Twitter Automation using Selenium Python

05 Oct, 2021
If you are someone like me who considers Twitter to be far better than Instagram, then I might be having something for you. We all know gaining followers on twitter can be pretty tough but sometimes retweeting quality content can gain you, followers, too. Obviously, you are a busy person and you don’t have time to sit around on your phone or laptop to read and retweet content. Pretty boring task right? Let’s make our smart friend do it. This article revolves around how to automate twitter using selenium Python.
First, you will be needing Python. You download python from here. Now, let’s begin coding. First, create a folder named Twitter Automation and then change the directory to the newly created folder. Now, create a file named requirements.txt and add just this one line to it. 
selenium==3.141.0
Next, open up your terminal and type 
pip install -r requirements.txt
Next, you will need a chrome driver. You can download it from here. After the download is complete, move the downloaded driver to your newly created folder Twitter Automation. Now all the requirements are taken care of. Now let’s begin with the coding.Now, create a file called credentials.txt and add the following lines to it. 
email: {your twitter email}
password: {your twitter password}
Replace the email and password placeholder with your original credentials of twitter. I am using a text file. One could also use a .env file but here for simplicity I am using a .txt file.
Next, create another file called secrets.py and add the following lines of code to it.
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"""    Add your twitter handle's email and password    in the credentials.txt file.    This will be used to automate the login.""" def get_credentials() -> dict:    # dictionary for storing credentials    credentials = dict()    # reading the text file    # for credentials    with open('credentials.txt') as f:        # iterating over the lines        for line in f.readlines():            try:                # fetching email and password                key, value = line.split(": ")            except ValueError:                # raises error when email and password not supplied                print('Add your email and password in credentials file')                exit(0)            # removing trailing            # white space and new line            credentials[key] = value.rstrip(" \n")    # returning the dictionary containing the credentials    return credentials
I have added a detailed code explanation in the inline comments for better understanding. Now, let’s create the most important file, the one which does all the magic. Create a new file called twitterbot.py and add the following lines to it. 
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from selenium import webdriverfrom selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keysfrom selenium.webdriver import ActionChainsfrom selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options'''Uncomment the below line when running in linux'''# from pyvirtualdisplay import Displayimport time, os class Twitterbot:     def __init__(self, email, password):         """Constructor         Arguments:            email {string} -- registered twitter email            password {string} -- password for the twitter account        """         self.email = email        self.password = password        # initializing chrome options        chrome_options = Options()         # adding the path to the chrome driver and        # integrating chrome_options with the bot        self.bot = webdriver.Chrome(            executable_path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'chromedriver'),            options = chrome_options        )     def login(self):        """            Method for signing in the user            with the provided email and password.        """         bot = self.bot        # fetches the login page        bot.get('https://twitter.com / login')        # adjust the sleep time according to your internet speed        time.sleep(3)         email = bot.find_element_by_xpath(            '//*[@id ="react-root"]/div / div / div[2]/main / div / div / form / div / div[1]/label / div / div[2]/div / input'        )        password = bot.find_element_by_xpath(            '//*[@id ="react-root"]/div / div / div[2]/main / div / div / form / div / div[2]/label / div / div[2]/div / input'        )         # sends the email to the email input        email.send_keys(self.email)        # sends the password to the password input        password.send_keys(self.password)        # executes RETURN key action        password.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)         time.sleep(2)     def like_retweet(self, hashtag):         """        This function automatically retrieves        the tweets and then likes and retweets them         Arguments:            hashtag {string} -- twitter hashtag        """         bot = self.bot         # fetches the latest tweets with the provided hashtag        bot.get(            'https://twitter.com / search?q =% 23' + \            hashtag+'&src = typed_query&f = live'        )         time.sleep(3)         # using set so that only unique links        # are present and to avoid unnecessary repetition        links = set()         # obtaining the links of the tweets        for _ in range(100):            # executing javascript code            # to scroll the webpage            bot.execute_script(                'window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight)'            )             time.sleep(4)             # using list comprehension            # for adding all the tweets link to the set            # this particular piece of code might            # look very complicated but the only reason            # I opted for list comprehension because is            # lot faster than traditional loops            [                links.add(elem.get_attribute('href'))\                for elem in bot.find_elements_by_xpath("//a[@dir ='auto']")            ]         # traversing through the generated links        for link in links:            # opens individual links            bot.get(link)            time.sleep(4)             try:                # retweet button selector                bot.find_element_by_css_selector(                    '.css-18t94o4[data-testid ="retweet"]'                ).click()                # initializes action chain                actions = ActionChains(bot)                # sends RETURN key to retweet without comment                actions.send_keys(Keys.RETURN).perform()                 # like button selector                bot.find_element_by_css_selector(                    '.css-18t94o4[data-testid ="like"]'                ).click()                # adding higher sleep time to avoid                # getting detected as bot by twitter                time.sleep(10)            except:                time.sleep(2)         # fetches the main homepage        bot.get('https://twitter.com/')
Now, it’s time to code our driver script. To do that, create a file called main.py and add the following lines to it.
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import twitterbot as tbimport secrets, sys # fetches the hashtag from command line argumenthashtag = sys.argv[1]# fetches the credentials dictionary# using get_credentials functioncredentials = secrets.get_credentials()# initialize the bot with your credentialsbot = tb.Twitterbot(credentials['email'], credentials['password'])# logging inbot.login()# calling like_retweet functionbot.like_retweet(hashtag)
Now, we are done with the code. Let’s call our driver script by running the following command in your terminal. 
python main.py {hashtag}
Just in place of the hashtag placeholder replace it with any trending hashtag, for example, you can try 
python main.py python3
This will like and retweet 100 tweets with the hashtag python. You can check out how it would perform in the video below.So, there you have it. Go ahead and try it out and do not increase the number of tweets because twitter has a daily limit of tweets. 
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