PyMouseBot

If you're from GT and annoyed with SGVPN idle timeouts while working on development laptop, You might find this useful.

A python cli bot to move your mouse every few seconds to appear active on Skype, Teams or Zoom as you go AFK. 🐭 🤖

Core Features

• 💻 Cross platform. Both Windows and MacOS. Automagically detects what OS you're running on!
• 🕒 Just run the program together with time you want the bot to stop at in HH:MM:SS 24 hr format!
• 🪶 Ultra light! No compiled binaries. Just a cli app you can use via python.

Pre-requisites

• Python3 installed
• pip installed

How to use

• To add instructions

On Mac

git clone https://github.com/brootware/PyMouseBot.git && cd PyMouseBot

Activate virtual environment and install requirements.

alias python=python3
python -m pip install --user virtualenv
python -m venv bottybot
source ./bottybot/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run as below

python mousebot.py 23:00:00

OR if you want to run as environment variable, run this below.

pip install .
pip install -r requirements
pymousebot 23:00:00

On Windows

git clone https://github.com/brootware/PyMouseBot.git && cd PyMouseBot

Activate virtual environment and install requirements.

python -m venv bottybot
bottybot\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run as below

python .\mousebot.py 23:00:00

OR if you want to run as environment variable, run this below.

pip install .
pip install -r requirements
pymousebot 23:00:00

Change time interval of the movement

python mousebot.py 23:00:00 -i 5

OR

pymousebot 23:00:00 -i 5

Troubleshoot

import tkinter might fail on some mac. Be sure to install python-tk via brew.

brew install python-tk