This is a PoC and was developed for educational purposes only. You may get your account banned. Use at your own risk.
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
pip install -r requirements.txt
Make sure to enable the user scope and all subscopes inside of that permission.
Create a .env file on the project's root directory or edit .env.sample (rename to .env) and add your username and PAT.
GITHUB_USER=YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME
TOKEN=YOUR_GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN
python bot_follow.py -t <TARGET_USER>
python bot_follow.py -p <COUNTRY_NAME>
Follow users from a pre-generated file (JSON)
python bot_follow.py -f <FILENAME>
note: Unfollow order is FIFO, as in the most recently followed user will be the last to be unfollowed.
Unfollow all your followings
python bot_unfollow.py -a
Only unfollow users who already follow you
python bot_unfollow.py -fo
Only unfollow users who don't follow you back
python bot_unfollow.py -nf
Unfollow users from a pre-generated file (JSON)
python bot_unfollow.py -f <FILENAME>
Set the maximum number of follow/unfollow actions
-m 300
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
-slmin 600 - Maximum delay when rate limited
-slmin 1500
- Schedule - Bot only performs actions between set time and sleeps after off-schedule
- Max follow per source - Follow max
nper popular user - Add follow source - Follow users per topic
- 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
nrepositories of followed users
Contributions are welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.
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.