Forum Bot

Cheater · Senior Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 236

What if someone were to make a bot that would let you view, and post on a forum? You would give the URL of the main forum page, and tell it if it was Invision or phpBB and it would let you do stuff there. I know someone made a bot-depot tray for the old forum, so I think this should be possible. What do you think?

Cer · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:32 am Post subject: Re: Forum Bot

Cheater · Senior Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 236

So you couldn't use something like lwp:simple?

ERijkee · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 8:27 am Post subject:

I think LWP::Simple only does GET requests(only GET data), so you wont be able to use POST requests with that(these are used to post form data like the forum messages).
I think its a better idea to use the forum database, to use this you will need a password for the db.

darkmonkey · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:52 am Post subject:

I have created a script which allows you to POST on forums, you will need to edit it so that your bot can use it, by giving it your username and password etc, and then making it into a command. You can use LWP::Simple for viewing the topics and posts though, as the guy above me said.

Cer · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:39 pm Post subject:

HTTP::Request can be used to POST data.

Here's some code I had for using Google's translator...

alienz · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:14 pm Post subject:

You can also use LWP UserAgent to do POST and GET.

darkmonkey · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:

I just use UserAgent, and I set cookies etc.

Source

Description ("Invision Post")

Please note it works for Invision only. I'll make one for phpBB soon Smile

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Cer · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:45 pm Post subject:

Oh, awesome, I didn't know LWP::UserAgent could do cookies (I saw there was an LWP::Simple::Cookies but didn't figure that one out).

That's cool, there's some sites that require you be logged in to access certain things, we could make bot commands for those now. Smile

Or something.

Probably just something I would do. Rolling Eyes

alienz · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:37 am Post subject:

I already use LWP UserAgent quite a bit, so you wouldn't be alone there Razz

darkmonkey · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:45 pm Post subject:

Guess who told me how to do that...*cough matt cough*

Cer · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:48 pm Post subject:

darkmonkey · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 12:28 pm Post subject:

Hm, that shouldn't be too hard. VB has a function for it, which suggests Windows has a simple command.

alienz · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 4:16 pm Post subject:

Um, the Windows API is capable of many things like that. It is simply a connection to Windows functions and methods. Opening/closing the cd tray is one of them. Understanding how the Windows API works would go a long way in understanding how Matt did it.

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