Python Bot Twitch Viewer (Selenium)

Question

So basically i am working on a python script that loggs into a twitch account and stays there to generate a viewer.

But my main issue is how do i make this work for multiple accounts.

How to hide alle the Windows, and how can i handle multiple selenium windows ?

Is selenium even good for that or is there a other way ?

from selenium import webdriver
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument("--mute-audio")
driver = webdriver.Chrome("D:\Downloads\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe", chrome_options=chrome_options)


driver.minimize_window()

driver.get('https://www.twitch.tv/login')
search_form = driver.find_element_by_id('login-username')
search_form.send_keys('user')
search_form = driver.find_element_by_id('password-input')
search_form.send_keys('password')
search_form.submit()
driver.implicitly_wait(10)
driver.get('https://www.twitch.tv/channel')

This sounds as if it would violate several user/developer agreements with twitch. — Kraay89, Sep 04 '20 at 13:48
The main question is : how can irun multiple instances of selenium ? — InvolveX, Sep 04 '20 at 18:15

johncorbin36 · Answer 1 · 2020-11-19T15:56:46.137

You are definitely able to use Selenium and Python to do this. To run multiple accounts, you will have to utilize multi-threading or create multiple driver objects to manage.

Multithreading example from this thread:

from selenium import webdriver
import threading
import time

def test_logic():
    driver = webdriver.Firefox()
    url = 'https://www.google.co.in'
    driver.get(url)
    # Implement your test logic
    time.sleep(2)
    driver.quit()

N = 5   # Number of browsers to spawn
thread_list = list()

# Start test
for i in range(N):
    t = threading.Thread(name='Test {}'.format(i), target=test_logic)
    t.start()
    time.sleep(1)
    print t.name + ' started!'
    thread_list.append(t)

# Wait for all thre<ads to complete
for thread in thread_list:
    thread.join()

print 'Test completed!'

Each driver will have to use a proxy connection to connect to Twitch on separate IP addresses. I suggest using Opera as it has a built in VPN, makes it a lot easier.

Example of Opera and Selenium from this thread:

from selenium import webdriver
from time import sleep

# The profile directory which Opera VPN was enabled manually using the GUI
opera_profile = '/home/user-directory/.config/opera' 
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('user-data-dir=' + opera_profile)
driver = webdriver.Opera(options=options)
driver.get('https://whatismyipaddress.com')
sleep(10)
driver.quit()

To hide the console for webdrivers you must run them with the "headless" option. Headless for chrome driver.

from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")

Unfortunately headless is not supported in Opera driver, so you must use Chrome or Firefox for this.

Good luck!

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 04 '20 at 13:56

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hi you will not be able to create a bot with selenium because even if you manage to connect several accounts on the twitch account, twitch (like youtube) have a system that looks at your IP address and does not increase the number of views if the multiple connection come from the same computer.

answered Sep 04 '20 at 13:56

Raphaël Gervillié

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cant you use the proxy option ? – InvolveX Sep 04 '20 at 14:13

score -2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 12 '23 at 00:00

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You could use a virtual machine or multiple computers on linode.com or aws and then just inject the code into your machine with python there.

answered Apr 12 '23 at 00:00

CMGroup

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