Hacking stops for a variety of reasons and must be restart manually

[minenightowl]

I find that sometimes the OCR sends back the wrong text, and when it does it spams the console with what the title says, i think that if it says bar hasnt moved maybe it should send another request?

[snollygolly]

Yeah, there's a few reasons that hacking stops, but OCR failing is definitely one of them. It's a really tough problem to solve for a few reasons.

The main one is that sometimes after you enter a word the progress bar doesn't move, even though the word is correct. I don't know if this is an attempt at throttling, or something going wrong with the server (perhaps due to load). I do know that if you soldier through and keep submitting words, you seem to get permanently disconnected.

I think the only solution is perhaps a 30-60 second wait period before resuming, probably with a different target.

[minenightowl]

Yea I noticed that if I "hack" right up to around lvl 10 and dont stop it boots me from the server

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Yeah, there's a few reasons that hacking stops, but OCR failing is definitely one of them. It's a really tough problem to solve for a few reasons.

The main one is that sometimes after you enter a word the progress bar doesn't move, even though the word is correct. I don't know if this is an attempt at throttling, or something going wrong with the server (perhaps due to load). I do know that if you soldier through and keep submitting words, you seem to get permanently disconnected.

I think the only solution is perhaps a 30-60 second wait period before resuming, probably with a different target.

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[snollygolly]

Might be resolved entirely by #22

[myrondebruijn]

Hi, why not use app.stop() and app.automate() in the if statement when the bot can't fill in the word or the prograss bar hasn't moved? The code below never stops running

            if (waiting === true) {
                const newHackProgress = parseHackProgress($("#progressbar-firewall-amount").attr("style"));
                // check to see if it's new
                if (hackProgress === newHackProgress) {
                    // the bar hasn't moved
                    log("* Progress bar hasn't moved, waiting");
                    // maybe the URLs have changed
                    // the user must press "restart bot"
                    listingURL = {};
                    app.stop();
                    app.automate();
                    // TODO: make this an automatic process
                    return;
                } else {
                    // the bar has moved
                    hackProgress = newHackProgress;
                    waiting = false;
                }
            }

[snollygolly]

When I originally did that part, having it like that resulted in it occasionally rapidly cycling. May work now though? Submit a PR and I'll test.

[myrondebruijn]

Will do that in a bit, and it works fine now. Runned it the whole night and I am currently level 940 without any problems

[snollygolly]

I just did a full refactor of the code, so I don't think it's needed anymore (as I think you might suspect). Closing.