What's it called? [Programming Question]

[Slashdash]

I program in C++ but what are programs that work with the internet called?

I want to create a program which uses the internet.

Example: A program which updates all football/soccer scores it will gather it's data from a website and when the score updates so does the program.

What are these types of programs called?

Which programming language can you do this in?

[twiggystardust]

Well most programs are called applications, I don't see any reason this would be called anything else. You can do this in any programming language that you can access the internet: C++, Java, Python, there's a ton. But for your example, start by looking up documentation on Sockets. (By the way, a simple Google search would have solved this, the first result was actually from this site and where I got your answer from)

[Slashdash]

Thanks. I did use google and I didn't find anything.

[twiggystardust]

Really? I just looked up accessing the internet with C++.

[LB]

If you want to interact with websites and web APIs, you should check out libCURL.

[chrisname]

Slashdash wrote:

A program which updates all football/soccer scores it will gather it's data from a website and when the score updates so does the program.

Collecting data from a website is usually called "scraping".

[z05DSL3A]

or maybe you are referring to web APIs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_API