Forum:Making a Bot

I would like to make a bot on Monster Hunter Fanon Wikia. The bot's name, I imagine, will be MHFanonWikiBot, and I want it to do the following......


 * Place categories on pages with specific keywords and key phrases


 * remove out-of-place ? characters in the Editor


 * Warn people about vandalism and the like

I don't know exactly WHAT the program is for running this, but I need it and anything else you can tell me to help me. Please help!!! Ceadeus Slayer  06:02, November 23, 2012 (UTC)


 * There are programs that are bots, you can download them online. The only ones that I know are Auto Wiki Browser and Pywikipediabot.


 * Alrighty then, I got the AWB downloaded. Now what?-- Ceadeus Slayer  17:45, November 23, 2012 (UTC)
 * See this for a user manual to help you finish tasks using AutoWikiBrowser. -- Plasma  ( Talk ) 18:01, November 23, 2012 (UTC)

Hm, I am still confused...oh well... Ceadeus Slayer  19:43, November 23, 2012 (UTC)

I've had AWB downloaded for awhile now, but I can't get it to work with Wikia (only Wikipedia). Can someone tell me how to log it into a Wikia account? http://images.wikia.com/central/images/a/ac/Lachlan5963.png   20:40, November 23, 2012 (UTC)


 * I found out how. Go to Options>Preferences>Projects>Wikia>URL of Wikia Wiki. Ceadeus  Slayer  22:54, November 23, 2012 (UTC)

Well, I'm not sure Monster Hunter Fanon is big enough to need a bot per se, but I digress.
 * Place categories on pages with specific keywords and key phrases
 * What you'd do (I think, dun kill me if I goof up somewhere) is under Make List, set the Source to "Wiki search (text)" and in the box write whatever keyword you need categorized. Like if you needed every page with the word "calculus" to go into the category "Pages about calculus", you'd type calculus into the box. Then go to the More tab, and under "Categories", choose to "Add category" and then type "Pages about calculus" into the box. Then go to the start tab, set the default summary to something like "categorizing", and click Start. After that, a new tab will appear called Bots. Turn on Auto-Save and then Start again.
 * remove out-of-place ? characters in the Editor
 * I don't know what you mean, sorry.
 * Warn people about vandalism and the like
 * AWB can't do that as far as I know.

Hope I helped. Cat (meow ∙ hunt) 02:27, November 24, 2012 (UTC)