Run a Script to Make Tasks Less Repetitive

An automation script (sometimes called a macro) is a small program that automate tasks using an application. A macro is a series of commands and actions that can be saved and run to perform a task. In the former case, macros are used to make tasks using an application less repetitive by automating those tasks that a client perform repeatedly. A macro for automating repetitive tasks, is also called an automation script.

To write a computer program that can perform tasks that's structurally repetitive, you must be a programmer. But I know that you don't want to spend time to be a programer (if your business is about online marketing,) and to spend money to buy an Internet bot, nor to employ a programmer to write a program for your needs. An automation software such as AutoIt (a freeware automation and BASIC-like scripting language) or AutoHotkey (an open-source macro-creation and automation software utility), can be used to produce utility software and automate common tasks. And the best way to get your own customized macro is by using this kind of software, and to study a little bit of the specific scripting language of your automation software, to write your own automation script!

But there are few things that you might need to know before creating automation scripts! Do not waste your time to create macros for malicious purposes, such to automate an attack on networked computers like denial-of-service attack, to commit click fraud, to any kind of spams and acts that will violate the Terms of Services (ToS) of your service' provider.

Automation scripts are useful if they are intended to use for making tasks less repetitive. For example, you have daily tasks to review the first articles from new users, while there are no items to review, you just keep refreshing the web page, the same thing over and over again until a new user posted his/her first article. An automation script is very useful for this opportunity, it can do the job for reloading the page that have no items to review, every after 10 seconds, while you are working on the other task, therefore, when you check the page back, there may be an item to review. But make sure that you do not create an automation to deceive, or you'll get penalized!

On our next articles, you will see how to install an automation software on your computer and how to create an automation script using it.