Bot

About

A bot is just a fancy name for an application that:

• is running in the background.
• and performs some actions (ie is not waiting for the user but behave as a user).

Type

• Crawler Bot that are indexing your website
• Chatbot that guide and answers users (Slack, WebSite, …)
• BadBot that try to use your application for no good
• Onboarding Bot (for instance Slack Bot)
• Pull request Bot (for instance AnsiBot)
• …