Selenium/Twitter bots? still viable? What could the alternatives be if not?

Xhaki · Jul 16, 2018

Hi guys I am a programmer.

I just want to know if using Selenium for Twitter bot or instagram bot creation is still viable? are there any posts or tips I should follow to avoid detection? Should i use robot class to fake mouse and keyboard movements?

What could be an alternative if selenium sucks?

MrRandQm · Jul 16, 2018

Why would it not be viable? It's literally emulating a browser. Can't go wrong with that

Xhaki · Jul 16, 2018

@MrRandQm well I heard stories that they can detect the mouse clicks and keyboard push intervals now and see if a that's a real human or not so I was asking if twitter or instagram (two of the big giants) implemented something like this, nullifying selenium.

Thank you for your reply though

MrRandQm · Jul 16, 2018

As far as I know they don't do that, if they did you can indeed fake it.

Xhaki · Jul 16, 2018

MrRandQm said:
As far as I know they don't do that, if they did you can indeed fake it.

Yeah. With java/python robot class right and fake mouse and keyboard movements right? Or are there any better tools?

MrRandQm · Jul 16, 2018

Xhaki said:
Yeah. With java/python robot class right and fake mouse and keyboard movements right? Or are there any better tools?

It's a long time since I used selenium, I use requests. But I mean to remember that selenium can provide the coordinates of the web page, and then indeed use the robot class to make the movements. (Java at least I don't know about python)

If you plan to go this way, do not just randomize movements and clicks as that might actually show more unnatural than nothing at all.
Case examples:
Enter username > Press TAB > enter password > press TAB > press enter (login)
Enter username > TAB > password > TAB > click on button in a straight line

People usually don't make weird random movements in direct cases such as registration and login but go straight for what they need.

ps. Selenium provides tabbing/enter key etc
pss. Since you're talking about twitter, and want to be safe from footprints, switch around between browser resolutions and do a few random queries to twitter before registering to add some cookies. I wont claim they check this but it doesn't hurt either.

Xhaki · Jul 16, 2018

MrRandQm said:
It's a long time since I used selenium, I use requests. But I mean to remember that selenium can provide the coordinates of the web page, and then indeed use the robot class to make the movements. (Java at least I don't know about python)

If you plan to go this way, do not just randomize movements and clicks as that might actually show more unnatural than nothing at all.
Case examples:
Enter username > Press TAB > enter password > press TAB > press enter (login)
Enter username > TAB > password > TAB > click on button in a straight line

People usually don't make weird random movements in direct cases such as registration and login but go straight for what they need.

ps. Selenium provides tabbing/enter key etc
pss. Since you're talking about twitter, and want to be safe from footprints, switch around between browser resolutions and do a few random queries to twitter before registering to add some cookies. I wont claim they check this but it doesn't hurt either.

Thank you for your responses you clarified a lot.

vrska87 · Jul 16, 2018

I using Zenno to emulate mouse movement and keystrokes.
I have two groups of accounts, with and without emulation
Twitter banning accounts in both groups

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