GitHub Follow Bot

Table of Contents

• Disclaimer
• How to Use
  • Install requirements
  • Authenticate
    • Get a GitHub Personal Access Token
    • Add your GitHub username and PAT to .env file
  • Follow
  • Unfollow
  • Options
    • Maximum number of follow/unfollow actions
    • Speed
• Future implementation
• Contributing
• Resources

Disclaimer

This is a PoC and was developed for educational purposes only. You may get your account banned. Use at your own risk.

Spam and Inauthentic Activity on GitHub

Automated excessive bulk activity and coordinated inauthentic activity, such as spamming, are prohibited on GitHub. Prohibited activities include:

• (...)
• inauthentic interactions, such as fake accounts and automated inauthentic activity
• rank abuse, such as automated starring or following

From GitHub Acceptable Use Policies

How to Use

Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Authenticate

Get a GitHub Personal Access Token

Make sure to enable the user scope and all subscopes inside of that permission.

How to get your GitHub PAT

Add your GitHub username and PAT to .env file

Create a .env file on the project's root directory or edit .env.sample (rename to .env) and add your username and PAT.

USER=YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME
TOKEN=YOUR_GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN

Follow

• Target user's followers

   python bot_follow.py -t 
       
  
       

• Most popular users' followers from a country (list of valid countries)

   python bot_follow.py -p 
       
  
       

• File (usernames separated by comma)

   python bot_follow.py -f 
       
  
       

Unfollow

note: Unfollow order is FIFO, as in the most recently followed user will be the last to be unfollowed.

• All

   python bot_unfollow.py -a
  

• Follow back

   python bot_unfollow.py -fb
  

• File (usernames separated by comma)

   python bot_unfollow.py -f 
       
  
       

Options

Maximum number of follow/unfollow actions

-m 300

Speed

A random delay (in seconds) is performed after follow/unfollow actions or when the account is rate limited. You can change these delays to your liking with the following arguments:

• Minimum delay between actions

   -smin 20
  

• Maximum delay between actions

   -smax 120
  

• Minimum delay when rate limited

   -smin 600
  

• Maximum delay when rate limited

   -smin 1500
  

Future implementation

• Schedule - Bot only performs actions between set time and sleeps after off-schedule
• Add follow source - Grab followers from users listed in a file
• Email followed users - Send an email to followed users with templates (colaboration, follow back or custom)
• Star n repositories of followed users

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Follow the contribution guidelines.

Wish there was another feature? Feel free to open an feature request issue with your suggestion!

If you find a bug, kindly open an bug report issue as described in the contribution guidelines.

Resources

• GitHub API
• Top GitHub Users By Country
• GitHub-Follow-Bot