Botz

The Big Bots project is a social experiment aimed at identifying bots and sock puppets in the social platforms feeds. https://botim.online 

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.

Table of Contents

• Development
• Using the extension
  • Chrome
  • Firefox
• Contributing
  • Prerequisites
  • Submitting Changes
• Contributors

Development

1. Clone to your computer.

2. Install dependencies:

   yarn install

3. Building the extension:

   yarn build
   
   # or if you want to watch for file changes
   yarn watch

4. Creating a zip file:

   yarn zip

Using the extension

Chrome

1. Access chrome://extensions.
2. Enable Developer mode.
3. Load the extension with Load unpacked.
4. You must reload the extension after each change in the code. 

Firefox

1. Access about:debugging.
2. Select Enable add-on debugging.
3. Load the extension with Load Temporary Add-on...
4. You must reload the extension after each change in the code. 

• The extension is running automatically when Twitter is accessed in the browser.

from https://github.com/botim/botz