What is a bot? (The ones that can purchase things faster than humans) How do they work?

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What is a bot? (The ones that can purchase things faster than humans) How do they work?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

A bot is simply a program designed to interact with something in a particular way. So, a chat bot is a program designed to send and receive chat messages and respond in some way that kind of, sort of, not really passes for human.

I’m not sure of the particulars of the bots you’re taking about, but I’d assume they’re programmed to watch the price of a given object on a given website or group of sites, and if the price falls past a certain point (or an out-of stock item comes back in stock) they trigger a purchase of that item. They’ve already been programmed with the request information to execute a purchase, so it’s a simple matter of sending that request. They don’t have to type any information in (or rather, the information has been typed in in advance), so sending the order is a matter of milliseconds.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Twitch streamers use bots all time. mIRC is an IRC client (Internet Relay Chat) and can be used to make a simple chat bot. I use basic HTML and jquery in a web browser to connect to my stream data. Each site that has APIs has their own rules and ways to connect, but they all run off the basic principle of connecting to a database to check data. If you have a specific website you want a bot to talk to look up the site name and API and there’s usually some info.

Common sites with API are Twitch, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Youtube and Patreon.