watbot

Farhan told me to write a 4chan bot. I think he may have been joking, but I took his advice and started on it. Sadly the only language that I am good at is Visual Basic, so I’m writing it in that. Still reading The Art of Computer Programming, which is awesome.

Currently the program does the following:

• Loads page 1 of /b/ and then gets the number of every thread.
• Gets the first post of every thread and lets you view them by clicking one of the thread numbers in a listbox (there’s probably a better way to do this but I haven’t found it/ am too lazy to do it).
• Lets you search all of the loaded posts.
• Option to download all images in the first post of each thread.
• Refreshes its post database every 60 seconds.
• Displays number of replies to thread.
• Lets you post in whichever thread you choose.
• Has a button which enables the “bot” which basicaly just searches the first posts of the threads for any of a set of copypastas which I have saved within the program. It then responds to these threads with “wat”.

I know searching for something and then posting “wat” isn’t exactly a bot, but this is the basics. I’m going to try to make it as intelligent as I can in Visual Basic. Hopefully when I go to university I’ll learn how to do proper things, and then just write the ultimate fail program