Is every bot made with python and selenium

jeff1985

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im noticing more and more programmers are leaning on python and selenium for automation bots I’m wondering is that the best route or is it another alternative per day? Or does it depends on your skills set of lack thereof as a programmer?
 
Depends, many others like Java, some others .NET C#.
Others SaaS with PHP, along frameworks like Laravel.
There is a lot on the menu.
 
It is easier to learn opposed to C or JavaScript and best of all it is free.. Paid programs like ubot studio is easier to automate bot creation however to costs a bit to buy it.
 
Python is a very readable language, so it's much easier for someone to check some example source code and rewrite it for their own purposes. Selenium has a lot of clear documentation and there is a ton of source code that others have released to make bots. Selenium itself has libraries for all sorts of languages, like Java, C#, Ruby and JavaScript too, so it's not just Python. There are other libraries as well that offer solutions, but it's a solid library.
 
Depends, many others like Java, some others .NET C#.
Others SaaS with PHP, along frameworks like Laravel.
There is a lot on the menu.
So out of all that which one do u think is more suitable for bot that used residential proxies and fingerprinting at high level?
 
It is easier to learn opposed to C or JavaScript and best of all it is free.. Paid programs like ubot studio is easier to automate bot creation however to costs a bit to buy it.
I tried ubot in the past and yikes that didn’t work out too well... I just notice other programmers preach selenium and python so much
 
So out of all that which one do u think is more suitable for bot that used residential proxies and fingerprinting at high level?

You cannot completely evade fingerprinting if you use a browser. It's impossible, don't let others tell you it's possible because they are selling you a bunk solution. Fingerprinting does more than get your hardware and locale settings, they also can check whether you are using Selenium or the wrong User-Agent.

Say for example, you want to check whether you are using a real Chrome User-Agent, an advanced fingerprint will check for features only found inside a Chrome browser.

So if if you are using a Firefox browser with a Chrome User-Agent and you failed those fingerprint checks, they can sniff you out like that.
 
So out of all that which one do u think is more suitable for bot that used residential proxies and fingerprinting at high level?
I have to say Python + Selenium.
I already worked on a course on how to bot a network. Send me a PM.
 
Python is a very readable language, so it's much easier for someone to check some example source code and rewrite it for their own purposes. Selenium has a lot of clear documentation and there is a ton of source code that others have released to make bots. Selenium itself has libraries for all sorts of languages, like Java, C#, Ruby and JavaScript too, so it's not just Python. There are other libraries as well that offer solutions, but it's a solid library.
where is a good place to get examples and make your own bot?
 
I tried ubot in the past and yikes that didn’t work out too well... I just notice other programmers preach selenium and python so much
Ubot is awful, I agree. Python is all you need.
 
where is a good place to get examples and make your own bot?
I always default to GitHub. For example, if you search 'Selenium Instagram' in GitHub, then select your programming language on the left-hand side, 'Python' for me, it'll bring up 130 some odd results with either libraries to help like the awesome InstaPy library which is a Selenium-based Instagram bot. It takes some digging, so pay attention to how old the source code is, but for the most part the skies the limit.
 
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