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)
- …