Monday, November 9, 2009

UBot - What Is It?

UBot is a bot development environment for creating web based bots. With UBot you can basically script anything you can do in your web browser. This allows you to automate boring and repetitive tasks that you are probably tired of doing yourself, like account creation, link building, page scraping, and more. Instead of purchasing programs like Bookmarking Demon or SENuke, you can build your own bots that can do these same tasks yourself.

UBot uses what it calls the Visual Scripting Language (VSL). This is a graphical based language where you basically put your scripts together by pointing and clicking. There's no complex programming language syntax to learn which makes things easy for people to pick up. Just watch the excellent training videos and you should be good to go. Also, when you purchase UBot, you get access to the forums which contains a wealth of information and allows you to ask any questions that you have.

Unlike other automation tools, UBot is very powerful in that it supports all the essential flow control elements. Things like branching and looping are very easy to implement with it. Since web sites are always changing, having these constructs available allows you to create robust and flexible bots. It's also a tool creating specifically for making bots, so you have built in functions for common tasks like dealing with captchas, proxies, and scraping pages.

If you are interesting in automating any mundane web tasks, then definitely give UBot a look. It is easy enough to pick up and its a very powerful program which only looks to get better in the future.