Alive check?

[player]

Is it possible to do an alive check with Zennoposter and how can i do it? I'd like to check if the sites are alive before processing them and filter dead sites out like scrapebox can do it.

thx

 

[Hungry Bulldozer]

You can do it checking text presence. If there is an error like "error 404" means dead link or something.

 

[player]

Hmm ok, i know that, but it could be a blank page or another error message etc. I have another idea now: maybe i'll check some lists with the alive checker from scrapebox and try to reproduce the same with ZP.

 

[shinigami]

hey men, check it out

 

[player]

Hmm, i think it can be coded in c#. Something with webrequest and httprequest. I tried it in visual studio, but the sites were always alive even if they were down.

 

[player]

Finally i found a good solution:

If a site is down you have a "dnserror" in the url. So i set up a new branch with Get | Html element and the following settings:

Parameters name: Get page URL
parameters: dnserror

Then i create a new branch with a logic operation and search for "dnserror". My expression looks like this:

"{-FieldData.FieldData-|-●5●3●5●3●4●3●-|-≡2≡0≡7≡7≡1≡8≡4≡3≡7≡5≡-}"=="dnserror"

If it's true the site is down and i save it in a file with all 404 error sites.