WEBVTT 0 00:00.180 --> 00:04.770 Hey guys, welcome to Day 50 of 100 Days of Code. You've made it. 1 00:04.770 --> 00:08.430 It's half way. You've gone so far from the beginning. 2 00:08.820 --> 00:13.050 And today I've got a special project just to celebrate that. We're going to be 3 00:13.050 --> 00:15.450 building a auto tinder bot. 4 00:16.170 --> 00:19.350 So for those of you guys who don't know what Tinder is 5 00:19.410 --> 00:21.360 and I'm not sure if I believe you, 6 00:22.470 --> 00:26.520 but Tinder is basically an app which helps people date online. 7 00:26.850 --> 00:30.450 The idea is that you see somebody's profile, you hit like, 8 00:30.540 --> 00:33.060 and if they like your profile as well, 9 00:33.300 --> 00:37.500 then you've made a match and you can chat to each other and potentially set up a 10 00:37.500 --> 00:41.100 date. Super simple and it's probably one of the top 11 00:41.130 --> 00:42.870 most downloaded apps currently. 12 00:43.530 --> 00:48.530 So there's a bit of a backstory about how this project came about. A few weeks 13 00:48.660 --> 00:49.050 ago, 14 00:49.050 --> 00:53.940 I was at a barbecue and some friends started talking about how they were so 15 00:53.940 --> 00:58.260 frustrated with online dating. One of my friends, let's call him 16 00:58.410 --> 01:03.410 Jason says that he spends about two hours a day swiping and chatting on Tinder. 17 01:04.740 --> 01:07.200 But even after all of that time and effort, 18 01:07.320 --> 01:10.020 he just doesn't end up getting any dates. 19 01:10.710 --> 01:15.180 And at a time I remember looking around and pretty much all the boys in the 20 01:15.180 --> 01:19.920 group actually agreed with him and said they were also spending a lot of time 21 01:19.940 --> 01:24.450 swiping on Tinder, but they all have the same problem, very few matches. 22 01:25.050 --> 01:28.710 So this got me really curious, and I did a bit of Googling. 23 01:29.010 --> 01:32.730 It turns out that Jason and my friends are actually not alone. 24 01:33.090 --> 01:35.880 It's not just them who's not getting enough swipes. 25 01:36.570 --> 01:41.550 I found a guy on Reddit who requested their data from Tinder and he posted his 26 01:41.550 --> 01:42.420 stats online. 27 01:42.900 --> 01:47.900 So apparently he only got a total of 110 matches out of 26,800 swipes over for 28 01:51.690 --> 01:55.200 four years, that's 0.41%. 29 01:55.500 --> 01:59.520 This poor lad has almost a better chance of winning the lottery at that rate. 30 02:00.090 --> 02:01.680 And this is not just a one off. 31 02:01.710 --> 02:06.690 I found another guy who posted his tender stats and this guy did a little bit 32 02:06.690 --> 02:07.710 better, um, 33 02:07.740 --> 02:12.740 where he got 133 matches out of 12,631 swipes. 34 02:13.500 --> 02:17.340 So basically just one match for every a hundred swipes. 35 02:18.090 --> 02:22.380 All of the swiping means that they must've spent a lot of time inside the app as 36 02:22.380 --> 02:23.213 well. 37 02:23.340 --> 02:28.320 And I looked around for Tinder stats that they give their investors to show how 38 02:28.320 --> 02:32.700 great their user engagement is and why they're worth how much they were. 39 02:33.120 --> 02:36.390 So back in 2014, the New York times interview the company 40 02:36.450 --> 02:40.680 and they said that users login about 11 times per day 41 02:41.040 --> 02:44.100 and men spend around 7.2 minutes per session 42 02:44.400 --> 02:47.670 and women spend about 8.5 minutes per session 43 02:47.970 --> 02:52.230 cause we're a bit more picky with a total average daily engagement time of 44 02:52.230 --> 02:54.090 around 90 minutes. 45 02:54.570 --> 02:59.560 That's one and a half hours of swiping per day. That's crazy. 46 03:00.340 --> 03:03.880 I didn't know that much about Tinder, but after all this research, 47 03:03.940 --> 03:08.440 it gave me an idea. What if Jason didn't have to do all this wiping manually. 48 03:08.560 --> 03:12.850 What if he could just write a program that would automate this whole process and 49 03:12.850 --> 03:15.220 swipe for him? Long story short, 50 03:15.280 --> 03:18.580 I introduced Jason to selenium and Python, 51 03:18.910 --> 03:22.870 and now he's happily married with three children. Just kidding. 52 03:22.960 --> 03:26.680 Uhm, actually, Jason is still trialing our little program, 53 03:27.160 --> 03:31.210 but he's doing pretty well and much better than before and saving himself a lot 54 03:31.210 --> 03:33.460 of time. But most importantly, 55 03:33.520 --> 03:38.320 I think it makes for a fun project for us to practice our Python and selenium 56 03:38.320 --> 03:39.153 skills. 57 03:39.880 --> 03:44.830 Now the first time I realized that people actually want to automate this instead 58 03:44.830 --> 03:49.420 of choosing the people they want to swipe on is when I came across this product 59 03:49.540 --> 03:51.070 called the Tinder finger, 60 03:51.520 --> 03:55.780 which is something that you plug into your phone and it powers the finger to 61 03:55.780 --> 03:57.340 just keep swiping right 62 03:57.730 --> 04:02.730 which basically means I'm liking everybody until somebody likes you back 63 04:03.400 --> 04:07.390 and then you've got a match and you can chat with them instead of endlessly 64 04:07.390 --> 04:09.820 swiping right. In fact, 65 04:09.910 --> 04:12.910 I found a whole bunch of YouTube videos out there of people building 66 04:12.910 --> 04:15.190 contraptions to swipe for them. 67 04:15.880 --> 04:20.440 So we're going to try and create this only using software more specifically 68 04:20.470 --> 04:25.120 using Python and selenium. Now just the word of warning. 69 04:25.330 --> 04:27.460 If you are going to be swiping right on Tinder, 70 04:27.460 --> 04:31.060 it might be worth telling your other half about it just in case they 71 04:31.060 --> 04:34.630 accidentally find you on Tinder through the corner of their eye 72 04:34.630 --> 04:39.520 and you end up in some sort of bad situation where they really get angry at you. 73 04:40.300 --> 04:43.270 Also, I know that you might not be looking for a date right now 74 04:43.300 --> 04:46.030 or you might have your doubts about signing up to a dating app 75 04:46.030 --> 04:50.050 using your real name and photo just to practice some Python programming. 76 04:50.470 --> 04:52.450 In that case, you can try a website called 77 04:52.480 --> 04:56.980 thispersondoesnotexist.com to auto-generate some profile pictures for you. 78 04:57.340 --> 04:58.270 These images, 79 04:58.270 --> 05:03.270 every time you refresh is an image that's generated by a neural network using 80 05:03.400 --> 05:07.150 machine learning. And these are not real people's faces, 81 05:07.450 --> 05:11.380 but they look pretty real to me anyways. And you could in fact, 82 05:11.380 --> 05:15.070 use this profile for this auto Tinder swiping project. 83 05:15.880 --> 05:17.800 Pick somebody, sign up to Tinder, 84 05:18.310 --> 05:23.310 and then we're going to use selenium to automate the entire process by swiping 85 05:24.010 --> 05:27.730 on the Tinder website. This is what it looks like. 86 05:28.630 --> 05:31.120 Your bot is going to log in using Facebook. 87 05:32.620 --> 05:37.620 And then it's going to click on all the things that needs to be clicked so that 88 05:38.260 --> 05:40.990 you can actually reveal the buttons for swiping. 89 05:42.250 --> 05:46.540 And then it just swipes through everybody. And once it hits a match, 90 05:46.780 --> 05:47.830 that's going to be a popup. 91 05:47.950 --> 05:52.900 So it's going to click on back to Tinder and continue swiping. Now, 92 05:52.900 --> 05:56.470 remember that Tinder has a maximum of a hundred swipes per day. 93 05:56.560 --> 06:00.470 So unless upgrade to one of that paid tiers your bot is only going to work on a 94 06:00.470 --> 06:04.340 hundred swipes per day, no matter how much you're automated. 95 06:04.760 --> 06:08.390 But I'm sure you're a busy person saving your hundred swipes is probably 96 06:08.390 --> 06:10.070 already worth creating the bot. 97 06:10.580 --> 06:14.210 And if you're somebody who's on Tinder premium or whatever it is they call it, 98 06:14.570 --> 06:18.290 then you could actually continue swiping all day. Now, 99 06:18.320 --> 06:22.550 if you are somebody who doesn't want to hurt anybody's feelings by auto matching 100 06:22.550 --> 06:26.570 with them using a Tinder bot like the one that we're about to write, 101 06:26.930 --> 06:31.930 then feel free to complete the challenge just by hitting dislike on everyone so 102 06:32.090 --> 06:33.980 that you don't match with anybody. 103 06:34.910 --> 06:37.580 So that's the project that we're going to be building today. 104 06:37.970 --> 06:39.860 And if you head over to the next lesson, we can get 105 06:39.880 --> 06:43.120 started with the step by step challenges.