Years ago on the old battle.net people ran chat bots like Ripple ChatBot or StealthBot. The bot would sit in a battle.net channel and you could type the command ".games" and it would give you list of all public games currently avalible to join regardless to their level. This was extreamly helpful for finding public games to join. I'm looking for that same functionaly on the new Global Battle.net. Does anybody know how to make this happen?

I tried getting the old Ripple ChatBot to work but it gets an error upon connection about unable to find the local hash files. I've tried everything I could think of with trying different hash files and verifying their location. Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated.

i was just researching this myself. doesn't look like it's possible.

If it was done once, it could be done again. I highly doubt Blizzard put much effort into blocking this. However, those bots were always officially condemned. Blizzard didn't like people running custom programs that logged on through the game's proprietary communication protocol, even though the condoned "chat gateway" protocol was crippled in comparison. Even before they began restricting channel availability based on connection type, there were many things that the game's proprietary protocol could do (such as listing open games) that the chat gateway protocol could not do.