Bots

Bots


Bots may refer to any of the following:

  • Short for robots, bots are fictitious characters, programmed characters, or pieces of software designed to mimic characters or real players in a video game.

  • A bot may be programmed to perform tasks like scraping/aggregating metadata from websites, automatically updating a web page, or interacting with a chat room. Hopebot is an example of a bot used by Computer Hope.

  • In a MMORPG, a bot generally refers to a third-party application that controls a player's in-game character while they're not at their keyboard, or AFK. Their purpose is to gain experience or valuables through repetitive actions that are sometimes considered monotonous to a player.

  • A bot is another name to describe a spider that crawls Internet web pages and grabs the content or keywords contained on the page.

  • Shorthand for back on topic, BOT is commonly used in chat rooms and other text message communications. Below is an example of how this could be used.



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