webbot project

In what language can webbots be written in?

May 16th, 2009 | Author: Webboti

Since the main topic of this webbpage and blog are webbots, spiders and screenscrapers I though it it time for post just about this topic.

If you decide to create a webbot for a certain project you must decide what language you want to use and which one fits the webbot project best.

What language can you use to code a webbot, spider or scraper?

Basically it can be said that a webbot can be coded in any programming and scripting language. Depending on the bots purpose criteria have to be chosen which will help you to make the decision about the language to use. Those criteria are important because every language comes with its own advantages and disadvantages. However basically it does not matter if you use C, C++, Visual Basic, Asp-Net, Ruby, PHP, Java or any other language as long as the language supports the communication using a network protocol such as http, https, ftp etc.

Of course when choosing the language the coder’s or your preference and programming-language-knowledge also plays a big role.