How to post images with custom Twitter bot, WITHOUT using Twitter API?

[INauCkeL]

I'm developing a Twitter bot using Selenium and C# without the Twitter API, aiming to post tweets with text and image URLs.

However, Twitter doesn't display an image preview when I paste the URL directly into the tweet.

My workaround — downloading the image and using the file open dialog — is cumbersome, and I didn't develop it yet.

Is there a more efficient method to ensure Twitter previews the image from the URL, or any alternative approach to automate image posting on Twitter through Selenium and C#?

 

[DrRoo]

I'm doing similar using a different approach. I'm building the whole scraper in js and running from the dev console. Once the feed is parsed I will save everything to a db, including image and video urls. Later I can download the images if I want. I have used Selenium before but find its getting harder to bypass x's bot detection.

 

[tuankg1028]

Seemly X does not display an image preview by URL, I tried it without the result...
You should download the image and pass it to the file open dialog

 

[goodbye tobey]

I tried selenium and it worked fine, however my bot gets detected whenever I use a proxy

 

[goodbye tobey]

I personally use tweepy, better and much easier than selenium, but it has a rate limit of 50 post requests per day.
if you don't need to tweet more than 50 times a day switching to tweepy is much much better.

 

[claracollins1]

To ensure Twitter displays image previews when posting through Selenium and C#, you
can upload the image directly through the Twitter interface instead of pasting the URL. This can
be automated by simulating a file upload action with Selenium, avoiding the need for manual
downloading and uploading.

 

[INauCkeL]

To ensure Twitter displays image previews when posting through Selenium and C#, you
can upload the image directly through the Twitter interface instead of pasting the URL. This can
be automated by simulating a file upload action with Selenium, avoiding the need for manual
downloading and uploading.

How can it be simulated?

 

[Deleted member 1197157]

I'm doing similar using a different approach. I'm building the whole scraper in js and running from the dev console. Once the feed is parsed I will save everything to a db, including image and video urls. Later I can download the images if I want. I have used Selenium before but find its getting harder to bypass x's bot detection.

I find good Residential proxies work perfect, 4G surprisingly lead to more captcha and blocks (perhaps PC UA with Mobile proxy?)

Aside from that, no issues with Twitter using Puppeteer

 

[tylero]

This is a bad time for Twitter bots. Elon Musk has actively limited their reach.