Amazon Pharmacy and Cloud Checks

[jennavee]

Hi, Im trying to use distill cloud checks to alert me when a medication is available on amazon pharmacy. The medication I’m trying for is in my dashboard so I need to use a profile to save my login info for the cloud checks to get through the password gate. Every few hours though, my monitors error out with SELECTION_EMPTY and sometimes when I go through my cloud profile to make sure Im logged in, it still shows me as logged in.

Is there a better way I should be using cloud profiles, proxies, etc to go about checking on this? Or am I not monitoring the parts of the page correctly? I added an image of the page, I have a general check on the add to cart button and two more on each of the text elements “Unable to add…” and “We’re working on resolving…”. When the item is available, those last two elements should be completely gone so maybe thats whats triggering the SELECTION_EMPTY?

Anyways, any pro tips on how to correctly monitor this item’s availability and what I could be doing better with my cloud profiles would be super appreciated. Thanks!

[jennavee]

[ajitk (Ajit)]

Hello @jennavee - can you click the “view details” link the log? It should show more details about the error. It also shows the page’s snapshot when the error occurred. It should show that the page when the error was logged.

If the SELECTION_EMPTY error happened because the selected elements are completely gone, then a simple solution is to add one more element to the selection. It could an element like the page’s title that usually do not change. In that case, the monitor will always find an element in the page and will trigger a change instead of erroring out.

Here is a related post that tries to solve a similar use cases:

Long pauses when jobs are no longer available due to SELECTION_EMPTY error

It is not possible to reduce the time that Distill waits for because it is hardcode in the module. We will think about making this configurable in the future. There are two ways that should work well in your case: By adding selections from the second page, you can monitor content from both pages. This is the best approach in my opinion. Alternatively, you can select the page’s title. Following post shows an example of how it was done in a similar case: How to fix SELECTION_EMPTY error for cour…

How to fix SELECTION_EMPTY error for courses.students.ubc.ca?

Got it, thanks! SELECTION_EMPTY error was triggered because the selection no longer matched any content after “Full” text was removed. A simple solution is to include one more element from the page. In this case, include the page’s title "PHIL 120 Introduction to Critical Thinking" in the page as an additional element. Or, you can monitor the whole row in the table as shown below: [image] Once done, you should be able to get alerts when “Full” status is no longer present. Hope this helps!

Do check them out and let me know if you need help.

Thanks for using Distill!