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ocwil
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by ocwil » Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:02 pm
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TAG POS=1 TYPE=TEXTAREA FORM=ACTION:https://twitter.com/status/update ATTR=ID:status CONTENT={{!EXTRACT}}
WAIT SECONDS=5
'TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=NAME:NoFormName ATTR=ID:update-submit
IMAGECLICK POS=1 IMAGE=twitterupdate1.bmp CONFIDENCE=90
instead try this
first LOGIN to twitter and go to the page(this is possible with a macro)
then do this code:
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URL GOTO=https://twitter.com/status/update
TAG POS=1 TYPE=TEXTAREA ATTR=ID:status CONTENT={{!EXTRACT}}
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ID:status_update_form ATTR=ID:update-submit
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Tony Dumpling
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by Tony Dumpling » Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:35 pm
There is a chance I did it wrong. Here is my new code, and I get a page not found.
in Firefox I get this /status/update This method requires a POST.
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URL GOTO=https://twitter.com
WAIT SECONDS=3
URL GOTO=https://twitter.com/status/update
TAG POS=1 TYPE=TEXTAREA ATTR=ID:status CONTENT={{!EXTRACT}}
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ID:status_update_form ATTR=ID:update-submit
Did I misunderstand what you wanted me to do? You said, "go to the page(this is possible with a macro)" which page are you referring to?
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ocwil
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by ocwil » Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:59 pm
did you login?
because when you login you get to the page where de input is
and the update button
at that page you do the
tag content={{VAR}}
tag submit
thats what i ment
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Tony Dumpling
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by Tony Dumpling » Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:12 pm
Ok, that's what I thought you meant. I logged in and tried to get to
https://twitter.com/status/update but I get a 404 page not found error in IE and just this line in FF
/status/update This method requires a POST.
Did you get something different when you tested using your code?
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ocwil
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by ocwil » Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:35 pm
hmm
i now have been possible to recreate your error
and it's a mistery to me to
as it seem when i push the button manualy nit goes to
"%/status/update"
and when i use it in a loop
it just skips it
and works just once in a while
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ocwil
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by ocwil » Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:39 pm
this is not a problem with imacros i think since it submits but
some how twitter send back an error
might be bot protection
you could make a smaller loop
that goes to the page for each update message but i dont know if that would work
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Tony Dumpling
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by Tony Dumpling » Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:05 pm
What do you mean make it smaller and have it go back to the page? Maybe Hannes will have an idea as well.
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ocwil
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by ocwil » Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:21 pm
yhe wait for his reply
i dont know what more to do
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Hannes, Tech Support
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by Hannes, Tech Support » Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:27 am
Strange. Using a test account, the following works for me. Button gets marked by blue frame, and the "b" is posted.
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TAG POS=1 TYPE=TEXTAREA FORM=ACTION:http://twitter.com/status/update ATTR=ID:status CONTENT=b
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ID:status_update_form ATTR=ID:update-submit
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Tony Dumpling
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by Tony Dumpling » Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:45 pm
Hey Hannes, a single post usually isn't a problem, it's when I try to loop it. I can't get it to work more than one time. I've attached my full script with datasources in an earlier post if you want to try that. That is where I had problems as did ocwill.
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Tony Dumpling
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by Tony Dumpling » Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:52 pm
By the way, I did try your code in my script and it didn't post anything, it just skipped over it. Could my {{!EXTRACT}} cause a problem?
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Tony Dumpling
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by Tony Dumpling » Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:21 pm
Finally got it figured out...looks like it had to do with some weird way Twitter handles mouse clicks. Thanks for the help everyone!
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ocwil
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by ocwil » Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:10 am
can you post your solution
i might be able to learn something from it
and others to
gr ocwil