The Ultimate Guide to Selenium Bots - Automating Twitter

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In this video we will explore the art of bot making for the purpose of understanding how it's being used against us 🤖🤖🤖 We will create a simple retweeting bot that searches for posts that contain a certain keyword like: "cat" or "dog" and then retweets selected posts with a quoted message. The code and the lesson-flow I will demonstrate does not contain any unethical practices: we use a single account and we automate it for harmless purposes. However the techniques you will learn can be applied on different use cases ☢️☢️ so PLEASE use this information responsibly!!! ☢️☢️ ----------------------------------------------------------------- ⭐ THANK YOU TO THE SPONSORS ⭐ ----------------------------------------------------------------- This video is brought to you by Bright Data, an innovative web platform that collects and structured web data so that you don't have to! ⭐⭐⭐ Check them out right now: https://brightdata.grsm.io/pythonsimplified ----------------------------------------------------------------- 🎬 RELATED TUTORIALS OF MINE 🎬 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ⭐ Anaconda Beginners Guide (Install Python): https://youtu.be/MUZtVEDKXsk ⭐ Simple Web App with Flask (HTML introduction): https://youtu.be/6plVs_ytIH8 ⭐ Advanced Web App with Flask (HTML introduction): https://youtu.be/v3CSQkPJtAc ⭐ Python For Loops for Beginners: https://youtu.be/dHANJ4l6fwA ----------------------------------------------------------------- ⏰ TIME STAMPS ⏰ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 00:00 - intro 00:52 - what is a bot? 02:25 - dummy account 03:25 - web driver set up 04:37 - Selenium set up 05:25 - Jupyter Notebook set up 06:17 - initialize web driver object 07:38 - fix Session Not Created Exception 09:24 - quick introduction to HTML (1 sentence) 09:47 - find element by tag name 11:04 - Developer Tools and how to use it 12:46 - find elements by XPATH 14:12 - why Jupyter Notebook is the best editor for automation 14:30 - continue log in automation 16:26 - search keyword shortcut 17:46 - retweet automation 19:23 - quote tweet automation 20:44 - find elements that contain certain data 24:24 - pause code execution with time.sleep() 25:22 - combine all notebook cells and review code 28:13 - BrightData 29:30 - retweet multiple tweets at once 30:50 - scroll to the bottom of the page (to fetch a new batch of tweets) 32:03 - randomly select a quote message from a pre-defined list 33:52 - fix Element Click Intercepted Exception 35:36 - run bot with full automation 36:14 - your thoughts on the ethics of bot making 37:07 - thanks for watching! :) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 🤖 COMPLETE CODE ON GITHUB 🤖 ----------------------------------------------------------------- https://github.com/MariyaSha/TwitterBot ----------------------------------------------------------------- 💻 IMPORT COMMANDS 💻 ----------------------------------------------------------------- from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🕸️ WEB DRIVERS FOR DIFFERENT BROWSERS 🕸️ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⭐ Chrome: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads ⭐ Firefox: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases ⭐ Edge: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/ -------------------------------------- 🤝 Connect with me 🤝 -------------------------------------- 🔗 Github: https://github.com/mariyasha 🔗 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/wgTTmsWmXA 🔗 LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/mariyasha888 🔗 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mariyasha888 🔗 Blog: https://www.pythonsimplified.org -------------------------------------------- 💳 Credits 💳 -------------------------------------------- ⭐ Beautiful animated graphics by: mixkit.co ⭐ Beautiful icons by: flaticon.com ⭐ Beautiful images by: https://www.freepik.com/