Unfortunately I dont admin any forum to see what you are seen, so I only have access to the forum search engine but I know that the Admin (the one able to delete the forum) is a different view.
I know the individual post url is on a (very small) icon next to the Posted date. If you search for 'Posted:' on the source you will find something like this. <td width="100%">*<a href="viewtopic.phtml?p=725853#725853 <http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=725853#725853>">*<img src=" templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost_new.gif <http://www.oooforum.org/forum/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost_new.gif>" width="12" height="9" alt="New post" title="New post" border="0" /></a><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 4:36 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: reinserting spaces in text where spaces removed</span></td> On the blob of HTML that you gave me, I could read a similar URL after 'RobinColvin': <view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/profile.phtml?mode=viewprofile&u= 294602>">RobinColvin</a> <a href="viewtopic.phtml?p=725805#725805 *<view-source:* *http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=725805#725805* <http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=725805#725805>*>">*<img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_latest_reply.gif <view-source: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/templates/subSilver/images/icon_latest_ reply.gif>"alt="View latest post"title="View latest post"border="0"/></a></span></td> I also looked at iMacros, and found a couple of tutorials about Data extraction for URLs: http://wiki.imacros.net/Data_Extraction#The_Extract_command and images urls: http://forum.imacros.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5703 On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <and...@pitonyak.org > wrote: > On 09/01/2014 03:15 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > >> Yup my idea is that you have an array with the spam users, perform a >> search >> on them, and then fill out the page with the posts related to the spam >> users, and just have the macros select all checkboxes and press the >> delete, >> and go to the next page. That would allow you to get all the spam from >> that >> user at least in a smaller process. >> > > I was able to use iMacros to search for all posts by a specific user. I > was able to export the text from the found rows. I have not figured out how > to export the links to each individual message. > > Sadly, I must navigate to each spam thread and delete each thread > individually. If I am able to figure out how to export each spam link, I > can always use some other scripting language that I know well to create > huge scripts that itemize each "bad thread". I am able to post a sample > HTML output if anyone knows how to use iMacros. To make things even worse, > it probably only shows about 40 messages per page. The biggest hurdle is > simply learning iMacros; it is a bit cryptic. > > > >> Well is not really coding in Javascript since greasemonkey takes care of >> that. Remember that you only need to change the url for the page of the >> query result. Greasemonkey has a script called AutoFill where you only >> need >> to select the name value of the HTML control and modify it to be checked. >> The next task is to press the Button control to delete, and the final step >> is to go to the next query in time. Probably the URL will have a page like >> ?p=23 so is a matter of increments. >> >> Hmmm. Not sure that would help much in this case. > > The search part is easy. It then returns a page containing a table with > entries such as this: > > table width="100%"cellpadding="4"cellspacing="1"border="0" > class="forumline"align="center"> > <tr> > <th width="4%"height="25"class="thCornerL"nowrap="nowrap">& > nbsp;</th> > <th class="thTop"nowrap="nowrap"> Forum </th> > <th class="thTop"nowrap="nowrap"> Topics </th> > <th class="thTop"nowrap="nowrap"> Author </th> > <th class="thTop"nowrap="nowrap"> Replies </th> > <th class="thTop"nowrap="nowrap"> Views </th> > <th class="thCornerR"nowrap="nowrap"> Last Post </th> > </tr> > <tr> > <td class="row1"align="center"valign="middle"><img > src="templates/subSilver/images/folder.gif <view-source:http://www. > oooforum.org/forum/templates/subSilver/images/folder.gif>"width="19"height="18"alt="No > new posts"title="No new posts"/></td> > <td class="row1"><span class="forumlink"><a > href="viewforum.phtml?f=2 <view-source:http://www. > oooforum.org/forum/viewforum.phtml?f=2>"class="forumlink">OpenOffice.org > Writer</a></span></td> > <td class="row2"><span class="topictitle"><a > href="viewtopic.phtml?t=368059&highlight= <view-source:http://www. > oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=368059&highlight=>"class="topictitle">buying > Maxaman, Maxaman order code, Maxaman without dr</a></span><br /><span > class="gensmall"></span></td> > <td class="row1"align="center"valign="middle"><span > class="name"><a href="profile.phtml?mode=viewprofile&u=294602 > <view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/profile. > phtml?mode=viewprofile&u=294602>">RobinColvin</a></span></td> > <td class="row2"align="center"valign="middle"><span > class="postdetails">0</span></td> > <td class="row1"align="center"valign="middle"><span > class="postdetails">30</span></td> > <td class="row2"align="center"valign="middle"nowrap="nowrap"><span > class="postdetails">Fri Aug 29, 2014 9:19 am<br /><a > href="profile.phtml?mode=viewprofile&u=294602 <view-source: > http://www.oooforum.org/forum/profile.phtml?mode=viewprofile&u=294602>">RobinColvin</a> > <a href="viewtopic.phtml?p=725820#725820 <view-source:http://www. > oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=725820#725820>"><img > src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_latest_reply.gif <view-source: > http://www.oooforum.org/forum/templates/subSilver/images/icon_latest_ > reply.gif>"alt="View latest post"title="View latest > post"border="0"/></a></span></td> > </tr> > <tr> > <td class="row1"align="center"valign="middle"><img > src="templates/subSilver/images/folder.gif <view-source:http://www. > oooforum.org/forum/templates/subSilver/images/folder.gif>"width="19"height="18"alt="No > new posts"title="No new posts"/></td> > <td class="row1"><span class="forumlink"><a > href="viewforum.phtml?f=2 <view-source:http://www. > oooforum.org/forum/viewforum.phtml?f=2>"class="forumlink">OpenOffice.org > Writer</a></span></td> > <td class="row2"><span class="topictitle"><a > href="viewtopic.phtml?t=368050&highlight= <view-source:http://www. > oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=368050&highlight=>"class="topictitle">buying > Maxaman, Maxaman order code, Maxaman without dr</a></span><br /><span > class="gensmall"></span></td> > <td class="row1"align="center"valign="middle"><span > class="name"><a href="profile.phtml?mode=viewprofile&u=294602 > <view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/profile. > phtml?mode=viewprofile&u=294602>">RobinColvin</a></span></td> > <td class="row2"align="center"valign="middle"><span > class="postdetails">0</span></td> > <td class="row1"align="center"valign="middle"><span > class="postdetails">18</span></td> > <td class="row2"align="center"valign="middle"nowrap="nowrap"><span > class="postdetails">Fri Aug 29, 2014 9:15 am<br /><a > href="profile.phtml?mode=viewprofile&u=294602 <view-source: > http://www.oooforum.org/forum/profile.phtml?mode=viewprofile&u=294602>">RobinColvin</a> > <a href="viewtopic.phtml?p=725805#725805 <view-source:http://www. > oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=725805#725805>"><img > src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_latest_reply.gif <view-source: > http://www.oooforum.org/forum/templates/subSilver/images/icon_latest_ > reply.gif>"alt="View latest post"title="View latest > post"border="0"/></a></span></td> > </tr> > <tr> > <td class="row1"align="center"valign="middle"><img > src="templates/subSilver/images/folder.gif <view-source:http://www. > oooforum.org/forum/templates/subSilver/images/folder.gif>"width="19"height="18"alt="No > new posts"title="No new posts"/></td> > <td class="row1"><span class="forumlink"><a > href="viewforum.phtml?f=2 <view-source:http://www. > oooforum.org/forum/viewforum.phtml?f=2>"class="forumlink">OpenOffice.org > Writer</a></span></td> > <td class="row2"><span class="topictitle"><a > href="viewtopic.phtml?t=368024&highlight= <view-source:http://www. > oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=368024&highlight=>"class="topictitle">buying > Maxaman, Maxaman order code, Maxaman without dr</a></span><br /><span > class="gensmall"></span></td> > <td class="row1"align="center"valign="middle"><span > class="name"><a href="profile.phtml?mode=viewprofile&u=294602 > <view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/profile. > phtml?mode=viewprofile&u=294602>">RobinColvin</a></span></td> > <td class="row2"align="center"valign="middle"><span > class="postdetails">0</span></td> > <td class="row1"align="center"valign="middle"><span > class="postdetails">18</span></td> > <td class="row2"align="center"valign="middle"nowrap="nowrap"><span > class="postdetails">Fri Aug 29, 2014 9:04 am<br /><a > href="profile.phtml?mode=viewprofile&u=294602 <view-source: > http://www.oooforum.org/forum/profile.phtml?mode=viewprofile&u=294602>">RobinColvin</a> > <a href="viewtopic.phtml?p=725785#725785 <view-source:http://www. > oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=725785#725785>"><img > src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_latest_reply.gif <view-source: > http://www.oooforum.org/forum/templates/subSilver/images/icon_latest_ > reply.gif>"alt="View latest post"title="View latest > post"border="0"/></a></span></td> > </tr> > > ...... many more.... > > In iMacro, I have not figured out how to grab all of the references such > as: "viewtopic.phtml?t=368050&highlight=" > > The problem is that the numbers are not sequential for finding the > threads. It is even more difficult if I want to find all of the posts in > one shot, which would mean that I would need to then grab 10 or 11 more > pages of lists such as: "search.phtml?search_id=198406476&start=50" > for page 2, so, I suppose that it shows around 50 at a time. > > It is just a question of how much time I have to figure out how to do this > (meaning learn iMacros or similar). I spent a few hours worrying about this > today and then I went with my family to an apple orchard for some family > time. > > > > > > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
