How to add delay between actions.

[rl421403]

This is my script.

from TwitterFollowBot import TwitterBot

my_bot = TwitterBot("config.txt")

my_bot.auto_follow("wordpress", count=10)

This makes me follow 10 users. And I want to add delay between these follow actions or any other action.

How can I add that delay.

EDIT:

And what are these FOLLOW_BACKOFF_MIN_SECONDS:10 & FOLLOW_BACKOFF_MAX_SECONDS:60. What exactly both of these do?

[rhiever]

FOLLOW_BACKOFF_MIN_SECONDS:10 and FOLLOW_BACKOFF_MAX_SECONDS:60 in the config.txt tell the bot to wait a random amount of seconds in between those two numbers between every follow, fav, etc. action. That basically implements the delay you're looking for.

[rl421403]

That's nice to know but I don't think it is working properly. Because when I tried above script, it added followers instantly without even waiting for 10-60 seconds. Command took only like less then 1 sec.

I have been using default options in my config file.

FOLLOW_BACKOFF_MIN_SECONDS:10
FOLLOW_BACKOFF_MAX_SECONDS:60

I have Python 3 installed on Ubuntu server.

[rhiever]

That's really strange. I swear the latest version on PyPi has that functionality.

I just did a re-upload to PyPi with v2.0.2. Please try a pip --upgrade and let me know if the wait functionality works now. It's working fine on my server.

[rl421403]

That could be the issue. I have Python 3.4.0 installed and pip 1.5.4. I tried upgrading pip but it's keep installing 1.5.4.

and pip --upgrade returns invalid command.

[rhiever]

Try: pip install --upgrade TwitterFollowBot

[rl421403]

Oh you mean upgrade TwitterFollowBot. I thought you are asking to upgrade about pip. Anyway, I upgraded TwitterFollowBot and strange thing happened. it started adding random delay.

Earlier when I executed my script, I got output like...

Followed 98918919
Followed 29382938
Followed 29389238

And it took less then a minute to follow 3 accounts but now it's seems to be working. This is the output I got.

Choosing time between 10 and 60 - waiting 11 seconds before action
Followed 98918919
Choosing time between 10 and 60 - waiting 44 seconds before action
Followed 29382938
Choosing time between 10 and 60 - waiting 53 seconds before action
Followed 29389238

Yep.. It's working great now. Thanks for your help. Really nice script.

[rhiever]

Great!

You can control the range of that delay with the FOLLOW_BACKOFF_MIN_SECONDS and FOLLOW_BACKOFF_MAX_SECONDS in your config.txt too.

If you want to remove the delay entirely, then simply remove those two entries in your config.txt.