Twitter Blocking Ubot

[Hugo 2]

After I select and click the settings drop down menu, and then select and click the "Unfollow XXXX" link I get a 403 error. Says I don't have permission to access the twitter.com/friendships/destroy/ page.

 

I can unfollow just fine by hand. I can even do it in the Ubot browser window.

 

I thought the problem might be that twitter detects that a bot is doing the clicking so I added random delays between selections and clicks and still nothing.

 

Anyone been able to successfully unfollow on Twitter using Ubot?

 

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

 

thanks

 

Hugo

[alcr 135]

I have a bot here (I don't remember who made it though, so I can't share it) which follows people from a list and then if you want, it can navigate to an external site and unfollow the people that doesn't follow you.

 

But I'll look into why you're having those errors later today.

[Hugo 2]

Yeah, I actually have that bot as well. But the 3rd party site that does the unfollowing has had their API removed by twitter. Turns out twitter doesn't like mass unfollowers.

 

So I wanted to figure out a way to do it directly in the Twitter UI with ubot to avoid API limitations.

 

Steve

 

ps. I can share the code I'm using currently if you think it'll help figure out the problem.

Edited February 24, 2010 by Hugo

[alcr 135]

And voila

unfollow.ubot

[Hugo 2]

I ran the script you posted, but I'm getting the same error. 403: Access Denied

 

[screenshot Below]

 

http://cookbookforthecure.com/ubot403.jpg

[alcr 135]

Hm interesting. It worked for me earlier today, and now it doesn't. I'm gonna sleep on this and try to figure this out tomorrow.

 

I'm getting 'Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!' though.

[Hugo 2]

I just tried something new and this didn't work either. I set completely random delays between each selection and click (anywhere from under 1 second to over 7)

 

I don't know how twitter is detecting Ubot. Or maybe it isn't. Is it possible that the Ubot browser is trying to load the friendship/destroy page when all it is supposed to do is call it to pass the jquery variable?

 

Does anyone have any ideas on this? Has anyone been able to successfully unfollow via a ubot bot?

 

Hopefully this is something that can be fixed quickly. I hope to get this bot built soon. This is the last piece.

 

Thank You,

 

Hugo

[Hugo 2]

Ok guys, Seth gave me the answer via the Ubot helpdesk, and I figured I'd share it here in case anyone was having a similar problem.

 

Turns out, it is an issue with ubot's handling of javascript, and to get around it, you just have to click the unfollow link in a sub-window. That's it!

 

(example attached)All you have to do is nav to the twitter profile of someone you're following and run the attached sub.

 

Thanks everyone (mostly Seth) for your help.

 

Hugo

Unfollow.ubot

[hernlind 0]

Ok guys, Seth gave me the answer via the Ubot helpdesk, and I figured I'd share it here in case anyone was having a similar problem.

 

Turns out, it is an issue with ubot's handling of javascript, and to get around it, you just have to click the unfollow link in a sub-window. That's it!

 

(example attached)All you have to do is nav to the twitter profile of someone you're following and run the attached sub.

 

Thanks everyone (mostly Seth) for your help.

 

Hugo

 

thanx but not i can´t even go to the signup page, anyone else has that problem

[alcr 135]

thanx but not i can´t even go to the signup page, anyone else has that problem

What? This bot is only to demonstrate unfollowing in twitter?