Building a Bot in java [closed]

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I simply want to create an Bot that can run (preferably) on a web-server, and simply 'clicks' on an object of a web page using java.

please refer me to some tutorials that can be of help to me

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HtmlUnit is a programmable web browser (in Java). See http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/gettingStarted.html.

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I think you can start from Apache Droids project. They have module for web crawling

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Since a "click" is basically just a machine requesting a resource, you could do something as simple as:

clickURL = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new URL(URLOrFilename).openStream()));

This will open the stream. I don't know if you have to actually read anything (e.g. BufferedReader.readLine()), or if you can immediately close the stream, but that'll do it. Wrap it in a main() method, and you're done.

You'll need to import the appropriate I/O Java libraries.