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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?

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Welcome

After a long planning and development phase i can announce with proud that webboti.com goes live.

By far …  everything is not done yet and there still is a lot to do but the foundational work has been completed and very soon a lot of tools, tutorials and downloads will be released at this very page webboti.com

What does Webboti mean?

Well webboti is the name of our little blue friend that can also be seen in the header. Webboti is a passionate small robot whose focus is on the web/Internet. Webboti informs about new technologies (web-related) and how it is being and can be used.

The topic that webboti is most interested in is about webbots, scrapers, screen scrapers, spiders and a ton of other applications that automate and simplify the web.

Webboti tries to show and explain everything as simple as possible. Besides webboti is happy about any questions, feedback and tutorials that you may sent in via our contact form. Yes you heared right -  if you have any questions to a specific topic or if you want to release a tutorial you have written yourself then you are at the right place.

Well thats it for now
Till soon

Your Webboti