Click to win - a quicker way

GeeBee38

Thanks mansey, i shall look into this when i get a better laptop

Mines a bit old

GeeBee38

Thanks for sharing womble_lancs

I like it

RAP_2

The only problem with opening loads of c2w tabs and enteringing them all at the same time is not all of the entries are always submitted. I used to do it this way until I reaised about 25% or my entries were not registered. This may just be a problem with my slow old computer but you may want to check that your entries are all going through OK. I still open loads of tabs but I make sure all the pages are loaded and entries are confirmed before I move on to the next.

RAP_2

PS I used snaplinks in firefox. Right click and drag down through the list of links and they all open. It can be used on any pages and you can, for instance, use it on the c2w sites to open all of the links on one page.

RAP_2

SpaceyKevin - I've also written a macro using Autohotkey that (essentially) clicks the "Enter This Competition" button, moves onto the next tab, and repeats until it reaches the last tab. This process is semi-automatic and is a huge time saver.

I tried doing this but it is a bit beyone me. What is the script you have used, I'd love to give it a go.

GeeBee38

RAP wrote: »

SpaceyKevin - I've also written a macro using Autohotkey that (essentially) clicks the "Enter This Competition" button, moves onto the next tab, and repeats until it reaches the last tab. This process is semi-automatic and is a huge time saver.

I tried doing this but it is a bit beyone me. What is the script you have used, I'd love to give it a go.

I would like to try this too, but i couldn't work it out

SpaceyKevin

GeeBee38 wrote: »

May i ask, how do you open so many tabs without the browser freezing?

I can only open about 10 tabs at a time?

I use a relatively high-end gaming PC. I forget the details (I don't have access to it at the moment) but I think it uses a 3 GHz CPU with 8 GB of RAM.

LadyMorticia

SpaceyKevin wrote: »

Instead of having all the C2W URLs in a document, I have all the pages saved and sorted in Chrome Bookmark folders. This way, I can open around 50 pages at the same time before the tab bar gets too crowded. I've also written a macro using Autohotkey that (essentially) clicks the "Enter This Competition" button, moves onto the next tab, and repeats until it reaches the last tab. This process is semi-automatic and is a huge time saver.

I highly recommend learning how to use Autohotkey whether you're entering competitions or not. It is incredibly useful for so many tasks.

As for finding new C2W competitions, I have a Python script that crawls through the pages of a few C2W sites, showing me newly posted C2W pages which I can then bookmark.

I'm interested in the Python script. Is this something that is available online or something that you have created?

SpaceyKevin

RAP wrote: »

"I've also written a macro using Autohotkey that (essentially) clicks the "Enter This Competition" button, moves onto the next tab, and repeats until it reaches the last tab. This process is semi-automatic and is a huge time saver. "

I tried doing this but it is a bit beyone me. What is the script you have used, I'd love to give it a go.

GeeBee38 wrote: »

I would like to try this too, but i couldn't work it out

The script I use is heavily tailored to my browser set up (folder location, screen size, etc.) but I can whip up something general.

; ; ; ; ;
^!r::Reload ; Reloads the Autohotkey script

!c:: ; Alt + C activates the macro
loop ; Loop begins
{
click ; Sends a mouse click
send ^{tab} ; Moves onto the next tab
sleep 1500 ; Waits 1.5 seconds
ifwinactive, New Tab ; Checks if the "New Tab" tab is currently active
break ; Stops the loop if the "New Tab" tab is active
}
return
; ; ; ; ;

This script requires several things to work properly.
Open a new browser window and you should have a "New Tab" active.
Open several C2W pages from the same site in new tabs to the right of the "New Tab".
Go to the first C2W tab and hover your mouse over the "Enter This Competition" button.
If the competition title fits on one line, hover your mouse over the lower half of the button. If the competition title is spread over two lines, hover your mouse over the upper half of the button.

i.imgur.com/YNhyD7X.png should make this clearer.

Press Alt + C and the macro should run. It will click the "Enter This Competition" button, move onto the next tab, wait 1.5 seconds and checks if the tab is the "New Tab" tab (i.e., reached the end of the tab list). If the "New Tab" tab is active, the macro terminates; otherwise, the process repeats.

If something goes wrong and you want to force the script to stop, press Ctrl + Alt + R to reload Autohotkey.

GeeBee38

Thank you for explaining SpaceyKevin, this is far too complicated for me