Bing-Rewards

A CLI app to perform Bing searches

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• Features
• Install
• Usage
• Config
• Development

Features

• Enter random search queries into your browser a la Auto Hotkey.
• Use a mobile user agent to get mobile points (--mobile)
• Configurable number of searches with --count=
• Install as self-contained python application with minimal dependecies (pynput)
• Fine tune delay and set browser executable with config at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or %APPDATA% on Windows

Installation

With pipx or pip

pipx 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

From releases

Download the latest release wheel and install with pip locally.

Dependencies

• At least Python 3.10

• pynput (installed automatically). 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

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.

Options

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
--bing	Use this flag if Bing is already your default search engine. Bypasses constructing a bing.com URL
--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 ... <snip>",
    "mobile_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows Phone 10.0; Android 6.0.1) ... <snip>",
    "browser_path": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\BraveSoftware\\Brave-Browser\\Application\\brave.exe"
}

Delay timings are in seconds.
Note: the format has slightly changed in version >= 3.0, so delete and regenerate accordingly.

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/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edge/126.0.0.0

Mobile Edge Browser on Pixel 6 phone:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14; Pixel 6 Build/AP2A.240605.024) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36 Edge/121.0.2277.138

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 & Contribution

This project uses hatch as the build backend for dependency management and packaging.

pipx install hatch

Then, fork the repo, clone and install the project and dependencies with hatch env create.

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

Launch bing-rewards in the editable dev environment: hatch run bing-rewards --help

Feel free to open a PR with additional features or fixes.