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Recommendation on language for web interface

Hi all,

I'm going to write a program to play this silly online game that I waste too much of my time with, so I'm here looking for advice.

Which language do you recommend I use? The game is entirely html / css based with all of the commands being issued to the server through html.

I was considering c# as I figured there would be some type of built in classes dedicated to parsing htmls, opening pages, etc, but I can't find it anywhere. If i'm going to write the classes myself I'd prefer to stay away from the language, but i'm looking for simplicity.

Thanks.

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There are some HTML parsing libraries in some languages but really it's trivially easy to write your own sufficiently good algorithm to play the game.

Edit:
One easy way to do it might be Greasemonkey (or some old version of Greasemonkey if they've locked down the security a bit). This is what I did for some infamous stunt I pulled.

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