Bots that do small tasks on WWWsites

[brokenbot]

Whats really required to make a bot that basically reads what a website is telling them and makes decisions and actions based on the data obtained from the website?

Do I need to know all the required technologies that are used within that website... make a program that parses the src of that website and makes decisions off that...? Or is it harder then that?

I'm really confused about making programs that do certain tasks based off data they completely get via program or websites etc. Not really confused... I haven't really tried to make any but would enjoy making some.

[brokenbot]

wth... someone has to know or have done this.

[ziodice]

I think that might be illegal. But that might just be making a bot that registers accounts over and over again.

[tritania]

If you just want to process the data, (and this is on windows) you could use URLDownloadtoFile
and then open it a .txt and process it that way. Also if you mean make decisions on the website itself I have no idea.

[atropos]

Whats really required to make a bot that basically reads what a website is telling them and makes decisions and actions based on the data obtained from the website

What do you mean by that? Like action responses in a game?

[brokenbot]

yes smh... what i'm doing isn't illegal. It's very very very legal. If anyone has any general details on making a bot... any kind of bot... then give them here please.