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jack-mil / bing-rewards

A script to automate daily Bing rewards points
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search-url config parameter ignored #38

Closed Netti93 closed 9 months ago

Netti93 commented 10 months ago

The script does not use the config value for search-url but just the hardcoded default URL value.

tobfromme commented 10 months ago

Agreed. I'm finding the rewards aren't occurring today, so I was playing with this parameter only to find the same thing.

jack-mil commented 10 months ago

oop, you are totally right. I added that to the config file, but never used it, so forgot to implement that feature in the code. I'll work on it soon™️ . Has bing changed recently that the old link is no longer working? I haven't used this personally in a while, so I don't know the current status

Netti93 commented 10 months ago

It seems like they require some query parameter that are only added when searched via search field because a search directly within the address bar without any (additional) params is not working while the same search within the search field does give you the points.

tobfromme commented 10 months ago

For me, I noticed the points haven't been appearing the past few days, and that Chrome, Chromium, and Edge all hang on Bing when using bing-rewards. When running any of these browsers manually, by hitting ESC after bing-rewards starts, I can get the points to work. I figured I would play with the URL to see if that's it, and that's when I discovered the config option wasn't used.

I'm not sure what's up with the bing points issue though. Seems like they are getting more intelligent at watching. Maybe a random timer would help (i.e. in the config set a min and max timer and then find a random point in between those).

tobfromme commented 10 months ago

@Netti93 are you on Linux or Windows? My points issue is occurring on Linux, which prompted me to try the search-url configuration parameter.

Netti93 commented 10 months ago

I'm on Windows and for me it started today.

crazydave48 commented 9 months ago

Just confirming that I'm having the same issue. The script still runs fine, just got getting any points for each search. I haven't noticed till today but I'm sure it's been happening for a bit now.

jungx098 commented 9 months ago

It looks like Bing now requires search queries to include FORM. If you don't get any points, try https://github.com/jack-mil/bing-rewards/pull/39.

crazydave48 commented 9 months ago

That worked! Thanks everyone who helped get this fixed!