Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers, 2nd Edition

Further Exploration

While the techniques described here allow you to extract information from websites that are otherwise untouchable, these techniques also suffer from a few disadvantages. Here are a few things I’ve learned that may save you some time and grief as you develop your own iMacros solutions:

• Designate Firefox, or your browser of choice for the iMacros environment, as the default browser on your computer and don’t use this browser for anything else. Doing so ensures that iMacros is launched in the correct browser and that the browser is not simultaneously used for another purpose.

• Understand that multiple iMacros scripts cannot execute simultaneously on the same desktop account. If you schedule multiple iMacros sessions on a single computer, ...