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Ken,
The "error occurred while loading Plugin" message can return these possible values:
-1 Invalid Call: the argument is the Object property of a control
-2 Class name not found
-3 Object could not be created
-4 Could not connect to object
-9 Other error
-15 COM+ is not loaded on this computer
-16 Invalid Call: this function not applicable
In your case, it would appear that you need to run regsvr32 on your ph_urlscraper.ocx file.
Based upon your last post though, it would seem that you ended up getting it working.
Concerning the debug capability, that would be mostly up to how the plugin was written. I could modify it so that it uses an extra parameter in the INI file to trigger some kind of debugging mode with messageboxes or send info to the eventlog or even modify the plugin to have callable functions from within PowerHome to retrieve scrapes directly (looking at the code, I have something along these lines that I'll have to document).
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Actually I do not have anything working yet.
My "debugging" post was a complementary thought to find out if there was a way to see if I am even extracting any useful data.
I'll try the regsvr32 approach to see what happens. I hadn't thought of that.
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The ph_urlscraper.ocx file Registered OK, but I still get a "-2" error on re-initialization.
I even rebooted the computer, but it was not effective.
Any other thoughts?
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Ken,
Hmmm...what OS are you running? Its possible that one of the scraper subcomponents also needs registering.
Try running regsvr32 on cshtpax8.ocx. It'll be system32 if you're running a 32 bit OS otherwise it will be syswow64. Make sure you're running the regsvr32 function as an administrator (I like to right click the cmd prompt and select "Run as administrator" and then execute the regsvr32 function from there).
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Dave-
I'm running a 64-bit Windows 7 Professional system and attempting to Register cshtpax8.ocx results in the following error message...
Got any more ideas?
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Ken,
It should look like this:
regsvr32 "c:\windows\syswow64\cshtpax8.ocx"
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dhoward wrote:
It should look like this:
regsvr32 "c:\windows\syswow64\cshtpax8.ocx"
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That worked! I no longer have a Plugin Load Failure, but that said I am not getting any Triggers either, so clearly my attempts to find a string aren't working. Is there anything obviously wrong in the code I posted above?
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Ken,
It looks like it should work but I would need to test. Can you email me your urlscraper.ini file and the html for the page you're trying to scrape? I'll setup a system here and see what might be wrong.
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Got 'er going with your wonderful assistance Dave.
More thanks can I can express in mere words.
Have written up a Help file to document the "Care & Feeding" of this process for you to include in the next PH release. 
Hopefully it will be helpful to others, as this is a truly great option.
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Inspired by Syonker's Awesome Get Weather Data approach (using the Weather Underground API) and the new PH URLscraper Plugin, I have written a How-To document that describes the shortest, cleanest, easiest to use weather grabber I have ever tried.
Its writeup can be found here...
http://www.power-home.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4453&PN= 1&TPN=1
Thanks Syonker and Dave for creating the strong foundations that made this all possible.
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