WebBot is a flexible IRC bot written in C capable of extracting information from a custom list of websites, including searchable ones, using regular expression patterns. HTTP GET and POST methods supported as well as HTTP redirects.

WebBot is a flexible IRC bot written in C that is capable of extracting information from Web sites by using regular expression patterns. WebBot has full HTTP POST and GET support and will follow URL redirects. Some of the Web sites predefined in the included config file include google, everything2, yahoo weather and finance, babelfish, a dictionary, and a thesaurus.

a web-based robot program capable of performing certain automatic operations

a "dynamic object" on a Web page

a program that is a part of the web page and performs certain tasks as needed