Introduction to Botting?

Question

Does anyone out there had a good tutorial or introduction to the various forms of botting? This includes botting for video games and web pages (like spiders, botting, and web scraping). I am not looking for how to do anything malicious, this is purely educational, so please do not link to anything that teaches anything harmful to anyone.

Answer 1

Here is a good video and .NET class library(with good examples) for developing bots in Unreal Tournament. This is obviously geared toward developing bots for video games.

Answer 2

there's a difference between running a macro recording using something like autoit and having a bot scrape webpages and follow link like googlebot. You should be more specific.

Answer 3

Not a tutorial, but I can recommend the book Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers.