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Initial results of the bot's actions
Inspiration
A youtube video by Dev Ed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ovFudqFB0Q)
What it does
Likes and retweets Twitter posts (tweets) based on a keyword search
How I built it
Using GeckoDriver to work with Mozilla Firefox and Selenium to write scripts
Challenges I ran into
The Twitter DOM tree changed in the last year, using more Javascript to create it, so it was a challenge to find the appropriate divs that correspond to like and retweet buttons and interact with them
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
The correct like and retweet buttons are selected every time, so depending on the number of iterations and screen refreshing we select to do, all the tweets will be selected
What I learned
How to scrape web pages and interact with the DOM tree
What's next for Twitter Bot
Comments input, profile follows and make it work in Chrome too
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