Botsoftware.org’s Ubot Review
Well, I figured I’d do something productive and review a product, Ubot.
Ubot is touted as the answer to every web developer’s dream who has ever needed a bot , scraper or any sort of automation tool for websites.
I looked at ubot a month ago, and was pretty impressed with the potential of having the ability to build easy scrapers, as I have no clue on PHP or any other programing languages (outside of HTML).
So, I ponied up the $149 (as was the price when I bought it) and bought ubot. I was definately impressed the first day I had the program, I was able to create a real simple bot that worked and pulled the indexing rate of a few of my project sites.
After day #1 , that’s when it started to go down hill…..quickly. I started getting BSOD errors, as well as different .net errors. After about a week, I could no longer log into the program as it required a update, which I was unable to complete due to the errors. I finally realized that I had to uninstall the program in order to download & reinstall the most recent version. Unfortunately, this has happened the past 4-5 times I’ve run the program, it has been so aggrivating I have stopped using it.
The potential for Ubot is huge , it’s relatively easy to use, and for someone who doesn’t know squat about programing, I was able to come up with a tool I needed in a hour or two. However, at the current time, the program is absolutely worthless. HOPEFULLY in the future, there will be some upgrades, or the developer will get his act together and make something usable , as right now it’s a POS.
Yep, I’m not even going to throw in an affiliate link for the product, unless they turn it around.
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Hey Brandon — we have released a lot of updates for the software and we work overtime to fix the bugs as they arise. I would request you to take UBot for a trial again — if you have any problems, please email ubotdev [at] gmail.com and we will fix it!
Yes, we have had some growing pains and I hope you appreciate the complexity of the software. However, we try to fix bugs as soon as they arise.
If you need any technical help, we have our support forums and email ( ubotdev@gmail.com ) — We look forward to having you as a satisfied client!
Unfortunately, I own the full program and not the trial…………$150 program that barely works.
We have never released a trial version — so what I meant was to use UBot again. Also, what is the version of internet explorer that you are using?