@satans_apprentice - What operating system are you using and are you on version 1.0.2.1? Can you send me the text that appears when it crashes? You can usually hit "more details" and it gives more info.
Question. I do all my scraping with GScraper. If i add additional footprints into my engines using this tool will it allow me to post to more sites or just scrape more?
@sweeppicker - Well its basically allowing it to search for more possible targets which would lead to more submissions. Depending on how good your footprints are will determine how many of those newly scraped sites will be successfully submitted.
If you're seeing it scraping a lot more targets but seeing "no engine matches" then you can try to drill down to get more targeted footprints.
Also crashing in VPS when I press next after selecting engine.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: SER Footprint Editor.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 52cd16b4
Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17514
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ce7c78c
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000000000000a49d
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.274.10
Locale ID: 1033
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Would it be considerably less optimal to just take all the footprints under one engine (such as all pre-defined footprints under Article in SER) and finding more footprints with Gscraper?
Then I would just have one "All Article Modified" area for all the new footprints found in Gscraper.
The new section would just be a hodge podge of new footprints for all the Article engines for GSA to use... not separated at all. Is that a bit too hacky? To find footprints for each and every platform would take a long time... just looking for a shortcut.
@Santos I'd like to add to @mcscappum 's post as I have thousands of footprints across a wide range of platforms that I'd like to use but is there a way of loading them all in and the tool figuring out what SER Engine is for what footprint? I know this sounds like a very lazy person's question and I should just get on with it and load each relevant footprint to each Engine but it will take forever...plus there are some footprints that I don't know go with what Engine, or at least I wouldn't want to miss out on potential targets......
I know it might be impossible or it might cause billions of duplicates but that's what the 'remove duplicate URL/domains/clean list' is for in SER....
Or.....am I better off buying Gscraper and importing lists? I am running the footprints through Scrapebox but I fear that I'm not getting as good a list as I could be.
Unfortunately, there is no way to load all the footprints into the tool and have it sort them for each platform. It would have to have some kind of platform detection and would require a lot more development and really not sure how well that would work.
The whole idea is to add targeted footprints to the existing engines but if you're adding a bunch of mixed footprints or footprints that aren't really targeted for that engine, you might do a lot of scraping and just end up with a lot more "no engine matches".
What you should do is focus on the engines you use the most. You definitely don't need to add footprints to every platform.
For me, I've beefed up some of the contextual platforms because I use those the most. If you use a lot of guestbooks, image comments, etc. then you can add those.
Gscraper is just a more automated way to get possible footprints but it isn't perfect.
It does take time to come up with footprints but it's probably worth it if done right.
Who knows, maybe someone will come up with a "footprint pack" for sale or something.
Gscraper is great. Although Yes it's very Time consuming I spent a week scraping and getting new footprints for platforms. But just from that alone I'm seeing a ton more targets.
@DonCorleone - No absolutely not. All your footprints and how you use the software is completely private. The server is just used for automatic updating.
How I can check I am having the latest version? I am having 1.0.1.39. Is it latest one? And also does this software has update notfications function as in GSA Ser?
@s4n0s, please tell me, more footprints will cause, that GSA SER will be better in identyfing platforms, or it is just for getting new websites from search engines?
@ToptActics - Actually, we just added that feature a couple of minutes ago after I read your comment but hold on, there is still something that needs to be tweaked with the import button. Stand by for another update.
Hi @s4nt0s,
I installed the last version but I don't have (or I don't see) any platforms in SER Footprint editor.
I assume I miss somewhat on my PC but I don't know what.
Do you have any idea?
Thanks.
Do you have SER installed on your machine? You need to click the "load" button in the footprint editor and select the engines folder in the SER install directory. See video on the first page.
Possibly a dumb question, but is there a fast way of getting all of my modified engines to be checked in SER once I've made them? Obviously my projects vary so I can't just do it in bulk...I don't think.. I have only done the Article engines, so I have plenty more work to do with this but the results are insane with modifying them.
Possible dumb question number 2 - do you just try all different types of footprints and see what the target amount is, keep the good ones, delete the bad ones? Obviously using .edu type footprints with blogspot.es wouldn't bring any results, but I have possibly 1000 footprints and want to get the most out of each engine...
OK i tested the software by adding the footprints step by step in little parts. It seems to be that the software cannot handle the amount of footprints. It adds footprints till an maximum of like 1700 Footprints.
If you can bugfix, this would be fine, otherwise i have to change strategie and make only "the best of the best" footprintlists with combining snippets which will be present on nearly every site of the specific plattform.
Imagine you make 1 footprint combining 3 snippets. this would be only 13 snippets to generate 1716 unique footprints. Like N*(N-1)*(N-2) = Ω = Number of "3 part" footprints with N= snippets.
@TOPtActics - So the software is running ok on your machine now? There shouldn't be any limitation for adding the footprints via the software. What happens when you try to add more than 1700? Honestly, I don't think there is any platform out there that would need anywhere near that amount of footprints.
@Judderman - What do you mean the modified engines to be checked in SER? Checked in what way? I try to make my footprints as targeted as possible. It's way better to have 20 targeted footprints for a specific platform then 1,000 that are more generic.
Hi @Santos - I mean once I've modified and saved the engines in the footprint tool, they show up in SER but with the check box unchecked/unticked. Cool thanks for the info. I knew there wouldn't be a silly quick way to do it, suppose I'd get a lot of engine/platform not supported messages in SER if I just threw all of the footprints at each engine and a tonne of duplicates no doubt.
Some of the modified engines I have produce 100x more verified the standard engines
@s4nt0s: if iam trying to add more than 1700 the software gives me the Error i send to you (private message).
In general the footprints i generate are mostly for gscraper and hrefer and i use no "inurl" etc... dorks to generate my footprints. This works perfect to find a large amount of targets which wheren't hardcore exploited because i use less general keywords but more footprints in the search. If your software restricts 1700 footprints i have a workaround, but i need to make "extra" footprintlists for SERFE with more popular footprints like "powered by ... " stuff and also use "inurl:..." stuff. So i have to search 13 URL and Text Snippets in total to generate not more than 1700 footprints. This means i have to generate specific lists for SERFE and cannot use the footprints i use in hrefer etc....
@s4nt0s: I can see why some specific users might find this useful but for the general user surely you add most scrap-able platform footprints to the GSA software by your amazingly frequent software updates?
s4nt0s, how do you handle GSA updates? i mean every time GSA update a script it will delete the footprints but you want to get updates as those are important so the script keep working?
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So far, so good
Our net has been running in reverse today, im sure of it for the speeds I have been getting
Even getting a decent connection to my vps has been hit and miss, with no one else using the net here
So I haven't been able to get on and have a proper play and tweak
Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: SER Footprint Editor.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 52cd16b4
Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17514
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ce7c78c
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000000000000a49d
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.272.7
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: ab93
Additional Information 2: ab9302d0a1474eea88eb6fbe48e1f692
Additional Information 3: 903c
Additional Information 4: 903c7ee37ea7566e31fc270f0b8f0a24
The new section would just be a hodge podge of new footprints for all the Article engines for GSA to use... not separated at all. Is that a bit too hacky? To find footprints for each and every platform would take a long time... just looking for a shortcut.
before everyone asks for the footprint list:
Download ZenDesk Footprints
@s4nt0s: i got .NET Framework Failures when working on the importation. Is that what have to be tweaked? Is the Paste button working instead?
@s4nt0s: my version still showing 1.0.0.0 but i see all the new features.
Changelog is working...
after download:
If you can bugfix, this would be fine, otherwise i have to change strategie and make only "the best of the best" footprintlists with combining snippets which will be present on nearly every site of the specific plattform.
Imagine you make 1 footprint combining 3 snippets. this would be only 13 snippets to generate 1716 unique footprints. Like N*(N-1)*(N-2) = Ω = Number of "3 part" footprints with N= snippets.
In general the footprints i generate are mostly for gscraper and hrefer and i use no "inurl" etc... dorks to generate my footprints. This works perfect to find a large amount of targets which wheren't hardcore exploited because i use less general keywords but more footprints in the search. If your software restricts 1700 footprints i have a workaround, but i need to make "extra" footprintlists for SERFE with more popular footprints like "powered by ... " stuff and also use "inurl:..." stuff. So i have to search 13 URL and Text Snippets in total to generate not more than 1700 footprints. This means i have to generate specific lists for SERFE and cannot use the footprints i use in hrefer etc....
Thats no problem but an awareness