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I am starting a topic for sports events tips and instead of mannually posting the tip, I would like to automatically post on my topic as soon as I receive it- the more time pass the less valuable is the tip, so if I can share it quickly it's better.

I know this forum has no api however I would like to know if there is any way to post stuff automatically (not spam!)

Write a bot that sends the proper HTTP Post requests to the forum in order to post.

Advertising keeps the boards alive. Bots will diminish the value of the viewing. Also, if the same topic appears on numerous boards, the unique character of the forum will be lost. Will you be visiting the thread after it has been started to see what members think of the topic?

What kind of stuff will be that, will you put them in a notepad file or how do you think. I can make a bot for you but need more details to know if I'm able to finish it.

This is what I am looking for. I know how to scrape html and shit but don't know how to post comments to forum since it requires many parameters, cookies, etc

How do I need to post on this specific forum? If I tamper the data sent when i send this post I see a lot of random data, timestamps and numbers that I'm not sure how to automatize

The basic way is to create an HTTP Post with 4 parameters. Those are subject, message, topic, icon, and sc. Obviously subject is the title of the thread, message is what you want to post, topic is the topic id, icon is the icon, and sc is a secret which you have to scrape from reply page.

If you look at the source for the reply page, you will see a form. The action of that form is the URL you want to send the post to. Then there is a hidden input with the name topic. The value of that is the topic. Lastly there is a hidden input named sc. The value of that is sc. Just put all that in the post request and it should post.

I made a Bitcointalk Android app a while back. You can reference its posting code if you need it. It should be relatively self-explanatory. The link to that specific posting code is here: https://github.com/achow101/BitcointalkForum/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/achow101/bitcointalkforum/fragments/ReplyFragment.java#L406

Many thanks!
I will get deeper on that link later today and contact you if needed.

Any idea why this isn't working?

https://i.imgur.com/4YnRFtE.png

Check your cookies.

what exactly should I do about the cookies? shouldn't "sc" be enought to identify the user?

The cookie will give you authentication to post. Since I see that you are using Postman, you can get the postman interceptor and do a test post to see what goes into the post. Then just copy some of that data over like the cookie and some other stuff and you will see what you need to have in order to post.

Edit: The cookies go in headers and the actual data goes into the body, not as parameters.

Thank you so much for saving me a couple of hours!

Just one more question, I used interceptor as you sugested and it grabbed the cookies from current browser, however I'm not sure how to send mannually the cookie param from another browser for example

Do you mean set the cookie in another browser? If so, I don't quite know how that works.

With the cookies, the only one that matters is PHPSESSID. You only need the value of that cookie in order to interact with the website as a logged in user.

Well it shouldn't work without cookies because you aren't authenticated (but I guess it does anyways). Anyways, you should delete your test posts to keep the spam down.

Edit: I stand corrected. You don't need cookies to post, just the sc which I suppose does the authentication for you.

They are required! Im trying to send them as header or something, if I dont use interceptor, only the sc the post doens't go

Interesting. It just worked for me. Maybe it is because I am currently logged in. I will try clearing my cookies and logging and then trying again.

Edit: So you actually do need cookies. I think postman was taking the cookies from chrome which was why it was working for me.

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To send the cookies as a header, in the headers tab, in the first box labeled Header, type:
In the second box labeled Value type:
where <value> is the value of the cookie. You get this from either interceptor or in settings. In the settings, if you scroll down to Privacy and click on Content Settings... Then under cookies and click on All Cookies and Site Data. In the search box in the next window, type "bitcointalk". Click on "bitcointalk.org" then on the "PHPSESSID" button. The random string next to Content: is the value that you put in for PHPSESSID in the Cookie in the header.

Yes, may be that!

Postman doesn't allow (you need interceptor to mess with cookies) but i think that for raw html requests it's possible to send cookies this way: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3467114/how-are-cookies-passed-in-the-http-protocol

are you still trying?

Should be fairly easy to write

This is not good idea! Soon we will have such a mess around here and this will be forbidden in no time.
So if you have spare time create something useful.
You won't get money from signatures via this way, they have certain rules, post must be a good quality. l doubt you can create smart bot, someone will notice irregularity, do not even bother yourself with this!