how do you create a bot?
which language do you use, how do you get it to work... i just want to know, if you can tell me in this post, or if you know of a good internet tutorial...
thanks! 
For what purpose do you need a bot ?
i am also interested to know about it. Someone please help. (if can)
I know that bots that Wikipedia and Wikia use are made from a Python script which you run from your PC. As long as you are on, the bot will run too. This might be a completely different bot than of what you are asking though.
as {name here} said, would be great if you could be abit more specific with what bot you are asking for.
Bots arent just made from Python..
Bots or crawlers/spiders can be made from many other languages, im guessing you are on about a Web Bot?
If not what else. IRC bot?
| panic15 wrote: |
Bots arent just made from Python..
Bots or crawlers/spiders can be made from many other languages, im guessing you are on about a Web Bot?
If not what else. IRC bot? |
i am interested about WEB BOTS, but please also tell what is IRC bot?An IRC bot is a bot that Idle's in an IRC channel (IRC is Internet Relay Chat, basically a way of talking/sending data over internet through an IRC client)
The IRC bot acts as a human holding the IRC channel..
For WebSpiders, there are many. Ones that Index pages, ones that do malicious things etc... Need to be more specific.
| panic15 wrote: |
Bots arent just made from Python..
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Yeah, but I know that a few bots are programmed in that, and if you look around Wikipedia, some of the makers of the bots have released them as open source, so you don't have to do a majority of the programming to make a bot.Oh, sorry if i hadn't been specific, I just don't know about bots.. Yes, I meant web bots, for example in Wikipedia, they say they have bots crawling the pages to check if they are valid or something...
Could someone just tell me something about the languaje used, if you know about any webs where i could find tutorials or examples... I tried in google but im not sure what to search for, since "bots" showed only IRC bots...
thanks!
| alalex wrote: |
| Oh, sorry if i hadn't been specific, I just don't know about bots.. Yes, I meant web bots, for example in Wikipedia, they say they have bots crawling the pages to check if they are valid or something... |
Well, they revert vandalism, add interwiki links, tag articles that seem to have bad formatting, automate AfD, et cetera.
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Could someone just tell me something about the languaje used, if you know about any webs where i could find tutorials or examples... I tried in google but im not sure what to search for, since "bots" showed only IRC bots... |
Well, there is a wikipedia bot framework that is open source made under Python you can use. There is also one in perl, though if you have the knowlege in programming no single language is out of use. Of course, if you want you can make a javascript bot like the SckrTrckrBot on Uncyclopedia, but you have a few limitations in exchange for the ease of scripting it in a browser interpreted language. | alalex wrote: |
how do you create a bot?
which language do you use, how do you get it to work... |
AIML for Artificial Intelligence Markup Language and I am putting here a reference to a site to give you idea about software robot hosting http://www.pandorabots.com/botmaster/en/home
although for a fact, there are other languages that can be used.
Or as you have been asking how to create IRC bot, here's the link to http://www.combined-minds.net/tutorials/7/Reading_a_website_in_PHP
Hope this would help a little.
Good luck to all your desire.Ya, I have created a few bots in PHP but I find that PHP isn't the best language for bot making but I use it since its one of the few server side languages I know. If you have heard of rune scape or ever played it you would notice all the websites that offer forum signatures that have your updated stats (dynamic signatures) the coding behind that is in a way a bot, and usually done in PHP I made one.
Hope that helps but to become good at making bots you really need to go in depth into one of the suggested languages.
