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.
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Clone to your computer.
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Install dependencies:
yarn install
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Building the extension:
yarn build # or if you want to watch for file changes yarn watch -
Creating a zip file:
yarn zip
- Access
chrome://extensions. - Enable
Developer mode. - Load the extension with
Load unpacked. - You must reload the extension after each change in the code.
- Access
about:debugging. - Select
Enable add-on debugging. - Load the extension with
Load Temporary Add-on... - You must reload the extension after each change in the code.
- The extension is running automatically when Twitter is accessed in the browser.
- 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:
- Bake something and eat it. 🍞
- Install Node.js.
- Install Yarn.
- If you're using VSCode, please install the extensions: TSLint and Prettier - Code formatter.
- Create a fork of this repository.
- Create a branch (
git checkout -b feat/check_bot). - Commit your changes (
git commit -am "test: add some tests"). - Push to the branch (
git push origin feat/check_bot) - Open a Pull Request.
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
 Noam R 💼 🖋 📋 🤔 🛡️ 📢 |  Yuval Adam 💼 🖋 📋 🤔 🛡️ 📢 |  Eran Shmil 🤔 🚇 💻 |  Yuval Larom 🤔 💻 |  Akiva 🤔 🚇 💻 |  Eran Cohen 💻 |  TomKizaru 💻 |
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!