Hi, I recently got interested in C++. I've learned pretty much all of the basics and now I am trying to write something useful. I always wanted to create some kind of web bot. So i want to ask you such a question: Do you use any bots at all? If yes, what kind of bots?(What do they do?) Thanks in advance
c++ is wonderful for a lot of different things, * video games * music processing * server systems code it SUCKS if you want to build some internet bot type of stuff -- I'd highly recommend you check out python or ruby or even perl for this type of activity I routinely am writing scrapers, crawlers, scanners, etc.. in ruby with software like hpricot, mechanize, etc. and so forth .... I can literally write these things within one afternoon cause it is so simple!
Why? because python, perl and ruby have ready to go parsing? what´s the point of using other peoples code? Don´t you want to learn anything or are you just lazy? Personally i think it´s a great idea to make one in C++ or C since you really have to think.. Coding for me isn´t about making fast money, it´s actually about learning stuff. Why do something you can do in your sleep? Flakas do something you think are useful.. Why not a crawler with keyword analyzer or something like that.
yes, it IS because I'm lazy .... i don't know about you but I don't have all the time in the world to scrape one site's content and stuff it into a database .... I want it done in one afternoon... I don't want to spend 2 weeks or a month writing the code ... I don't want to wait for it to compile I don't want to have to modify 200 lines of a class to port it to a different site. nothing against c++ -- just saying that if you want to get something done FAST it is not the way to go