User blog comment:XxHighbreedpredatorxX/Bot help/@comment-1997905-20130213174313


 * 1) You don't need staff permission to run a bot, but you should get permission from the wiki community. You can ask staff for a bot flag at Special:Contact/general, which will hide your bot's edits so that they don't clog up the recent changes.
 * 2) AWB is a fairly easy to use bot for people who don't know much about code. Pywikipedia is a more code-oriented bot that offers better performance, but less hand-holding.
 * 3) You install a program on your computer, and then the program will do repetitive tasks you ask it to do, like deleting a large number of pages, or renaming a category.