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jjohnbubbles
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Saint Lucia
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Posted - 25 Jan 2014 :  21:49:38  Show Profile  Edit Topic  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Topic
I have a site I am trying to write a script for. The problem is, when I run a script with more than 10 or so movies, the website locks me out for about half an hour for excessive use.

When I manually click around the site as fast as I can I never get locked out. I'm assuming based on the speed XMM is operating, it knows a bot is mining data and is stopping me.

Is it possible to insert pauses into XMM to slow it down a bit so this site doesn't lock me out?

Thanks!

JDommi
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Germany
4638 Posts
Posted - 25 Jan 2014 :  22:11:23  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
A pause isn't available in MagicScript.
But you can use something like that:

	#PUT#=10000#98#
	#PUT#=0#99#
:TIMER
	#COMPUTEVAR#=#99#+1
	#IF# #99#<>#98#
		#GOTO#=TIMER
	#ENDIF#
In order to achieve what is possible, you have to try the impossible over and over again.
Hermann Hesse
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jjohnbubbles
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Saint Lucia
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Posted - 25 Jan 2014 :  23:18:14  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
That's almost exactly what I did, even with the same variable numbers!

I wasn't aware of the computervar option but I did the same thing with the cursor :

#PUT#=10000#99#
#PUT#=0#98#
#RESETCURSOR#
#REPEAT#
#COMPUTECURSOR#=+1
#PUTCURSOR#=#98#
#WHILE# #98#<>#99#

This gives me about a 9 second pause.

Thanks for the smarter approach. Ill remember var next time.
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JDommi
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Germany
4638 Posts
Posted - 26 Jan 2014 :  10:09:46  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
#REPEAT# - #WHILE# is the smarter solution as you don't need any #GOTO#-label. But the #PUTCURSOR# could theoretically produce an error in a worst case scenario.
One thing that could make problems, too: every loop takes a different time on each machine depending on the processor and OS. Therefor this loop should have an optional value ranging from 5000 to 15000.

#LOADOPTIONS#
    #SETOPTION#=#97#1[Delay time]0=slow processor|1=normal processor|2=fast processor
#ENDLOADOPTIONS#

//... somewhere in the last executed block or whereever you want

    #IF# #97#==#0#
        #PUT#=5000#98#
    #ENDIF#
    #IF# #97#==#1#
	#PUT#=10000#98#
    #ENDIF#
    #IF# #97#==#2#
	#PUT#=15000#98#
    #ENDIF#

    #PUT#=0#99#
    #REPEAT#
	#COMPUTEVAR#=#99#+1
    #WHILE# #98#<>#99#
In order to achieve what is possible, you have to try the impossible over and over again.
Hermann Hesse
Edited by - JDommi on 26 Jan 2014 10:14:22
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