How do I make a web bot?

How do I make my program comunicate with the web?

I want to code in C++(to practice the language), but can do it in java too.

Basically this is exactly what I want. To do:

I want my program to go to a given url/website. Browse to a needed category and then page, start a download from that page in a download manager, then once the download finishes, it goes to that same website, goes to a different category and starts a different download.

I think I could make the backend for this to work.

But I need: a way of my program to communicate with the web, and a way for my program to communicate with the download manager.

any help will be appreciated ))))

I guess uBot can get this done!

yousefgreat said:

I guess uBot can get this done!

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I want to make my own in C++ to get the practice

For java you can use URLConnection

wow really?
do you know any c++ or java?
if you know the language you shouldnt have any problem browsing a website...

Well i use winhttp.dll on all of my bots. Basically there are 2 ways you can do this. Either using winhttp.dll or using an embedded IE window in your program.

1. Learn how to do it
2. Do it.

Seriously now, you should ask in a C++ developer forum (maybe on Stack Overflow) if you want useful answers. Also try the C and C++ channels on IRC. Most people here are Internet marketers not C++ experts. Also, you may want to do some googling because the answers are there already. Just find some C++ HTML parsers and for the downloading part, will be easier to eliminate the download manager from your architecture as it won't be easy to use it from within your C++ program unless it has an exposed API. Or just use wget witc supports resuming and can be run from command line, hence interfaced from C++.

I am not a C++ coder, so do ask on C++ forums and IRC maybe there are better ways.

Dump C++. Use C# with WatiN. Vastly superior to most other botting libraries out there. If you're smart you can multithread it too.

If you're serious abotu scraping the web I wouldn't bother with a storngly typed language like C++, C# or Java. Go for a dynamic language like Python, Ruby, Perl, etc. They're much better suited to this sort of thing.

Ruby

• scrubyt.org
• nokogiri.org

Python

• scrapy.org
• wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize
• www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup