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