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Making a bot in PHP
Posted: 16 Jul 2006, 00:10
by Gogeta70
Well, i've decided to make a Yahoo bot in php... But i don't know what protocol it uses or anything, so do any of you guys know? Google didn't give me shit, plus this computer has so much adware it pops up like 8 windows every time i hit enter OR search in google...
Posted: 16 Jul 2006, 02:37
by FrankB
I think these might help you (for a crawler/spider at least) :
http://be.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php
and this module for crawling RSS and other (CVS, other XML based services/documents)
http://be.php.net/manual/en/ref.xmlrpc.php
From there on there are a sh*tload of other hints, tips and modules or packages to use that do Net::whatever in PHP.
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FrankB