How to write a Stumble bot

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone could give me some guidance on writing a bot that would click on the Stumble websites.

I have some experience with vb.Net. Not sure how I would go about writing something that would progressive click on the Stumble button on Firefox toolbar. Is it going to be a console application that uses a webclient?

Thanks in advance
Jes

 

Do you mean for the StumbleUpon toolbar?

If that's the case, the only way I can think of would be something like Office's macro recorder. Start you browser, start recording, click the button, stop recording, then play it back in a loop. But you'd need to do all kinds of low-level iccky Windows event handling stuff (unless you could convince stumbleupon to release their API).

Maybe you could track the request/response stream that happens when you do click that button? Then throw together a console app that mimics the stream?

Maybe I'm being really dumb, and this would be extremely easy to do using Windows Scripting. I've never played with that, so I have no idea.

Good luck!

 

Go and download Wireshark and see what the stumble upon button actually does as far as HTTP is concerned.

I suspect all it does is send a HTTP GET to some like "stumble.php" and gets a URL to visit as a response. You can easily recreate this with the HTTP classes in .net.

 

Thanks for the ideas guys, really appreciate your input.

 

It would also be nice to write a MyBlog bot

 

yes i agree, i found a site just them for a bot, worth their weight in gold till the accounts banned.