Remove twitter bot followers

with a somewhat automated method, of course.

This only liberates you from clicking each bot follower, but you still gotta clone this, maybe also install nvm/npm and a chromium (god forbid), whatever.

The playwright script was modified from Yiming's Twitter Banger Generator.

Functionality

It logs onto your account, goes into the followers page/tab (not "Verified Followers" if that matters!!!) and removes as many bot followers meeting a custom criteria as before a bug hits. Right now there shouldn't be any bugs but oh well.

Custom criteria?

If you go into tests/rmbots.spec.js where the "test" actually is, the criteria or condition is specified with

• if (/\d{5,}/.test(followerUname)) {

This is to say we check for 5 or more consecutive numbers in the follower username. You can modify this to your choice.

Installation

• clone this repo,
• cd into this repo,
• npm install
• npx playwright install chrome
• create a config.json file in the project root directory and use the following format:

{
  "username": YOUR_UNAME_HERE,
  "password": YOUR_PW_HERE
}

From here on, you can either

• run the test in a supported IDE (i.e. VSCode with Playwright plugin),
• npx playwright test --project=LocalChrome
• or, like me, just run the run.sh.

whichever works best for you.

Then just grab a drink and watch.