Automating Actions On An App?

[lalgsw]

Hey!

Looking to do some automatic actions in an app only service. (auto-follow, unfollow, mass like, etc.)

I've written scripts for this in javascript for websites before. I've done some really basic stuff with click recording by using BlueStacks on a windows computer and doing some repetitive clicking patterns.

I'm now on a Mac. Any suggestions on how to best approach it? The apps I'm looking at don't have a public API.

Or is BlueStacks + auto-clicking the best option?

 

[lalgsw]

bump any thoughts here? otherwise will just use an emulator and clicker

 

[CodesJ]

Does the app have an API?

 

[lalgsw]

Does the app have an API?

not a public one

 

[CodesJ]

If it's a web app you might be able to use selenium web driver. If we don't have a public API we're looking at having to script some keyboard or mouse movements on top the their GUI

 

[lalgsw]

If it's a web app you might be able to use selenium web driver. If we don't have a public API we're looking at having to script some keyboard or mouse movements on top the their GUI

yeah no web product otherwise i'd use seleneium. any suggestions on the clicking on top of GUI?

 

[dami3n]

Are we talking about phone apps? Because i didn't think you could do automation due to the API restrictions. I guess if you thought long and hard about it and spent a ton of time writing code for the app to manually go to sites and like/follow based on search terms it might work but it would need to run in a web browser and be logged in hence why people make desktop apps. API is the issue here and a lot of social platforms restrict how many requests you can have before you app is reviewed.

 

[CodesJ]

You can find any Mouse recording software online and build a sequence relative to your screen size.
You can leverage AppleScript on your Mac and create a sequence of keypresses to do the process which may be more technical but could work.
What program is it?

 

[TheEvilGenius]

What kind of app are we talking about?