Forum bot?

[STS]

Hi guys, i'm busy searching now and while i'm familiar with all other kinds of bots, i can't seem to find one or a good one with forums. i don't have all the experience or time in the world to search, so i wondered if there was one that existed that is decent? any kind will do for now, but basically i just want it to be able to keep track of users and to posts messages when asked a question directed at it.

am i asking for too much?

 

[NomNom]

Not entirely sure what you are looking for, but maybe this will help: http://www.hotscripts.com/

 

[STS]

i was thinking that may be it, i know you get IRC bots that log in and i know often spam bots come onto forums, i just wanted to have something that keeps track of votes and what's going on, and provides help when a certain phrase is typed.

thanks, this helps a lot

 

[HavocXphere]

Forum bots are fundamentally problematic. You'll be able to do all the things you want to....but it will nail the MyBB server.

Because we don't have access to the DB itself, it would have to be via web-scraper. To get good results, you'd need to scrape a large portion of MyBB regularly. Forums are dynamically generated, so each request uses up a decent chunk of resources. Multiply that by however many pages your scraping multiplied by how many times a day multiplied by how many are using the scraper. In short RPM will (quite rightly) throw a fit pretty soon.

There are ways to reduce the load on the server but these get complicated real quick and won't be 100% live.

 

[STS]

Forum bots are fundamentally problematic. You'll be able to do all the things you want to....but it will nail the MyBB server.

Because we don't have access to the DB itself, it would have to be via web-scraper. To get good results, you'd need to scrape a large portion of MyBB regularly. Forums are dynamically generated, so each request uses up a decent chunk of resources. Multiply that by however many pages your scraping multiplied by how many times a day multiplied by how many are using the scraper. In short RPM will (quite rightly) throw a fit pretty soon.

There are ways to reduce the load on the server but these get complicated real quick and won't be 100% live.

i thought that it might do something like that, but i was more interested in it doing an hourly check, update and then pissing off again. basically like what i would have done, simply minus me

that was what i was looking for, web-scraping, simply attached to checking one thread, updating and then waiting another hour, but i guess scripts could do that too. it's just difficult to manage 100 pages of comments, having to read through them myself to tally up votes and complaints

 

[HavocXphere]

i thought that it might do something like that, but i was more interested in it doing an hourly check, update and then pissing off again. basically like what i would have done, simply minus me

that was what i was looking for, web-scraping, simply attached to checking one thread, updating and then waiting another hour, but i guess scripts could do that too. it's just difficult to manage 100 pages of comments, having to read through them myself to tally up votes and complaints

If its a single thread then there might be a quick & dirty way around the problem. Grab something like AutoIt, create a macro that saves each page and then clicks on next page. Play that macro over & over. Then notepad++ or something to search across the saved pages.

 

[STS]

If its a single thread then there might be a quick & dirty way around the problem. Grab something like AutoIt, create a macro that saves each page and then clicks on next page. Play that macro over & over. Then notepad++ or something to search across the saved pages.

that is the only way that i saw it as possible so far, thanks guys