Less Obvious Botting Alternative to "Python & Selenium "

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Lazanon

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For the purpose of botting (acc-creation, activity, etc), I spent two good months learning Python and specializing in Selenium, only to find out that headless browsers are actually easily detected by all big social media platforms, lol! I'm not talking about suspicious behavior flagging either, apparently the geckodriver(also the others too) itself just lets the website know that it is automated, so most established websites just shadowban/ignore that automated account/activity. Oh well.

Is there a not-inherently-detectable automated browsing alternative to selenium? What programming language is used to create professional bots like "theaddmefastbot"? I'm willing to research and learn as many subjects as I need to for as long as it helps me reach my goal of creating the ultimate tumblr bot :D Just need someone to point in the right direction. Thanks!
 
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First thing first. Selenium always has some basic properties that can be easily spoofed to avoid detection. But my second best choice is to get something like pywinauto and start chrome from the command line.

You don’t want to use selenium with big sites, they can sniff you from a mile away when a noob is using a stock version of selenium.

Getting an undetectable Selenium is the easy part, but getting a browser that can pass all browser fingerprints is impossible or rather extremely hard. The most advanced browser fingerprint can detect if you are lying about your User-Agent and that’s basically enough to categorize you as bot traffic.
 
Up, still looking for help :)
 
Selenium is not a reliable option if you want to build a sophisticated undetectable bot. It was not designed for such purpose, and you will never get any help on how to use it to avoid being detected by modern fingerprint methods. From my experience, the best option right now is to invest your time into learning puppeteer and JavaScript.
 
From my experience, Selenium Webdriver is a tool for automating web application testing, and in particular to verify that they work as expected. It aims to provide a friendly API that's easy to explore and understand, easier to use than the Selenium-RC (1.0) API, which will help to make your tests easier to read and maintain.
 
Try Kantu...
Looks nice with OCR and OpenCV.
 
You could try open real browser and manipulate its interface using macros
 
Agilex85 said:
Selenium is not a reliable option if you want to build a sophisticated undetectable bot. It was not designed for such purpose, and you will never get any help on how to use it to avoid being detected by modern fingerprint methods. From my experience, the best option right now is to invest your time into learning puppeteer and JavaScript.
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The request module is not a joke have a look at instabot.py
 
Lazanon said:
For the purpose of botting (acc-creation, activity, etc), I spent two good months learning Python and specializing in Selenium, only to find out that headless browsers are actually easily detected by all big social media platforms, lol! I'm not talking about suspicious behavior flagging either, apparently the geckodriver(also the others too) itself just lets the website know that it is automated, so most established websites just shadowban/ignore that automated account/activity. Oh well.

Is there a not-inherently-detectable automated browsing alternative to selenium? What programming language is used to create professional bots like "theaddmefastbot"? I'm willing to research and learn as many subjects as I need to for as long as it helps me reach my goal of creating the ultimate tumblr bot :D Just need someone to point in the right direction. Thanks!
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I have some problem with selenium, I use selenium for pinterest.
 
The first answer was the correct one. There are some basic things you can do but getting by browser fingerprinting can be a pain. I think I've posted on a thread about this a while back.
 
Lazanon said:
For the purpose of botting (acc-creation, activity, etc), I spent two good months learning Python and specializing in Selenium, only to find out that headless browsers are actually easily detected by all big social media platforms, lol! I'm not talking about suspicious behavior flagging either, apparently the geckodriver(also the others too) itself just lets the website know that it is automated, so most established websites just shadowban/ignore that automated account/activity. Oh well.

Is there a not-inherently-detectable automated browsing alternative to selenium? What programming language is used to create professional bots like "theaddmefastbot"? I'm willing to research and learn as many subjects as I need to for as long as it helps me reach my goal of creating the ultimate tumblr bot :D Just need someone to point in the right direction. Thanks!
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Use chromedriver. There is things you can do in selenium to prevent being detected like modifying chromedriver exe, user agents, and disabling certain chrome options.
 
Agilex85 said:
Selenium is not a reliable option if you want to build a sophisticated undetectable bot. It was not designed for such purpose, and you will never get any help on how to use it to avoid being detected by modern fingerprint methods. From my experience, the best option right now is to invest your time into learning puppeteer and JavaScript.
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Why is Puppeteer better than Selenium in terms of not giving away you're botting?
 
Incogniton or MultiLoginApp have undetectable Selenium interfaces.
 
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