I made an RSS robot and wanted to publish it. After File -> Publish a dialog appears and says:  1. Contacting Openkapow and then, after a while  2. The Community Server at openkapow did not respond correctly. Would you like to retry? After a few retries I wanted to Report an error. But RoboMaker failed again. So now I'm doing ...

Robots to be used with Swivel must be tagged with the word "Swivel"

I typed in my username and password into the box that pops up from the file menu, but the Publish dialogue doesn't show up. I have tried my username and password to log into site, and they definitely work. The funny thing is that, if I donwload a different robot, the Publish option is there. Is there something else I need to do to enable the ...

Here are answers to some Frequently Asked Questions about openkapow, robots and RoboMaker. If you do not find the answers to your questions here then please take a look in the forums. Basics What is a robot? What is RoboMaker? Why should I register at openkapow? What is RSS robot? What is REST robot? What is a Web Clip ...

When learning a new programming language you will often start with a "Hello World" example, that will take you through some of the basic concepts of the language and the tools available. You can think of this tutorial as a "Hello Robot World" example, where the goal is to let you create, publish and use your very first ...

In this tutorial we will see how to create, test, publish and use a very simple REST robot using openkapow. The robot will create a REST service that searches Google and returns the first result of the search. This tutorial describes the process in great detail and most of it applies to RSS robots as well, and in some degree also to Clipping ...

In this tutorial we will see how to create, test, publish and use a very simple RSS robot using openkapow. The robot will create an RSS feed that contains only the very top story from Digg. This tutorial describes the process in great detail and most of it applies to REST robots as well, and in some degree also to Clipping robots.  It is ...