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Openkapow: Quick Start Guide
Openkapow: Quick Start Guide
openkapow
Quick Start Guide
openkapow
Quick Start Guide
Contents
WELCOME!.............................................................................................. 1
Legal Notice....................................................................................... 1
CREATE AN RSS FEED................................................................................ 2
Step 1 – Start RoboMaker .................................................................... 2
Step 2 – Create New RSS Robot............................................................ 2
Step 3 – Enter URL to Start From .......................................................... 3
Step 4 – Enter Name and Description .................................................... 4
Step 5 – Complete the Wizard .............................................................. 5
Step 6 – Choose Videos Tab ................................................................. 5
Step 7 – Choose Science & Technology .................................................. 7
Step 8 - Loop over Videos .................................................................... 8
Step 9 – Extract Title ........................................................................ 10
Step 10 – Extract URL ....................................................................... 11
Step 11 – Extract Description ............................................................. 12
Step 12 – Try your Robot in the Debugger............................................ 12
Step 13 – Publish the RSS Feed .......................................................... 13
Step 13 – Use Your RSS Feed ............................................................. 14
CREATING A REST WEB SERVICE ............................................................... 16
Step 1 – Start RoboMaker .................................................................. 16
Step 2 – Create a New REST Robot ..................................................... 17
Step 3 – Enter URL to Start From ........................................................ 18
Step 4 – Select Input Values .............................................................. 19
Step 5 – Select Output Values ............................................................ 21
Step 6 – Enter Word ......................................................................... 22
Step 7 – Select Translation Option ...................................................... 23
Step 8 – Click Translate ..................................................................... 25
Step 9 - Extract the Translation .......................................................... 26
Step 10 – Publish the Web Service ...................................................... 27
Step 11 – Try out the Robot ............................................................... 28
CREATING A WEB CLIP ............................................................................ 30
Step 1 – Start RoboMaker .................................................................. 30
Step 2 – Create a New Web Clipping Robot........................................... 31
Step 3 – Enter Start URL ................................................................... 32
Step 4 – Call the Bluff ....................................................................... 33
Step 5 – Add a New Clip Branch.......................................................... 33
Step 6 – Select clip in Call Bluff branch ................................................ 34
Step 7 – Select clip in Default branch .................................................. 37
iv ROBOSUITE OPENKAPOW QUICK START GUIDE
Welcome!
Welcome to openkapow RoboMaker. This quick start guide will help you
getting started writing and publishing robots on openkapow.
The RoboMaker application allows you to create, edit and debug robots.
RoboMaker comes with an extensive online help system, and a comprehensive
user manual.
Legal Notice
In this guide, we refer to the trademarks YouTube, blufr and altavista. This is
nominative use and is not indented as an infringement on the rights of the
trademark owner.
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your robots interaction with the page. Currently there are only two Steps, so
the robot does little more than load the home page of YouTube.
First, we want the robot to click on the Videos tab on the page. Right-click on
the Videos link and select Click from the right-click menu.
The results are shown below in the Input/Outputs tab. See the example
result below:
You can click on the underlined links to register, if you have not done so
already, or to retrieve your lost password.
Click on Publish to openkapow ( ) to publish the robot. If you have not
entered your username and password yet, the dialog for entering the
username and credentials will appear now (see Figure 14 above). If your user
credentials are valid, the dialog below will appear instead.
for the RSS feed directly. Most browsers will render the feed reasonable well,
even though it is not HTML.
openkapow will take care to run your robot at regularly scheduled intervals
to update the contents of the feed.
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Click Next or press Enter to continue to the next page. On this page you can
fill out the input values. Enter fish for the word input value.
After doing this, a dialog will appear. Select "English to German" in the drop-
down box.
After you have successfully published the robot, the following dialog will
appear:
Enter a value (e.g. road) and click Invoke Service. The robot will take the
input parameter, load the Babelfish page, fill out values, choose the language
option, click on the translate button and extract the translation. It will then
return the result as XML, which will be rendered like this in a browser:
This will trigger a new dialog window, where you can name the Clip Branch.
Name it Call Bluff, and press Finish.
Use the mouse and the arrows in the toolbar to select the part of the page to
clip. The selection is shown with red dashed lines. Continue until you have
selected the parts shown below.
When this is done, the Portlet View gets focus again, and shows a preview of
the clip:
Click on the End Clip step in the same branch to show how the interactive clip
will look:
After the robot has been uploaded, the following dialog will be displayed:
Conclusion
You can get more information on the openkapow site, at
http://www.openkapow.com. You can also read the RoboMaker User's Guide
that is included in the RoboMaker installation.
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Index
starting, 12
P RoboMaker, 1
password, 14 starting, 2, 17, 31
publishing robots, 13, 15 rss robot, 2
R U
RoboDebugger, 12 username, 14