thedayismine Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Hello bloggers, I was wondering if someone would lead me in the right direction please. I want to create a web robot, something like an email, (but not a simple form). I want this robot to catch usernames and send them a message. Like an "auto-msg" tool. Something that would enable me to send a message to.. all my friends on a forum, or all the members on a website. From the short bit of research I've done- I've heard that I will need to use any of the following -"php & apache" -a webscrapper with some sort of script -curl library All though, I really don't know much about any of the above- more people that were suggesting 'what to do' were pushing toward "php & apache server" I can give a detailed description of how I want the program to work- but first I want to ask if there is anyone here who can help me out with this? if it's not too much work? please note- this will NOT be used to spam websites! so please don't let that hold you back from helping or giving suggestions- thank you for reading, I'll await your reply Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/122165-web-robot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 What do you need to know? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/122165-web-robot/#findComment-630847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
valtido Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 thats just silly why would u need all those emails if u wouldnt spam ppl lol anyways CURL can b used within the php. dont really need apache. this is a lot of work lol n u need to b an expert to do that, if i was you i would give up now unless u can find a script out there that someone has done it. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/122165-web-robot/#findComment-630860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
burn1337 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 hhmm something like that, well I wouldn't know never tired it, but if I ever decide to try it ill let you know how it goes lol Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/122165-web-robot/#findComment-630870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedayismine Posted September 1, 2008 Author Share Posted September 1, 2008 What do you need to know? just some pointers on how to start this- Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/122165-web-robot/#findComment-631163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 If you have no experience writing bots then I recommend this book: http://nostarch.com/webbots.htm If you have no php experience then I suggest a beginners php book also. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/122165-web-robot/#findComment-631191 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blinky001 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 forget php (although it is possible and I have written classes for this before) and look to perl. Search CPAN for Mechanize and tokeparser. They are the packages that you need to get going. If you are a m$ user you will likely need cygwin or something to run perl. Please don't build a spambot with these tools... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/122165-web-robot/#findComment-631198 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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