Hi.


Lets start with the idea.

I have my application and a web browser in it.
I want the page click in on link once that have something write in it(it could be like 5 generated numbers) and then, it gets back and check if there's another to click and click and go on...

The link examples:

mydomain.com/link=53143
mydomain.com/link=12394
mydomain.com/link=00012

I want that the app click the first (53143) and wait some time, then, refresh the browser to see if there's another link, and if exists, click in another (12394).

This is possible?
Could you show me how to do it?
Thanks in advance.

It's possible, but if it's your domain, you should already know what pages exist, and if it's someone else's domain, I'd have to question the ethics before providing any guidance.

Well, I made an automated php script that generate pages with random numbers, that include some stuff.
And I want to know how to make want I want.

Make your PHP script write to a MySQL database when it generates a page with a random number? I'm sure you'll eventually see value in having logs anyway.

No, I don't know how to use databases, so it just generate pages.
I want to learn a bit more in using vb interaction with websites, so I'm asking it.

Will you help me or not?
You can beleive that's for personal use.

If you don't know how to use databases, how are you going to make use of the data you find polling all these phantom pages? You would have an easier time pulling your apache logs to see what pages are requested, or looking through awstats for the same data, then writing an app to poll your own site to figure out which pages might exist on it.

This sounds like either a content scraping mission, or an auto-form spam attack. I can't in good conscience have anything to do with either one of those.

The interest of this is to making an autosurfer application for A d b u x . o r g for example. But for my own site, that I and a friend of mine are developing.

From the web site:

AdBux for Advertisers One of the most valuable features of advertising with AdBux, the thing that sets us apart from mainstream advertising is that with AdBux, the consumers are looking for the advertisers and not the other way around. We have hundreds of thousands of consumers from over 200 countries that can be targeted by their interests, their location and their buying power. They are literally waiting for advertisers to pay them to look at stuff that they are already interested in! To check out our rates, testimonials and traffic patterns, click HERE.


AdBux for Affiliates
In the world of secular advertising, advertisers pay a medium to disperse their adverts in front of targeted and/or un-targeted people. The only connection that the advertisers have with potential consumers is interest. Using images, word play and offering the product/service at a cheaper price works in some or most instances, but what else can be added to entice the consumers to go with that particular advertiser? Our solution is a monetary incentive. Think of this: As a consumer, wouldn't it be nice to get paid to simply look at products/services/websites that interest you?

Advertisers will pay YOU up to $0.015 (1.5 cents) for every website you view! Additionally, you can maximize your earnings with our affiliate program where you can earn up to 150% of your referrals' direct click earnings and comissions on any AdBux service that your referrals purchase!

Not a very good deal for anyone but AdBux by the sound of it. At a cent and a half per site you visit, just waiting for the pages to download and render is going to limit what you can make, so people are going to blaze through without looking at the sites. Viewers are getting exploited, and advertisers aren't getting what they think they're paying for.

I wouldn't waste my time on a project built around this business model, if I were you.

But if you're absolutely determined, you need to learn a about sockets, http requests and responses, html parsing, and some type of scheduling mechanism. Probably multi-threading, too. Since this is a commercial project, I'd invest in a few books on your chosen language, and some time to get yourself up to speed.

I'm not doing anything against their TOS. Theres nothing explicited there. And we know most people open the ads, minimize the browser and just do their stuff.
So, I just want that somebody help me.
I know Visual Basic but I dont know works with that features that you mentioned.

Where should I get help?

Well ... what version of Visual Basic do you have? I'd start by heading down to the neighborhood library and borrowing a couple of books on VB, specific to your version.

You can take free online classes at MIT, at least read all the materials in pdf and html format.

For specific questions about how to use a class or one of its methods, you can go to MSDN or the help files in your IDE or 'integrated development environment.'

But the bottom line is you're going to profit from selling robot clicks, which is your own business, but you need to build the robot. Nobody here is going to write the couple hundred lines of code you need for you. You need to understand VB well enough to know how to structure your application, and then you need to learn how to connect to the network using VB. Getting the pages from the server will be the easy part.

Personally, I don't care whether you violate their terms of service or not. Although I'd be shocked if it was that bad a deal for advertisers that they don't care about robo-clicks. Considering how low they pay their audience, I can't blame you for wanting to "work smarter, not harder." But that means you need to actually hit the books, and learn the concepts, then the implementations for your particular version of VB to bring your 'bot to life.

Basically, what you want to do is build a bot that you can set up to automatically browse through these online adverts from a pay-to-surf company?

Originally Posted by XRS

I'm not doing anything against their TOS. Theres nothing explicited there.

After looking in their TOS, I found this:

If you are found to be offering or using any unauthorized third party software or services used to “auto-click”, “auto-surf”, “ad-alert”, or circumvent or defraud the AdBux system in any way, your account will be terminated immediately.

Auto-surfing in your way is defeating the whole object of Adbux - personally it's a waste of time and money anyway and you'd have to be fairy stupid to advertise or use the program, but it's still abusing their system. More importantly however, it is a breach of the terms of service you have to agree to when you sign up, and you are therefore breaking the law by doing this.

Thanks very much! You've given me wonderful content for my my latest blog post, called Spam Pie with C.R.E.A.M.