05-04-2016, 11:29 PM
Sorry my reply was a bit brief. I agree that the reply from scrapebox is just a fog off.
Anyway after more testing I believe that the problem is actually a couple of things. Firstly, it definitely wasn't just a coincidence as I had on one machine, scrapebox which wouldn't return any results. Then on another machine (same network) that had php installed, I had a simple moz client example that gets the same metrics using the moz api key. I was testing with the example client, then scrapebox, then back again. Scrapebox always wouldn't work, but the moz client did.
So then after creating a new ascii text file (RichB409: this is just a standard new notepad text doc) and putting a couple of URLs in, it worked. So 100% guarantee that my problem was that the file that one of the plugins created (vanity checker I think, I can't remember - I have only just started using it) was not in utf format that had caused issues with the page auth plugin.
So all good, I thought that was the problem. But no, it started not working again. This time though the php example client also returned blank. I tried on another server PC I had in a different network, using my same moz credentials, and it worked.
My theory is that when I was testing before, I was using it quicker than 10 second increments that the dev/trial key allows for so therefore banned my IP. After a few hours, it started working again.
As of right now, scrapebox is working. In page auth plugin, if you load URLs directly from harvester, (rather than file) then this should work as it's not using any saved text files anyway.
Sorry this is a bit of a confusing post as I had realised certain things half way though but for anyone who is having problems, you want to first make sure 100% that you exclude scrapebox from the whole picture and download the example moz client, put your credentials in and see if that works. If it doesn't work on that then it's not a scrapebox issue.
Use one of the moz api clients from here: https://github.com/seomoz/SEOmozAPISamples - I used the php one as I already had php installed (php/complete/examples) then I edited url_metrics_example.php and put my moz api credentials in there, then run the php file and see if it returns any results.
Anyway after more testing I believe that the problem is actually a couple of things. Firstly, it definitely wasn't just a coincidence as I had on one machine, scrapebox which wouldn't return any results. Then on another machine (same network) that had php installed, I had a simple moz client example that gets the same metrics using the moz api key. I was testing with the example client, then scrapebox, then back again. Scrapebox always wouldn't work, but the moz client did.
So then after creating a new ascii text file (RichB409: this is just a standard new notepad text doc) and putting a couple of URLs in, it worked. So 100% guarantee that my problem was that the file that one of the plugins created (vanity checker I think, I can't remember - I have only just started using it) was not in utf format that had caused issues with the page auth plugin.
So all good, I thought that was the problem. But no, it started not working again. This time though the php example client also returned blank. I tried on another server PC I had in a different network, using my same moz credentials, and it worked.
My theory is that when I was testing before, I was using it quicker than 10 second increments that the dev/trial key allows for so therefore banned my IP. After a few hours, it started working again.
As of right now, scrapebox is working. In page auth plugin, if you load URLs directly from harvester, (rather than file) then this should work as it's not using any saved text files anyway.
Sorry this is a bit of a confusing post as I had realised certain things half way though but for anyone who is having problems, you want to first make sure 100% that you exclude scrapebox from the whole picture and download the example moz client, put your credentials in and see if that works. If it doesn't work on that then it's not a scrapebox issue.
Use one of the moz api clients from here: https://github.com/seomoz/SEOmozAPISamples - I used the php one as I already had php installed (php/complete/examples) then I edited url_metrics_example.php and put my moz api credentials in there, then run the php file and see if it returns any results.