Zenno Action for waiting on specific port

[zenrast]

Hi,

i would like to have a Zenno template controlled by an external action.
So i was thinking that it would be nice to have a functionality (action) that would stop the execution
of the template and wait on specific port (like http://localhost:123/zenno/command=apple) for a command to continue.

Is something like this possible in zenno (maybe as custom code)?

 

[VladZen]

Not sure about port, but you can use WaitForUserAction method which allows user to stop the project and perform some actions manually, then continue.

 

[Tobbe]

Instead of keeping a connection open you could check every once in a while if the data has changed.
True = proceed. False = check again in 60 seconds.

 

[zenrast]

Hi Tobbe,

i use a simillar solution now. It has 2 disadvantages.
a) First is that this takes computer resouces if you have 100 running instances all doing request all the time.
b) And the second is that if takes a long time to get a response even for a really simple scrap. So it would be great to have something where i could programatically call zenno.

 

[Tobbe]

Maybe this will give you some ideas http://zennolab.com/discussion/threads/one-bot-to-start-another-bot-in-zennoposter.24861/

 

[zenrast]

The best would be to be able to run Zennoposter as a server (for example like the Selenium server does). In that way i would send an API command to "open a browser etc." to Zennoposter and he would handle this and at the end return a response to my request.
Made up example code:

<?php
$ZennoPosterServerBrowser = $Zenno->StartBrowser();
$results = $ZennoPosterServerBrowser->StartTemplate("Mytemplate")->Input("inputdata");
echo $results;
?>

This would be very benefitial for some fast any quick scrapping where i need the results verry fast.