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Botz

Botz is a Chrome/Firefox extension that detects suspicious bot activity.
The Big Bots Project is a social experiment aimed at identifying bots and sock puppets in the social platforms feeds.

Hat tip to noam-r & Yuval Adam for leading the entire project.
Thanks to anyone who participated in botim.online Hackathons!

Visit https://botim.online to support the project and to submit bot reports.

Table of Contents

Development

  1. Clone to your computer.

  2. Install dependencies:

    yarn install
  3. Building the extension:

    yarn build
    
    # or if you want to watch for file changes
    yarn watch
  4. Creating a zip file:

    yarn zip

Using the extension

Chrome

  1. Access chrome://extensions.
  2. Enable Developer mode.
  3. Load the extension with Load unpacked.
  4. You must reload the extension after each change in the code.

Firefox

  1. Access about:debugging.
  2. Select Enable add-on debugging.
  3. Load the extension with Load Temporary Add-on...
  4. You must reload the extension after each change in the code. Firefox
  • The extension is running automatically when Twitter is accessed in the browser.

Contributing

  • Having a problem with the extension? Please open an Issue.
  • Willing to take your chances with some issue, please post a comment to prevent collision with someone else.

If you would like to contribute some feature/bugfix to the project, complete the following steps:

Prerequisites

  1. Bake something and eat it. 🍞
  2. Install Node.js.
  3. Install Yarn.
  4. If you're using VSCode, please install the extensions: TSLint and Prettier - Code formatter.

Submitting Changes

  1. Create a fork of this repository.
  2. Create a branch (git checkout -b feat/check_bot).
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am "test: add some tests").
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin feat/check_bot)
  5. Open a Pull Request.

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Noam R
Noam R

πŸ’Ό πŸ–‹ πŸ“‹ πŸ€” πŸ›‘οΈ πŸ“’
Yuval Adam
Yuval Adam

πŸ’Ό πŸ–‹ πŸ“‹ πŸ€” πŸ›‘οΈ πŸ“’
Eran Shmil
Eran Shmil

πŸ€” πŸš‡ πŸ’»
Yuval Larom
Yuval Larom

πŸ€” πŸ’»
Akiva
Akiva

πŸ€” πŸš‡ πŸ’»
Eran Cohen
Eran Cohen

πŸ’»
TomKizaru
TomKizaru

πŸ’»

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

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