Bing-Rewards

A CLI app to perform Bing searches

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Install
Requirements
Usage
Config

Features

Script types search queries into the address bar, so must be run in a GUI environment.
Use a mobile user agent to get mobile points (--mobile)
Configurable number of searches with --count=
All files are local, makes no http(s) requests
Only one external dependance (pynput)
Fine tune delay and set browser executable with config at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or %APPDATA% on Windows
Best Value: gift cards: 1,050 points / $1 (current rate)

Installation

pip install bing-rewards

Will make the executable bing-rewards available on your PATH. Look below or try the --help flag to see detailed usage.

Recommended: Use a virtual environment or pipx to avoid poluting your global package path with executable apps. See: pipx

pipx install bing-rewards

NEW IN 2.0: Now using the pynput backend with significantly less dependencies than the old PyAutoGUI. Delete any old virtual enviroment and reinstall to clean up old depdendencies.

Requirements

At least Python 3.10
pynput package is used to control keypresses and type Bing search URLS. WARNING: This script will take control away from the keyboard while running. Pynput performs key presses. i.e., it does not operate headless or in the background.
chrome must be discoverable on the system PATH. Download Google Chrome. If your chromium based browser has a different name use the --exe flag with an absolute path to the browser executable to use (e.g. --exe=$(which brave-browser)). Also see the "browser-path" key in the config file.
To earn points from searching, you must also have logged into bing.com with your Microsoft account at least once, to save cookies.

Usage

`bing-rewards [-h] [--no-window] [-n] [--exe EXE] [-c COUNT] [-d | -m] [--profile "Profile X"]`

Ex: Complete mobile and desktop daily points

$ bing-rewards

Run 10 searches with mobile user-agent in a new window

$ bing-rewards -m -c10

$ bing-rewards --mobile --count=10

Complete mobile and desktop daily points using specified chrome profile "Profile 1"

$ bing-rewards --profile "Profile 1"

Launches Chrome as a subprocess with special flags. Tested on Windows 10 and Linux (Ubuntu + Arch), however it should work on Mac OS as well.

⚠️Known Issue: No other instance of chrome.exe can be open when the script runs. Chrome prevents different user agents in each window. The script will run, but Chrome will not appear as Edge

⚠️Bing has gotten more and more complex with the introduction of the AI tools. Disable as much as you can to make pages load faster. See PR #39 for some modifications you can make to the default search query url parameters that may improve success.

Configuration

Running with no options will complete mobile and desktop daily search quota. The following options are available to change the default behavior. Options supplied at execution time override any config.

Flag	Option
`-h`, `--help`	Display help and exit
`-c`, `--count=N`	Override the number of searches to complete
`-d`, `--desktop`	Only use desktop user agent
`-m`, `--mobile`	Only use a mobile user agent
`-n`, `--dryrun`	Do everything but type the search query
`--open-rewards`	Open the rewards page at the end of the run
`-X`, `--no-exit`	Do not close the browser after completing a search
`--load-delay`	Override the time given to Chrome to load in seconds
`--search-delay`	Override the time between searches in seconds
`--exe EXE`	The full path of the Chrome compatible browser executable (Brave and Chrome tested)
`--nowindow`	Don't open a new Chrome window, just type the keys
`--profile "Profile N"`	Launches chrome using the specified profile. Otherwise use default.
`--ime`	Triggers Windows IME to switch to English input by pressing "shift"

A config file is also generated in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or %APPDATA% on Windows where precise delay modifications can be made. If updates make changes to the default configs, you will have to remove and regenerate the file.

Example config ~/.config/bing-rewards/config.json

{
    "desktop-count": 30,
    "mobile-count": 20,
    "load-delay": 1.5,
    "search-delay": 2,
    "search-url": "https://www.bing.com/search?FORM=CHROMN&q=",
    "desktop-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.61 Safari/537.36 Edg/83.0.478.37",
    "mobile-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows Phone 10.0; Android 6.0.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Mobile Safari/537.36 Edge/18.19041",
    "browser-path": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\BraveSoftware\\Brave-Browser\\Application\\brave.exe"
}

Delay timings are in seconds

User agents

If interested, the following user agents are passed to Chrome using the --user-agent argument. These are clearly defined at the top of bing-rewards.py.

Edge Browser on Windows 10 desktop:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.61 Safari/537.36 Edg/83.0.478.37

Mobile Edge Browser on Windows 10 phone:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows Phone 10.0; Android 6.0.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Mobile Safari/537.36 Edge/18.19041

Words:

The keywords included in this repo where taken from this site https://www.myhelpfulguides.com/2018/07/19/bing-rewards-auto-searcher-with-python-3/.

This script provided the original inspiration but has since been complelty rewritten and expanded. The original author was contacted for the original source of keywords, but declined to respond

Development

This project uses Poetry for dependency management and packaging.

The easiest way to install python apps is with pipx

# Install pipx
pip install pipx
# Install poetry
pipx install poetry

Then, fork the repo, clone and install the dependencies with poetry install.

Install the defined pre-commit hooks: poetry run pre-commit install

Activate the virtualenv: poetry shell

Feel free to open a PR with additional features or fixes

jack-mil / bing-rewards