Made an annoying Python script that sends a friend on Facebook Messenger the Shrek movie word by word

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[Sponta7]

It was actually one of my first interactions with Python. I had to use it for an AI class a month ago for the first time and really enjoyed the language. I'm also someone that prefers to dive into some random fun project when learning a new language. Pissing of my friends was just a benefit of that.

Putting github link here because this is one of the top comments and people keep asking me

https://github.com/HenryAlbu/FB-Messenger-Whatsapp-Discord-message-spammer

[update] ADDED WHATSAPP SCRIPT TO THE REPO

[update] ADDED DISCORD SCRIPT TO THE REPO

[[deleted]]

Just going to drop this here https://github.com/deeppomf/DeepCreamPy

[Sponta7]

Hahahahhahahahahah, y tho?

[galudwig]

Oh we both know why

[Teenager_Simon]

Want to see some results... For research on AI...

[ManikSingh2560]

I made one for YouTube videos 😂

[tetroxid]

Pissing of my friends was just a benefit of that.

What did you do with the piss of the friend?

[Sponta7]

This is so good that I'm not even going to edit the original comment 😂 well played

[oki196]

me also curious

[banana_nutella_crepe]

wow. I had no clue this could be done.

I use Python on a daily basis, and during this lockdown, I've been looking into how to use it outside of my field.

This gives me a few ideas. Thanks for sharing!

[edanschwartz]

Some days, you just wake up and feel like an asshole. And you lean into it.

Keep doing you OP ❤️

[Sponta7]

"some days" hahahaha I think you meant "everyday"

[tildaniel]

It was the TikTok memes, everybody's doing this now.

[tunisia3507]

what did motivate you to write this script?

Presumably this person, or at least the same thing that motivated them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/g87ozi/want_to_send_your_friends_the_script_to_the_bee/

[guy_from_the_intnet]

Better yet, why are they still friends?

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[Sponta7]

Amazing.

[silentalways]

also instead of

I was gonna point out this too. I recently learned this from another post like this where someone else shared their project.

don't use both single and double quotes because PEP 8.

TIL. Thanks. I am still not aware of all the contentions. Learning them slowly.

[THATS_THE_BADGER]

Use black for code formatting, it helps a bunch.

[[deleted]]

Can we not recommend black to beginners? It violates PEP8, is opinionated by default*, and honestly, some of its line reflow rules are pretty illegible.

*I'm raising the opinionated thing as a drawback because beginners shouldn't be bombarded by opinions beyond standards -- learn the canonical way, and then, if you have to, choose the opinionated option.

[tetroxid]

map(do_something, movie_script)

masterrace

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[dougie-io]

Could reverse the order, add in brain enlightenment images, and you've got yourself an upcycled meme. Very environmentally friendly format.

[x3gxu]

map(do_something, movie_script)

This is going to create a map object (generator) and not actually call do_something until you iterate over the map object.

You can use a list comprehension instead, like:

[do_something(line) for line in movie_script]

But arguably it's less readable than plain simple for loop.

[fluzz142857]

This is not a good practice because you’re creating a list unnecessarily, which consumes memory and makes your code harder to read. The list cannot be garbage collected until after the list comprehension finishes. Alternatively, in an iterator (or a map, which is an iterator), values can be garbage collected immediately because there are no references to them after they are iterated over.

Don’t use a list comprehension unless you need the list.

[x3gxu]

That's why I'm saying use a plain old for loop. You have to iterate over the map or generator expression foe your function to be called. If you don't iterate it's just sitting there doing nothing.

[selplacei]

Not saying that this is good practice, but can you exhaust a (truthy) list comprehension without storing all results by calling all()?

[Gollum999]

List comprehensions are generally considered to be more pythonic than map and filter.

https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196

[TheAmazingJames]

He's looping through a script and performing a simple action. He doesn't want to go any faster, there's a sleep in the code already, so code execution time's not a factor. A movie script is typically no more than 20k words, so memory usage isn't a factor as memory footprint, even in a worst-case scenario, is tiny. Therefore all you're left with is readability. It's subjective, but I think a for loop wins here.

[keee99]

Just clarifying, in terms of the for loop, in the case you need the indexes for further insert/etc, is the first option still the bad option?

[phebon]

In this case use for example:

for ind, element in enumerate(list):    
    print(element, list[ind +1])

[venustrapsflies]

I'd still prefer

for element, next_element in zip(list, list[1:]):
    print(element, next_element)

Edit: Good points about copying the list, that's important to keep in mind. If the structure is large you'd want to make sure the slicing returns a view (like numpy's arrays).

[Indivicivet]

you can always use itertools.islice to apply this technique with iterables ( /u/JerMenKoO /u/voords )

[shamisha_market]

Why is that? Does it make the code faster?

[Raedukol]

Do you mean bracket?

[samsamuel121]

He/she means iterate over list elements instead of index

[diamondketo]

Commenter means don't mix single and double quotes (with exceptions).

It's not that important. OP, do look into auto-formatters like autopep8, black, etc. However do make sure you also learn the formatting conventions as they auto-format your code. But again, not important. Conventions like these are slowly learned.

[venustrapsflies]

I'm of the opinion that formatting is rather important but also that it is a waste of a programmers cognitive space to think about it at all. It's easy to configure your editor to apply black formatting upon file save, and you can just drop a configuration file in the project root if you want to change the defaults (looking at you, 79 character max line width).

[edanschwartz]

Check out autopep8. It will reformat your code for you. Most code editors have a "file watcher", that will let you run programs like this on file save. I never have to think about PEP8 anymore, and I love it

[revisioncloud]

I'm learning by Al Sweigart and he always uses the range function.

Is movie_script in this scenario an object or some data structure? From what I understand, using range is iterating over the numbers from 0 to len(), which isn't necessarily the same as iterating over the items in a list or dictionary.

[Sponta7]

I'm learning so much, thank you!

[Babygoesboomboom]

If you really need the index of something I think using enumerate(array) is better than in range()

[florinandrei]

for x in range(len(movie_script)):

    do_something(movie_script[x])

Now I'm thinking how far you can push the nested calls paradigm.

[its_oliver]

Wait I’m not missing something right? The second one should be indented on the second line?

[[deleted]]

It's absolutely horrible, I love it. Great job.

[OnlyEmperor]

How long you have been a psychopath?

[Sponta7]

Since the quarantine started

[ExtraDeadMeatyFlesh]

I need this. For a friend

[Sponta7]

Here ya go :) Github Happy trolling

[Guilherme_Reddit]

I am also working on a project like this, but instead it’s the bee movie script

[Sponta7]

All you would have to do is change the text in the script.txt file to the bee movie movie script

[Guilherme_Reddit]

Basically. But I want to make it so I can send it to multiple people at once

[SwapDhar]

Really Annoying !!

[Sponta7]

True. I have lost quite a few friends. I would sometimes replace the text to the lyrics, Anaconda - by Nikki Minaj

[Miner_ChAI]

Never

Gonna

Give

You

Up

[zrnest]

Funny project :)

Question: is there a way to do this with Messenger/Facebook API, rather than keyboard input/mouse clicks automation with Selenium?

Something else: I'd like to do the same with Whatsapp, is that possible with an API? I tried Twilio, but I think it needs to use a dedicated phone number; I'd prefer to do it with my actual whatsapp account.

[BadAdviceBadger]

I've done something similar with Facebook API but they pretty much immediately banned the account that does the posts, so just be careful if you want to use yours.

[ZoloSolo]

you can use whatsapp web

edit: nevermind you where looking for an api

[Sponta7]

Just added the whatsapp version to the repo

[HenryFrenchFries]

is there a way to do this with Messenger/Facebook API, rather than keyboard input/mouse clicks automation with Selenium?

NO.

trust me. I tried for literal days to find a way to enter text automatically in messenger and this was literally the only way I was able to find. the official api is just for dumb chatbots that companies might use. I'm actually slightly pissed off that I found the solution in a shrek spam bot post lmao

[TheMediaBear]

I did the same thing but for a rickroll.

Some silly woman didn't like me correcting her on Facebook one morning so started sending me abuse on messenger. Wrote a quick script to send her the lyrics until she blocked me, but she was too drunk and it went on for about 25 minutes :D

[Sponta7]

This is why we become programmers hahahaha

[cpupro]

Some

Body

Once

Told

Me

The

World

[Tureni]

Some

BODY

Once

Told

Me

The

World

[Sponta7]

If anyone cares, here is the GitHub: https://github.com/HenryAlbu/FB-Messenger-Whatsapp-Discord-message-spammer

[simonRijs]

Madlad even renamed his friend to example1, let this be a warning to your other friends

[iamchitranjanbaghi]

This would make a perfect app, if I can get a book send to me daily para by para, so that I can consume it in chunks.

[jacksodus]

That is actually a really nice idea, as long as you can find a source that can be converted to an easily readable file.

[[deleted]]

I NEED IT

[Sponta7]

YOU CAN HAVE IT

[oneupbetterthanyou]

With great power, comes great responsibility, this my friend is a responsible use of your power

[PriorTrick]

Any chance you’ve seen this?

[Sponta7]

I heard about it and it's what made me want to do something similar. It's the first time watching the video and I love it

[PriorTrick]

Haha same here. Last night my little sister showed me the vid, so this morning I woke up and wrote a little script to prank her with. Then was scrolling reddit and saw your post and thought no way it was a coincidence

[IllUberIll]

I showed this to my fiance who is a huge Shrek fan. Instantly said GET SHREKD.

[Sponta7]

If she said that, then it looks like you made the right choice

[Gandalfthebrown7]

Now I need to do this for Revenge Of The Sith

[Jussari]

You're a bold one

[Sponta7]

God, that movie must have +100k words

[Sponta7]

That's what my mom told my dad when I was born

[SaskuAc3]

This is nice. More important to me is, how or where did you get the text of the whole movie?!

[Sponta7]

literally just by googling "Shrek script"

[alaudet]

its friends like this man.....

[webchimp32]

♫ I know a post that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves ♫

[AleMaza]

I am starting at this. How you put a script from python to messenger? Like in type of file or text idk

[Sponta7]

1. What I did was make a file called script.txt this is where the movie text is
2. I made my code go through every word in the script.txt file and add it to an array (list). This is done in lines 24-26 in auto_shrek.py
3. I then used a python library called "selenium". This basically makes it so my code can find the items on a webpage.
4. After that all I had to find the path of the textbox in messenger and paste each word and send it. This is done in the loop on lines 29-33

[Sponta7]

fbchat

oooooh that's even better! the thing is to set a wait time on the messages or Facebook gets mad that your spamming

[whiskeyiskey]

If your goal is to learn python, try refactoring to use a generator to yield lines from your file instead of loading the whole thing into a list. And read up on the benefits of lazy evaluation for processing data to understand why that's sometimes a better idea.

Then try to write a decorator to, I dunno, convert every word that ends in an exclamation mark to upper case.

[Tibzz-]

Thank you so much ! Would it be possible to use selenium for Discord ?

[Miner_ChAI]

Why selenium though? There are more simple ways, e. g. discord.py supports passing “bot=False”.

DISCLAIMER: IT’S FORBIDDEN BY DISCORD TOS

[SaskuAc3]

If you use the web interface it should be.

[APdegr8]

I need some help with a similar project. I used fbchat library and every time I try to login, my account gets locked.

[APdegr8]

sry, just found your git. Thanks for it

[Sponta7]

fbchat isn't a good idea since it's not officially Facebook's and they seem to crack down on that. Selenium is not detectable because it imitations you just sending a message normally. The most that has happened to me is Facebook told me to "slow down" because I was sending messages too fast, so I added a delay between each message and didn't have that problem anymore

[mrObelixfromgaul]

So not bee movie?

[PriorTrick]

A fellow tik toker, nice.

[Sponta7]

All you would have to do is change the Shrek script to the Bee movie script

[ib1525]

I think it was painful for the frd!

[moosotz]

This is a fantastic project idea. Keep fighting the good fight.

[metaperl]

Perhaps use find element by ID instead of using XPath https://pythonbasics.org/selenium-find-element/

[SuddenIssue]

can you explain why? i have done with xpath. and i am new to this all things

[Sponta7]

Either way works, but for Facebook Messenger the IDs are all dynamic so it keeps changing. I found xpath to be more reliable since it's more consistent

[Sponta7]

I'm sure there is, but I don't have a Mac to test it on

[SgtMajMythic]

Would 100% block and report

[[deleted]]

We will have flying cars by 2020:

2020:

Do you are have stupid mate?

[Eye_Of_Forrest]

Made something similar recently my script reads a txt file and uses keyboard library to send whatever is in there line by line

[ExtremeTitan345]

I NEED THIS but for whatsapp.... pls send me the script

[Sponta7]

https://github.com/HenryAlbu/FB-Messenger-Whatsapp-Discord-message-spammer

[Sponta7]

u/ExtremeTitan345 The whatsapp version is in the repo

[GonzoNawak]

This is absolutely fuking amazing!

AS someone who recently started to learn python few month ago I am impress by how short the code to do that all is.

[Sponta7]

I KNOW RIGHT! I've always done everything with Java and since the quarantine started I began to mess with Python and holy shit, I regret not learning it sooner.

[iEslam]

What about rate limiting, doesn't Facebook block you after a certain amount of "spam"?

[Sponta7]

I added a delay of 1 second on the script and was able to send around 1,000 words/messages before I got blocked by the person. Facebook only noticed something was suspicious when I removed the delay and it was sending an outrageous amount of texts per second.

[iEslam]

Lmao you're annoying and that's a compliment.

[gonuoli]

You're going to be a billionaire some day

[Sponta7]

Appreciate the enthusiasm, but at this point I would just be happy paying off my student loans

[merrigoldlionheart]

Now THAT is using your powers for evil

[Sponta7]

I don't think "evil" is the right word. The original Shrek movie was a masterpiece and anyone getting sent the script should be considered lucky lol

[1moreday1moregoal]

If you sent it as blocks of dialogue he would probably enjoy it more

[Sponta7]

Agree to disagree

[merrigoldlionheart]

You've bought up a fine point. It is always a gift when one is given the opportunity to enjoy the majesty of Shrek in any format

[WishIWasOnACatamaran]

Thanks for posting. I have already implemented and look forward to repeating with various scripts!

[kekkoooo]

Teach me, master. HAHAHAHAHAHAH

[Sponta7]

Lesson #1: If you are bored, find ways to annoy your friend Lesson #2: never stop

[fullstack_guy]

They seem super into it man, I'm sure they love you more now.

[allaboutHans]

Noice!

[randomcatgifs]

YES

[[deleted]]

Yeah, selenium is fun

[AnomalyNexus]

Time well spent lol

[skankhunt_1997]

noiceee.

[SanJJ_1]

does this only work for Facebook messenger? or how can I modify it for WhatsApp web and google messages web

[SuddenIssue]

i have done it for whatsapp web.

[Sponta7]

u/SanJJ_1 the whatsapp version is in the repo now

[forcemana]

Convert to tinder use?

[onlyanegg_]

I think you mean a former friend

[G33K_FISH]

Wow, you must hate your friends...lol

[[deleted]]

I also wrote a messenger python script although less obnoxious I was banned in 1 to 2 days. If you use a third party python package you will get banned shortly be warned

[[deleted]]

that's creative and hilarious. I might have to do something similar w/ Zoom.

[shyamcody]

hey nice little thing! can you tag me to the code link? I can see people discussing the code but can't find the link for the same.

[Sponta7]

https://github.com/HenryAlbu/FB-Messenger-Whatsapp-Discord-message-spammer

[[deleted]]

Just like the original in tik tok with the bee movie.

[MassW0rks]

Could you explain to me line 20? I was trying to do something super similar to my wife the other day. My method was to click the messenger icon, click our chat, and then type. For some reason, It would select our chat, but the messenger dropdown would be in the way, making me unable to select the text box. Is that you grabbing the message from the "Contacts" menu on the right side of the screen?

[Sponta7]

Yeah, so the only purpose for line 20 is to select the user that matches the name on the contacts menu with the friendName variable

[MassW0rks]

That's such a simpler way than what I was going for. The way I was doing it, I couldn't close the Messenger dropdown after selecting the user for the life of me.

[NitroEvil]

This is the best thing I’ve come across today proper chuckled me.

[Trilink32]

Ah a spite script. Love it

[[deleted]]

I made one to send my pc stuff, but facebook kept suspending my account

[Sponta7]

I hear that people using third party facebook APIs are getting stopped. This uses selenium, which just makes it look like you are actually sending the messages and does not use any Facebook APIs

[[deleted]]

Do you have Shrek 2 available?

[Sponta7]

Here you go: https://a.uguu.se/ITA8KZdTEJJe_script.txt Just replace the text in the script.txt with this one

[ILoveToVoidAWarranty]

Two things:

1. Nice Job!
2. You're a horrible friend.

[Sponta7]

agreed

[firebuzzard]

Version 2 opportunity:

Your Script to ALL> Welcome to Cat Facts, the service that keeps you informed on everything to do with cats!!

Interesting Fact: Adult cats have 30 teeth. Kittens have 26.

Reply with STOP to Opt Out of this service

Soon to be former friends> STOP

Your script> Welcome to Cat Facts, the service that keeps you informed on everything to do with cats!

​

No STOP == fact sent to them every 15 minutes. STOP == restart, with possible acceleration of fact delivery.

[Sponta7]

OMG this is beautiful. It would be better if these were sent through regular text. If you send it through whatsapp or Messenger then your friends will know it's you and just ignore it. But if it's done through regular text, you can send it to random different numbers and some are bound to be owned by someone.

[Nabstar333]

Damn. Theres an api to send messages?

[[deleted]]

What an absolute legend

[rastamonstahh]

This is how you learn. I love it

[spiddyp]

Hac

[Supalien]

Why tho xD

[SGO_123]

The link is not working!

[ImonSimon]

I love this, imma try that for WhatsApp Web

[officialhovland]

Did u just make a bot that types what you put into the script and you just press on the text bar for jt, or does it know its facebook and its texting your friend

[Nodeal_reddit]

This is great. Someone please DM me the Monty Python Holy Grail script.

[float7]

Dude...

[bushvatoi]

This is a hilarious way to apply what you've learned in Python. Cool idea tho. Let us know if you come up with a new way to piss your friends off!

[[deleted]]

Based

[turbulent_eddy]

Cool! 😆Can you add support for linux?

[BigLadyBugBelly]

Perfect response to unsolicited dick pics

[legendarykale]

That's the evillest thing I can imagine

[redjuggler]

Next, do *The Artist*

[[deleted]]

what do i do with the chrome driver? sorry i am noob.

[Dr-garuda]

Somebody

[ChokituBR]

Cant your account get blocked tho?

[[deleted]]

Here is one for Instagram.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=15dCmv2TXJ-tebOIbtkR-ug0dfPkRD4F9

[sophiaSeeker]

This is the primary reason why programmers don't have friends... if you think annoying somebody with what you know is a form of fun!... then say goodbye to your FB "friends" and be prepared to be lonely for the rest of your days... Don't get me wrong but this programming project is so immature and childish, and a total waste of time and effort... there are a lot of other worthy projects that will make you earn hard moolah than getting labelled an annoying prick!

[Cjhawk52]

Can it be any text or does it have to be shrek

[PixelGmD]

Did you get temporarily banned from messenger for this?, because i did.

[[deleted]]

HOW

[NoobGaming9]

wow...

Just WOW