Forum Bot

Discussion in 'Programming' started by BlueEew, Feb 10, 2008.

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    Hey, I would like to create a forum bot. However I have never coded anything like this, and I have also never thought about one of these before. Anyways I have a couple questions. Maybe someone could help me answer them;

    1) Is it legal for me to create a bot, which would post what I program it to on my own forums. Maybe forums others want it to be posted on also?

    2) The bot would register the forums I tell it to, and will post all posts I program in the files. So if I add two threads, it will post them on all forums automatically. Then if I added more to the program, it would instantly post them automatically.

    3) What programming language can this be done with?

    4) How would I set up the bot onto the Internet? Hosting?

    Thats all for now. :)

    Thanks,
    BlueEew.
     
    BlueEew, Feb 10, 2008 IP
  2. MrAlvarado

    MrAlvarado Peon

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    #2
    Answers to your questions:

    1) Yes it's legal to use only on your forum, if you want it to use it on other forums I do believe you need to ask permission from the owners as it will suck alot of bandwidths.

    2) Not sure what you are asking.

    3) It can be done in any language, but if you are learning the language you should start off with Visual Basics.

    4) You won't need to pay for hosting or anything like that, you will use a webbrowser object in which you will learn.

    Any other questions feel free to ask:)
     
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  3. Barti1987

    Barti1987 Well-Known Member

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    #3
    Both ways are ethically wrong.

    Peace,
     
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  4. DarkMindZ

    DarkMindZ Guest

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    I have been asked to do this once, for a warez site..

    I used PHP, and cURL lib to do the browsing / posting job.

    but that was a bit different, the other one goes to lots of warez sites, logs in, and reads latest threads, copys content, and posts them on that one warez site.. sort of content stealing really, but hey its warez lol.
     
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  5. Possibility

    Possibility Peon

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    I think the only way that you will really be able to do this is if you are using the bot to post on your own forums. It is also quite a task. Are you trying to spread your sig link around or something?
     
    Possibility, Feb 11, 2008 IP
  6. BlueEew

    BlueEew Well-Known Member

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    It is to post on my own forums. :)
     
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  7. Ryandarin

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    If it's for your own forums only, you could always write a script to insert what you want directly into the database through php, rather than having to deal with cUrl.
     
    Ryandarin, Feb 12, 2008 IP
  8. stealthstatus

    stealthstatus Banned

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    1/it-s legal, but my advice is to have ur own server
    2/it-s possible
    3/javascript
    4/it-s simple, you have a admin panel, but u cannot code this by yourself or you can try but it will take months
    give it a try here if you are determinated to make this and have money
     
    stealthstatus, Feb 12, 2008 IP