Explore the creation of Twitter bots in this comprehensive 37-minute tutorial video. Learn how to develop a simple retweeting bot that searches for posts containing specific keywords and automatically retweets them with a quoted message. Gain insights into web automation using Selenium, HTML basics, and Jupyter Notebook. Discover techniques for navigating Twitter's interface, handling exceptions, and implementing features like scrolling and random message selection. While focusing on ethical practices, the video also discusses the responsible use of bot-making knowledge and concludes with a reflection on the ethics of bot creation.
How Twitter Bots Are Made - The Ultimate Guide for Beginners
Overview
Syllabus
- intro
- what is a bot?
- dummy account
- web driver set up
- Selenium set up
- Jupyter Notebook set up
- initialize web driver object
- fix Session Not Created Exception
- quick introduction to HTML 1 sentence
- find element by tag name
- Developer Tools and how to use it
- find elements by XPATH
- why Jupyter Notebook is the best editor for automation
- continue log in automation
- search keyword shortcut
- retweet automation
- quote tweet automation
- find elements that contain certain data
- pause code execution with time.sleep
- combine all notebook cells and review code
- BrightData
- retweet multiple tweets at once
- scroll to the bottom of the page to fetch a new batch of tweets
- randomly select a quote message from a pre-defined list
- fix Element Click Intercepted Exception
- run bot with full automation
- your thoughts on the ethics of bot making
- thanks for watching! :
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