try out the copy of UBot Studio that I had sent to Jason? If you want, I can send you over some nice bots to actually see UBot Studio in action.

cardine said:
Great news. It gets a little annoying having 25 identical Ubot programs running at the same time on your computer.
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Lord B said:
PS: Did you try out the copy of UBot Studio that I had sent to Jason? If you want, I can send you over some nice bots to actually see UBot Studio in action.
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Yeah, I'm using Jason's copy. I'd really appreciate the test scripts; I had only tried writing my own bots.

Sikuli's working great so far, for our needs, but you're totally correct that anyone who is not a Python/Java/Jython dev need not apply -- If you're not a coder, quit this thread and download uBot before your head explodes -- but there's still a lot of untapped potential, especially if you need to write a bot that uses a remote mysql datasource (like I'm doing now). Does uBot have DB tie-in functionality? Instead of "random accounts", can it generate accounts from a database? I haven't looked hard enough to know, but I'm always trying to find the best software for the job :)
 
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