How do I get started writing bots for Quora?
Firstly, Quora has no official API to make doing this straightforward. Furthermore, automation is currently against Quora Terms of Service. At this point, making bots for Quora would qualify as hacking, and be considered spamming.
That said, there is a category of tools for Web testing called Browser Automation (see List of web testing tools), basically involving Macros (aka Web Macros), which may be used to help automate interactive Web scraping.
See also my Quora answers to:
- Are there any Meta-Assistant bots that utilize or manage multiple assistants with different capabilities?
- Do you know any tools that use a crawler which simulates user behavior to test applications?
- How do I create a slack bot to do REST operations on a normal website?
- HOW can a system detect questions on Quora and auto-answer them?