I'm a longtime lurker, but I finally got around to creating an account. There seems to be a real need for a bot to control and keep track of bidding statuses in the Auction forum. I am a software developer by day and have a degree in Computer Science, so I thought I'd give this a shot.
Development will be done primarily in C#, as that is what I'm most proficient in. There will be a relatively simple SQL backend to track active auctions and bids. I'll probably start this project by creating a screen scraping library to login, post replies, and check/send PMs; unless there's an API for this forum that I am unaware of.
I'll be using this thread for testing purposes during development. I have a pretty good idea about how everything is going to work, but feel free to post suggestions regarding implementation and user-interaction. I would have posted in the "Meta" subforum, but my newbie state restricts that.
And of course, if you feel so inclined to send a tip to encourage development, I would not object
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