Personal Chat Bot
Yahoo Messenger Bot
Creation of a Yahoo Messenger Bot which automated a variety of fun tasks such as
Talk to random people
Dynamic sync data to MYSQL database
Different levels of access
Generate and send ascii art
Generate google URL’s
Google search
Work in progress Trivia (play against the bot)
Technological Complexity
The technological complexity for building a Yahoo Chatbot was more difficult than say a IRC Chat Bot. Because of the fact that the Yahoo Messenger system was closed source and a great deal of reverse engineering was needed. A few libraries existed, mostly in C or Java