Is there a way to "randomize" the sleep/sleep-request function?

[jojo2833432]

Hello, I have been having some of my twitter accounts suspended even with -sleep 3-10 and -sleep-request 3-10 include within my command. Even with an account that I "tried" to act human on (Actually using twitter.) got suspended as well. However I'm not sure if this method works.

[mikf]

--sleep 3-10 is already randomized. It chooses a random number of seconds (between 3 and 10) each time it sleeps (check --verbose output).

--sleep and --sleep-request alone are not enough to keep Twitter from suspending your account it seems, but I also can't tell you what is. Maybe using a more up-to-date User-Agent helps, maybe using the same User-Agent as the browser you got your cookies from if you're not using username & password login does something.

[jojo2833432]

Wait? so I'd just put. "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/123.45 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/123.54", into my config file right? and how would I "constantly" update this? Just copy and paste this from my developer console from chrome every once and awhile?

[Hrxn]

Not sure if you just meant this as an example, but [..] Chrome/123.0.0.0 [..] is not recent anymore, Chrome stable is 127.0.0.0 now.

But yes, you'd need to update that manually. It could only be "enhanced" with reading a user-agent string from your environment variables or something like that - but then you would still need to make sure that your environment variables are updated correctly.

Just copy and paste this from my developer console from chrome every once and awhile?

So, yes. But it's really not a big deal, the cycle is once every 6-8 weeks.

[mikf]

and how would I "constantly" update this?

You could give "user-agent": "browser" a try. This will use the User-Agent string of your default browser (extractor.user-agent).

And absolutely no guarantees that sending the "correct" User-Agent does anything, but it's hopefully better than nothing.

[jojo2833432]

Ok, So I have it like this on the very top of my .conf file:

`{

 "extractor":
    {

        "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
        "base-directory": "./",
        "deviantart":`

Again this is just a snippet, but this is how I'd apply it right?

[mikf]

Yes.

[jojo2833432]

thanks!