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robbiebarrat / twitter-contest-enterer

Twitter bot that mass-enters contests on twitters, and (mostly) avoids bot-detection accounts.
MIT License
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My bot keeps retweeting false contests #3

Closed PascalvanDongen closed 6 years ago

PascalvanDongen commented 6 years ago

My bot keeps retweeting contests from the user: @lvbroadcasting. If i block the user on twitter it keeps unblocking it. I also tried to add words to the bannedwords section in the twitterbot.py. I changed it to this: bannedwords = ["vote", "bot", "b0t", "lvbroadcasting" "Las", "Vegas", "TV"], but it didn't work. What do i need to change in the code to make it work? Thanks!

robbiebarrat commented 6 years ago

I just updated it and added this list called "bannedusers" - and put lvbroadcasting in it.

I know there are a ton of users like "botspotter", "b0tspotter", "sp0tbots", etc, so if you just put "bot" the bannedusers list, it'll take care of all of those. it'll stop retweeting any user that has that in their username.

PascalvanDongen commented 6 years ago

I used the update, but it still retweets tweets from lvbroadcasting. I noticed that for the bannedwords section you use "" to put words in, and in the bannedusers section you use ''. Can that make a difference for it to work? Thanks, Pascal

robbiebarrat commented 6 years ago

Could you link me to lvbroadcasting's twitter profile?

PascalvanDongen commented 6 years ago

https://twitter.com/lvbroadcasting

robbiebarrat commented 6 years ago

alright - try it now. I have it scan both the screen name and handle; it should definitely work now - let me know if that isn't the case.

PascalvanDongen commented 6 years ago

Still does not work. The script runs for like 60 seconds, retweets a tweet from lvbroadcasting and than i get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "twitterbot.py", line 67, in <module> run() File "twitterbot.py", line 62, in run search(api.search(q=key)) File "twitterbot.py", line 37, in search if is_user_bot_hunter(str(i.author.name), str(i.author.screen_name)) == False: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\U0001f940' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)