Thread: Building bots in VB.NET..httpwebrequest or webbrowser?

What's a better route to learn when starting out building bots in VB.NET?

I can currently build basic bots that can navigate to a website, enter text into textboxes, and press buttons, etc but it seems somewhat slow using the webbrowser.

I'm looking to build some professional type bots that can use multi threads and move lightening fast when processing the data.

I'm at a cross roads right now because I can dive into either learning everything about webbrowser options or httpwebrequest options.

Of course I will be learning them both in time but which would be the better route to learn to use when building great little bots?

Thanks

can u built some bots for me

Originally Posted by simpleonlinetest

What's a better route to learn when starting out building bots in VB.NET?

I can currently build basic bots that can navigate to a website, enter text into textboxes, and press buttons, etc but it seems somewhat slow using the webbrowser.

I'm looking to build some professional type bots that can use multi threads and move lightening fast when processing the data.

I'm at a cross roads right now because I can dive into either learning everything about webbrowser options or httpwebrequest options.

Of course I will be learning them both in time but which would be the better route to learn to use when building great little bots?

Thanks

httpwebrequest is better ,, It has much flexibility ,, U can play long with it

i heard hhtpwebrequest is better for making good web bots !
but is there any kind of ebook or tutorial to learn it ?

httpwebrequest is more flexible than webbrowser control... you have more control over it but it takes a while to learn

oh ya for the book about building bots try "HTTP Programming Recipes for C# Bots"
Google its rapidshare download

HTTPWEBREQUEST is much better because instead of junk like images it just gets what you need. This makes it allot faster and more reliable. But the only bad thing is it takes much longer to code than a webbrowser does and at first it's hard to learn.

The WEBBROWSER is slow but it still gets the job done, it is also very easy to learn and to develope applications with. But in the long term HTTPWEBREQUESTS will be much better.

If you are going to make bots on heavy ajax based sites you should use the webbrowser control if you are new on it. For the rest i would say skip httpwebrequest and learn socket right away.

You can download "HTTP Programming Recipes for C# Bots" plus "php+curl" for web application bots

http://www.mediafire.com/?oajmtmdevin

For me, I use webbrowser to simple things like when I made coupon bruteforcer to one site where u could get free facebook likes etc :P I dont remember site name anymore, It was just one browser, took some time ._.

So, browser is good to simple bots that wont require much, but request it better for long term projects and supports better multithreading.