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What is the best bot software?

March 1st, 2010 | Author: Webboti

Bot software means a lot of different things to differnet groups of people.

Gamers may talk about automatic online opponents not played by a human but a computer. Cracker & hacker may talk about software to run bot nets. Last but not least programmers, coders as well as business men and women may talk about programs and software that automates certain parts of their business.

In this article we are going to talk about the last bot software meaning. Bot software for businesses and coders.

This post shows the advantages & disadvantages of available solutions. Read this before you pick your favorite! Read the rest of this entry »

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Tags: bot code, bot library, bot package, bot software, crawlers, Make or Buy, PHP, scraper, ubot, ubot studio, ubotstudio, web bot, webbot |

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What is a web bot?

February 23rd, 2010 | Author: Webboti

A bot does what a users does with his/her browser but more!

Basically a web bot is a program that does things a user could do with his browser (Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Opera, etc.) but much, much more.

Browsing the internet the regular way is fun but has certain limitations. Limitations like that someone has to actually browse and use the browser. Hmm what does that mean? Well sometimes you want to check things automatically – like if you have been out-bided by someone on ebay or if someone has written a comment on a blog-post you find interesting. All those things are very time consuming and the time adds up quickly just for those kind of repetitive tasks.

A web bot is the perfect solutions for this matter of doing repetitive tasks. The web bot can do the same things that you can do with your browser – just a lot faster.

Ok – but what exactly is a web bot?

A web bot basically is … Read the rest of this entry »