Automation from a virtual machine/chromedriver

Aristide

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I am a software developer and I write myself my own tools for automation. I am trying to emulate the user as much as possible. Not calling directly the api but using a web browser to navigate the target site, clicking the links, pushing buttons, I am thinking even to make the mouse move linke an human do.

Does somebody do that or is not worth it?

I wrote some simple scripts to automate tweet posting or facebook group invite/scraping with chromedriver.

Have somebody experience of bot detection of chromedriver and/or on virtual machines?

If I run a bot on aws or azure, the ip is identifiable as coming from a server farm; does the majors social network consider this a sign of malicious users?

If I run a bot on a VM on my own computer, is there any way I should aware of, for a website to identify my program as a bot?
 
I would have a look at puppeteer with the puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth plugin - that is about as close as you can get to appearing to be a real user.

If you are running your bot on AWS or Azure then you're right that it's possible to see that this is coming from a server farm. You can get around it by using proxies - residential proxies are the hardest to detect.
 
I am a software developer and I write myself my own tools for automation. I am trying to emulate the user as much as possible. Not calling directly the api but using a web browser to navigate the target site, clicking the links, pushing buttons, I am thinking even to make the mouse move linke an human do.

Does somebody do that or is not worth it?

I wrote some simple scripts to automate tweet posting or facebook group invite/scraping with chromedriver.

Have somebody experience of bot detection of chromedriver and/or on virtual machines?

If I run a bot on aws or azure, the ip is identifiable as coming from a server farm; does the majors social network consider this a sign of malicious users?

If I run a bot on a VM on my own computer, is there any way I should aware of, for a website to identify my program as a bot?

Spoof your useragent, webrtc and use proxies, if u are running 10+ accounts in the same social media u really don’t want to get all your accounts linked to the same ip or ua
 
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