coding error, and I don't have a clue...

Looks to me that this bit
[function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
is telling you that this bit
file_get_contents(http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/eve/">events</a></small)
is not a correctly formatted filename. (Actually it can't find a file with that name, but it doesn't look like a proper file reference to me)

I'd be happy to help you out with your issue. From what it looks like is that the parser is not parsing the file correctly and brought in too much information (it should have only captured "http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/eve/").

Please note, I'm not familiar with your software, so this is just a guess as to what is actually happening.

Thanks to both for your reply. I'm not sure I will ever get this software to work, so I think my best option is to cut and run. I have another program that is not as good, but it does similar things, so I think I will put my best efforts there, but thanks again.

Mickey

[QUOTE=mmixon;2733051]A fellow warrior was nice enough to give away some software, Lead Scouter, that scrapes leads from Craigs List, but after installing the software as instructed, when I process a job, I get this error message when it tries to return the leads:

Was this the Ewan Chia product, I think yes very useful tool I use Apple though and have not extended to Mac. Getting e-mails from Classifieds is very effective way of finding leads and adding people to your social media, pitty its not working for you though.

I seen it on a webinar perhaps one of my newly invited friends will see this post and answer your question better. When you got it from a friend did you have to use a registration code or did you download with L Snitch?

Thanks Robert,

Actually it was being given away by Sean Hoffman in the warrior forum. He provided video tutorials on how to install it on Dream Host, which I did, and the program works, but when returning results, it gives an error code. I liked the look and feel of the program and am sorry it did not work, and i loved the price :-)

But I have purchased another couple of programs that do the same or similar thing, so I am thinking I would do better putting my best efforts there, rather than spending more time and effort trying to fix code, when I really don't know what I am doing.

Wish the program were hosted online so i could use it without having to host and install it myself, but it would still be worth the expense if it just worked. Oh well... Perhaps the copy I downloaded is an old one, and an updated version might work fine, don't know.

I think whoever programs that software should care a little more about error handling. At least he could write some code that indicates what that error is about in a more human readable format.

I used to be one of those guys that didn't care much about writing codes for error handling and when I found one that have all kinds of error, I feel the pain.

In my guess, the software maybe in .exe? if it was an open source code I might be able to take a look at figure out what is happening.

Looks like someone put a hyperlink instead of the straight URL within 'get_file_contents()'. The software may have parsed it incorrectly which caused it to overlap. No HTML should be in there, just the URL.

It should be:
instead of:

#3 is correct: It looks like there's a parser in the code built using preg_match or preg_match_all and there's a bug in the regular expression used to extract links.
If you can locate the preg_match function and post this line of code we could help debug.

Here is the code in question:

// Results_Page Stripping
// Strip out results from page
$start = strpos($content, '<!-- sphinx');
$end = strpos($content, '<br>', $start) + 8;
$raw_results = substr($content, $start, $end - $start);

// Strip out individual results
preg_match_all("|<a href=\"/(.*)</p>|U",$raw_results,$results);
foreach ($results[0] as $result)
{


// Strip out listing Title
$start = strpos($result, 'html">') + 6;
$end = strpos($result, '</a>', $start);
$title = substr($result, $start, $end - $start);

// Strip out listing URL
$start = strpos($result, '<a href="') + 10;
$end = strpos($result, '.html"', $start) + 5;
$listing_link = substr($result, $start, $end - $start);

//Listing_Page Stripping
$listing_link = $listing_url . "/" . $listing_link;
$listings_page = file_get_contents($listing_link);
........