Can I talk to my IRC-using friends via AIM? [more inside]
posted by Mwongozi on Jun 18, 2009 - 4 answers

What mischief is this LiveJournal bot up to? [more inside]
posted by anonymisc on Apr 12, 2009 - 6 answers

How would you know a decent chat bot if you found one? I'm wondering what kinds of tricks you would use to figure out it's a bot, and to figure out how (un)sophisticated it was. [more inside]
posted by marble on Feb 6, 2009 - 13 answers

I'm using Outlook 2007. It keeps trying to send spam emails! When I start it says that it has 980 messages to send, and once it's done one it'll say it's sent 1 of 981 etc and so on (this happens when I have it offline and let it run for a bit). I've run a few virus scanners and they've all come back saying it's clean. What's even more annoying is that my other computer has also started doing this. [more inside]
posted by kg on Oct 10, 2008 - 14 answers

I need help creating a web bot (for non-malicious purposes). Are there any tools out there to facilitate this? [more inside]
posted by chips ahoy on Dec 24, 2007 - 11 answers

I'm looking for sources of weather data (current conditions, forecasts) that are in text formats so that I can turn them into a Twitter weather bot. What I have in mind is either existing ASCII products (METAR, AVN MOS) or derivatives of image products that (e.g. a compact text encoding of a radar map through some kind of image analysis). Ideas welcomed. [more inside]
posted by edwardvielmetti on Oct 30, 2007 - 5 answers

Can I build/run a web bot? [more inside]
posted by benjh on Dec 21, 2005 - 10 answers

I need my own web bot. [more inside]
posted by benjh on May 9, 2005 - 7 answers

The rather rude Popdex bot has been bugging my referrer log every 5-10 minutes. I wish to block it via a "deny from" in my .htaccess, but the source address, http://h69-10-144-111.n-01.net, fails to resolve to an IP. How do I block this rather obnoxious crawler?
posted by brownpau on Jun 28, 2004 - 3 answers