Twitter Automation Development Tutorials, Guides & Insights

Expand the tweets and engage arrays in background.js to include more content:

const tweets = [
  "https://developerbreeze.com/post/59",
  "https://anotheramazingresource.com",
  "https://yetanothergreatsite.com",
];

const engage = [
  "Check this out! ",
  "Learn something new today! ",
  "This is a must-read! ",
];

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time

# Twitter credentials
USERNAME = 'your_twitter_username'
PASSWORD = 'your_twitter_password'

# List of tweets to post
tweets = [
    "Hello, Twitter! This is a Selenium automated tweet.",
    "Automating tweets without API keys!",
    "Selenium is great for browser automation.",
    # Add more tweets here
]

# Initialize WebDriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()  # Or webdriver.Firefox(), depending on your browser

# Open Twitter login page
driver.get('https://twitter.com/login')

# Log in to Twitter
time.sleep(2)
username_input = driver.find_element(By.NAME, 'session[username_or_email]')
password_input = driver.find_element(By.NAME, 'session[password]')

username_input.send_keys(USERNAME)
password_input.send_keys(PASSWORD)
password_input.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

time.sleep(3)  # Wait for login to complete

# Function to post a tweet
def post_tweet(tweet):
    tweet_box = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div[data-testid='tweetTextarea_0']")
    tweet_box.send_keys(tweet)
    time.sleep(1)

    tweet_button = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div[data-testid='tweetButtonInline']")
    tweet_button.click()
    print(f"Tweeted: {tweet}")
    time.sleep(5)  # Wait for the tweet to post

# Post all tweets
for tweet in tweets:
    post_tweet(tweet)

# Close the browser
driver.quit()

To run your script, navigate to the directory where twitter_bot.py is located and execute the following command:

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a Twitter bot using Python and the Tweepy library. This bot will automate the process of posting tweets at different times throughout the day. This can be useful for maintaining an active presence on Twitter without manual effort.

Before you start, ensure you have the following: