nitinkgp23 / bdaybot

A bot to automatically comment thank you on all your birthday posts.

bdaybot

This is a bot that will like and comment 'Thank you' on all the birthday posts posted on your timeline. It uses Selenium to automate facebook login and successively locating the birthday posts using web scrapping. The project is under heavy development.

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This could have required no use of Selenium, and could have been done by using Facebook's Graph API, but only till the previous version. In the current version, API doesnt give access to the bdday posts individually. Instead, it groups all the 150 posts, say, and makes it a 1 story, with one story-id. There are no indvidual post-ids to access them.

TODO:

• Automate facebook login
• Locate Bdday posts from the user's wall, iterate over them, like and comment.
• Take the username and password during the process.
• Convert above into an extension or a web-app
• Launch it as an .exe file for windows

Dependencies:

Install all the dependencies using pip install -r requirements.txt before using the script.

Usage:

Contribution guidelines:

• Push to master.

Never push from master. Try creating a new branch on your local and push from the said branch.

Any suggestions or contributions are welcome!

Language:

• JAVA ( Class can be found in folder bdaybot ).
• Python3 ( firefox.py is in Python 3 ).

How to

firefox.py is the only updated file here, that can successfully do the required job. Do git clone cd bdaybot python3 firefox.py You need to install selenium package first. Download the latest geckodriver and place it in PATH.

bdaybot's Issues

Infinite loop in case of 2 groups of posts

Look into the error. Cannot say the exact reason of this happening, but most probably, this is happening because trying to reveal one group of posts hides the other group and trying to reveal the second group hides the first.

why can't we use chrome webdriver

chrome browser is much faster and robust than firefox

Add requirements file

Populate the file with requirements

why are we not using graph api for liking and commenting?

Add suitable tests for the code

Problem in using firefox webdriver

When the firefox webdriver is called, the following exception is raised:
'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.

Make the whole code Python3 consistent

Check for errors if any, in both chrome.py and firefox.py

Take the username and password during the process

I can do this but at first tell me how this project should be used? I mean how you want to run your webdriver scripts. Should I clone this and enter bdaybot/bdaybot and then

python chromedriver.py [email protected] --password=topSecret

or usage idea is different?

Use random comments

Make a list of random Thank you comments , and while commenting, choose randomly from the list. Same comment on all the post won't look good.

Use regex for identifying birthday posts

This will be more efficient in handling the birthday posts. Make a stricter check on identifying which are birthday posts and which are not.

not possible to extract comment box element

it is not feasible to extract the comment box element using selenium as it voilates facebook security protocols

Add contributors in contributors.md

password field is left empty

sending return key before entering password fires login without password.

Check whether profile is already logged in

If profile is already logged in, directly go to the profile section.

All posts are not liked

The posts under "See 5 more posts" do not get liked.

Entry point not found error while running exe file in a different system