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Need help with a script run by a cron job.

Hi, new to this forum and not sure if this is the right place to post. I'm new to cron jobs and scripts, and I need some help with a script to be used with a cron job. I already have a bot set up at a certain website address and need a script that the cron job will load every day that tells it to visit the website with the bot set up. Any help is very appreciated.
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Generally you can use "curl" or "wget" to simply visit websites. If you cannot install these, it's possible to use a simple script implemented in tcl, perl or python. If you want your job to run twice a day, pick a set of hours. Here, I chose 10 minutes after 6am and 7pm. Use "crontab -e" to edit the cron file and insert the following line.

10 6,19 * * * wget --spider -nv http://my.url.com/cgi-bin/mybot >/dev/null

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