Wants to learn bot creation and automation process

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opeyemidy

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Hello guys, i have been learning web development for quite some time now and l am familiar with Javascript and PHP programming languages. I want to learn bot creation. I'll like you guy's advice, recommendations and guide on how to proceed. Thanks
 
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What kind of bot are you trying to make?
 
Bots can scrap data and manage social media accounts
 
If you are familiar with Javascript, PHP and how websites GET POST AJAX etc, you can simply open up Chrome developer tools and start checking for network request/responses for the website you want to automate and try to emulate those requests inside PHP, however, you will see obstacles if the website requires captcha and stuff, in such case you need a real browser and inject your script into the browser for automation (Id recommend Electron, C# or Chrome Extension for this).
 
CryptMedia said:
you can do that in JS with node or learn another language
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Yeah i'm already trying something out with node and puppeteer. What other nodejs tools can you recommend
 
aznxfrost said:
If you are familiar with Javascript, PHP and how websites GET POST AJAX etc, you can simply open up Chrome developer tools and start checking for network request/responses for the website you want to automate and try to emulate those requests inside PHP, however, you will see obstacles if the website requires captcha and stuff, in such case you need a real browser and inject your script into the browser for automation (Id recommend Electron, C# or Chrome Extension for this).
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I'll check it out. Thanks
 
Python would be helpful in order to scrape the data. There are many packages available around to import them as per your requirement.
 
I mean you can do it with any language more or less. I made a scraper in C# when I needed it for a specific purpose.

My suggestion is : try to figure out what you want to make. A bot? A scraper? Choose a language, then check if there are any libraries that will help with that development. Rest is just google, youtub and stackoverflow.
 
learn python for scraping and/or automating bot or you can use js for this (cheerio module)
 
Selenium at python would give you a great first impression of how great python can handle this.
 
I needed some instagram scrapping for a project and I learned a lot from stevesie. I would really recommend you to check stevesie.com as this guy has all the endpoints written out for you. He charges for his service but since ou are a programmer you could just copy all his endpoints and do it yourself.
 
try to simulate the web traffic of the web applicationt hat you are targeting. a local proxy like burp could be useful to learn about its behaviour from technical perspective. Easier choice would be smth like selenium webdrivers with python bindings
 
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