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Found Deals and Discounts / Aba search
« on: May 08, 2021, 04:09 AM »
Just a heads up.

Aba search & replace is on BDJ today.

It's one of my favorite tools, a must have.

https://www.bitsdujo...search-and-replace-2

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Mini-Reviews by Members / RTILA visual web scraper and automation
« on: January 11, 2021, 09:01 AM »
Basic Info

App NameRTILA
App URLhttp://v4.rtila.net/
Github repository installerhttps://github.com/IKAJIAN/rtila-releases/releases
Helphttps://scraper.es/rtila-help/
App Version ReviewedVersion 4
Test System SpecsWindows version
Supported OSesWindows, Mac, Linux
Support Methodsemail, facebook community
Upgrade PolicyCurrently lifetime updates and upgrades are free
Trial Version Available?Yes, they have a trial. Not sure about the exact limitations.
Pricing Scheme74$ lifetime
Screencast Video URLhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH6ov8LnB8-4ZF0yraxjw8Q/videos

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Intro:

This software is a full featured web scraper. It resembles me to webharvy, or other popular point and click web scrapers.

It's young software, less than one year old.

Who is this app designed for:

Probably everybody can get use of this. On my personal uses, I scrape ecommerces, news, forums, or other pages of interest.

My purpose of scraping an e-commerce is to do a better purchase, I prefer to grab all and filter later to get better information for my shopping.


The Good

I have been using scrapers for long, sometimes I coded myself with python.

I own many tools, like ubot, winautomation, and many others. Long time I don't use them.

RTILA uses a real chrome sandbox and emulates human actions.

Second, the author is quite responsive, and he is very fast and constant in development.

The software has MANY options, and I love the fact of being written using modern technologies.

Not only scrapes text, but it can also download images, videos, files (pdf, docs..) or other type of content.

It uses CSS selectors, not xpath.

Allows filters, regular expressions, and javascript manipulation.

It has all the basic features of a scraper, and some advanced ones, like:

- ftp and mailer (store results)
- scheduler
- proxies
- ability to load chrome extensions
- captcha solving
- webhooks
- Google Sheets integration

There are many actions and events, it uses some pseudocode to execute automation, similar to ubot (visual blocks).

The needs improvement section

The user interface should be improved. This is beautiful software with a poor cover.

Other than that, very solid software. Probably I look at it with good eyes because I just love it.

There are very minor bugs from time to time but they are solved quite fast.

Probably version 4 is the most stable and advanced, having 24 minor releases in 3 months, and some features were not trivial to implement.

I'm helping the author with the documentation, and probably that should be improved.

I do that in my free time, just on my blog.

Why I think you should use this product

It has many use cases, I can be getting Minecraft skins for my kids, scraping furniture deals for my wife, or scraping seed plants or trees to plant in winter.

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Really random uses to get information easily.

On my job, usually I do scraping tasks for clients, and they build really creative stuff from that, merging different sources of information to create valuable information.

It can be used to monitor sites too, or create simple (or complex) automations.

Internet sites can be really tricky, this tool cuts down the development time, but it still needs some user knowledge.

How does it compare to similar apps

I don't know real alternative to this. My favourite tool was WinAutomation, that has some desktop capabilities too.

RTILA is oriented to browser tasks.

Probably as I mentioned before, a similar tool is webharvy, but RTILA uses a browser extension to work.

Conclusions

Probably this is my best discovery of 2020.

I didn't have many expectations when I saw this software (sorry to the developer, if he reads this).

The screenshots were not sexy at all, and my expectations were not high, but after testing it a couple of hours I found every piece familiar and easy to use.

It's true, I had to ask some questions because I wanted to know all the details. The support was excellent, so patient to answer me all.

Links to other reviews of this application

There are very few reviews:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24421092

Here it is the Facebook group, with 450 members:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/rtila/

I consider myself privileged to be in touch with the author of this software, and he implemented some of my suggestions.

This is my first review, sorry for my typos.

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Found Deals and Discounts / RTILA visual web scraper
« on: January 09, 2021, 03:03 AM »
Hello, I just want to present you this software.

Its a fantastic web scraper, with automation capabilities, coded in javascript. The software is quite solid, and improves every week.

Demo version is on github:

https://github.com/I...la-releases/releases

I suggest you to start with 4.1.0 version.

https://github.com/I.../releases/tag/v4.1.0

I know people here love to share those small gems, here you have one.

The sales page is quite simple.

http://v4.rtila.net/

Deal: $74 - lifetime - x3 license keys (1 Windows & 1 Mac & 1 Linux)

I'm not the author, but I loved this software too much that started doing some documentation.

The author knows about this forum, probably he will register too.





Documentation:
RTILA Help: https://scraper.es/rtila-help/
RTILA Automation: https://scraper.es/rtila-automation/
RTILA Advanced: https://scraper.es/r...advanced-scraping-i/
Google Sheets with RTILA: https://scraper.es/u...e-sheets-with-rtila/
Video Tutorials: https://www.youtube....-4ZF0yraxjw8Q/videos

I hope you enjoy this one.

Feel free to ask, I'm using RTILA since the begining and I love to chat about this or general scraping techniques.

NOTE: the software is not digitally signed, you will get an alert on install.

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Hello. I was trying to acomplish the following idea with autohotkey but I'm stuck on the remote aproach.

I'm a teacher and some of my students have strong atention issues (special needs, autism...).

Sometimes I have to get atention and my idea is to block the mouse and mute their computer on the ones that they are not listening me.

This helps me to stop any music/audio on their headphones and block their primary input, this should be enough.

I get some code from Skrommel, but I'm still thinking how to send the shortcut to their computer. No idea about the best way.

This is the starting code:

#m::                    ;win + m hotkey
if (x != 1)
{
    BlockInput, MouseMove
    x := 1
    Hotkey, LButton, DoNothing
    Hotkey, RButton, DoNothing
    Hotkey, XButton1, DoNothing
    Hotkey, XButton2, DoNothing
    SoundSet, +1, , Mute
    return
}
if (x = 1)
{
 SoundSet, +1, , mute
    reload
}


DoNothing:
return


Any feedback is appreciated.

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General Software Discussion / Mydraw on BDJ
« on: April 01, 2018, 09:30 AM »
Hello guys, today MyDraw is on bitsdujour. Any user here to share some feedback?

I bought edraw some days ago, but I'm curious about MyDraw.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: clipboard monitor "rpclip"
« on: November 24, 2013, 03:08 AM »
NANY 2014 Entry Information

Application NameRpclip
Version1.5
Supported OSesChecked on XP and 7
Web pageNone
Download linkhttp://www.arrakis.e...ar/pb/rpclipen15.zip
System RequirementsReally few, no dependencies (just win api)
AuthorRoberto Porcar | LinkedIn

A very lightweight clipboard monitor that will capture the text you copied to your clipboard.

No need to install anything. It will create a text file after the first time execution to keep the config.

No junk files or registry entries are left behind on your computer.

I tryed to polish it and I'm using it every day.

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It can handle some basic text manipulation and save the captured text to a file.


The "project" thread:

https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=34138

Download link:

http://www.arrakis.e...ar/pb/rpclipen15.zip


Some features:

F2   - write date time
F12 - hide toolbar

right click on the toobar area to show extra functions like:

  • insert from top/bottom
  • adjust text
  • order text
  • remove blank lines
  • remove dupes
  • some caps functions
  • open/save clips to disk

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Finished Programs / Another small clipboard monitor
« on: February 24, 2013, 05:59 PM »
Ok, nothing really new  :-[

I found some issues in another clipboard monitors and I coded mine. Really simple and lightweight.

File size is less than 80kb on disk, a single exe... low memory consumption too  :)

rpclip.jpg

Download rar file [32kb]
Thanks for reading.

NOTES:

* this app will capture the clipboard text each time that you copy some text to the windows clipboard and write it down in the application as you can see at the screenshot
* just to clear, the first button enable/disable the clipboard monitoring, second copies all the text to clipboard, and third delete the captured text.
* this software does not write anything to disk, your clips will not be saved.
* you can copy some selected text inside the app and it will not be duplicated again. Example: select 1982 and press Ctrl+C. Paste it elsewhere.
* with another clipboards tools, you can get duplicates while copying from certain controls (for example editplus monitor clipboard has this issue).
* this clipboard tool is lightweight, I tryed to use the windows api and no .net or extra dlls are required. Its using 500kb of memory while running on my windows xp, maybe windows 7 or 8 gives some extra space
* I verified this app in virus total. The executable file is not packed, feel free to ask me if you get some false positive. Maybe you will be alerted by some heuristics antivirus because this soft will be monitoring your clipboard

Feel free to send me bugs... I only tested this one by myself  :-\

* add: the app will remember the last position and size
* add: the app will start minimized if you close it from the taskbar or you shut down your computer while the app is minimized

19/03/2013
* add: pinned version allow to have clipboard monitor on top

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Found Deals and Discounts / thebrain
« on: November 20, 2012, 11:44 AM »
they not do many discounts...

http://www.thebrain....m/store/cyber-monday

15% until day 26 november

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Found Deals and Discounts / Image for windows bundle 40% discount
« on: January 17, 2012, 11:12 AM »
http://www.terabyteu...imited.com/index.htm

looks like quite happy customers with this one.

From website:

SPECIAL BUNDLE PRICING

Purchase BootIt BM and Image for Windows (includes Image for DOS/Linux and OSD Tool Suite Pro) together and receive over 40% off the normal price.
All five products for only $49.98!

from Bits you still can get a 15%: http://www.bitsdujou...e/image-for-windows/

but check the first link for the 40% bundle!

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Found Deals and Discounts / One click backup 50%
« on: January 17, 2012, 10:10 AM »
This is one of my favourites.

I found the deal today, enjoy the 50% discount.

http://acritum.com/ocb

recomended (i bought it at full price and is worth the money)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Bits - Ultra Recall
« on: January 13, 2012, 06:18 AM »
Soon, 61% discount, at www.bitsdujour.com

Enjoy! :)

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