Automating 5 Bots in 5 Days to Spread Positivity

Eddie Xu
12 min readJun 25, 2020

Part 1: The TLDR

Using Python’s Selenium/Chromedriver+PyTesseract, I built 5 bots in 5 days on 5 different platforms in order to spread positivity and good vibes. Check out the Demos below!

Day 1: Tinder-Bot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAk1ycmsU3k.

This bot signs into your Tinder account via the phone number option (it does this using PyTesseract to parse through the unique 6-digit SMS code Tinder sends to your phone to log in). It then “swipes right” on everyone and sends wholesome messages to all matches.

Day 2: YouTube-Bot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZJ5SsHu-IY.

This bot signs into your YouTube account, goes to a channel of your choice, and “likes” every single video on that channel.

Day 3: Instagram-Bot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oBcrjPZbt8.

This bot signs into your Instagram account, goes to someone’s profile, likes all of their posts, and comments kind, unique messages under every post.

Day 4: LinkedIn-Bot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=08itg1twtD0&t=16s.

This bot logs into your LinkedIn account, posts on your wall, likes a certain number of posts on your feed, searches up a list of recruiters from your company, and sends them personalized, supportive…

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Eddie Xu

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