This bot is on the hunt.
To incentivize more people to use Bing for web/mobile searches, Bing sponsors a loyalty program called Bing Rewards, which rewards users with points in return for signing in with a Hotmail/Outlook account and searching on Bing. Like the points in a frequent-flyer program, these points can be exchanged for gift cards and other amenities. You can find out more about Bing Rewards here.
In 3 words - Automate Bing searches.
To accumulate Bing Rewards points, one must perform 30 desktop-based and 20 mobile-based Bing searches per day; this will yield a total of 25 Bing Rewards points per day.
Now, for those who prefer non-Bing search engines (i.e, Google, DuckDuckGo), this could be difficult, whether due to forgetfulness or habit. So, this script will allow them to easily accumulate those points on days where they've neglected to perform the necessary amount of Bing searches.
- Python 3.5 or above
- PyQt5
- randomwordgenerator-0.2
- requests
- selenium
- sqlalchemy
To install the latter 4 dependencies, run the following in the root/main directory:
pip install -r "requirements.txt"
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usage: driver.py [-h] -f FILENAME [-e EMAIL_ADDRESSES]
Accumulate daily Bing Rewards desktop and mobile points.
optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -f FILENAME, --filename FILENAME Name of JSON file with Bing Rewards account credentials; if it does not exist, specify alongside "-e" to create. -e EMAIL_ADDRESSES, --email_addresses EMAIL_ADDRESSES Comma-separated Bing Rewards accounts' email addresses; will be added to credentials JSON file if it already exists but will create and add to a new JSON file if it doesn't.
If the "-e" flag is specified, driver.py will prompt for a password for each of the provided email accounts. The given email addresses and passwords will then either be appended to the specified JSON file name if it already exists or written to a new JSON file with the given filename if it doesn't.
usage: guidriver.py [-h] -f DB_FILENAME
Accumulate daily Bing Rewards desktop and mobile points.
optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -f DB_FILENAME, --db_filename DB_FILENAME Name of the SQLite database file (*.db) with the target Bing Rewards accounts' credentials; if the provided filename does not exist, then it shall be created.
In the actual GUI:
- The left-hand side (email and password fields, "Add Credentials" button) contains a form to add Bing Rewards accounts' credentials to the bot's email registry.
- The right-hand side (a list of email addresses) shows the email addresses of Bing Rewards accounts that have been successfully added to the bot's email registry. This data is persistent (lasts across app sessions) so long as the credentials database file is not deleted.
- The bottom-most button ("Run") is used to run the Bing Rewards bot for the email addresses in its registry.