1 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:04,770 Hey guys, welcome to Day 50 of 100 Days of Code. You've made it. 2 00:00:04,770 --> 00:00:08,430 It's half way. You've gone so far from the beginning. 3 00:00:08,820 --> 00:00:13,050 And today I've got a special project just to celebrate that. We're going to be 4 00:00:13,050 --> 00:00:15,450 building a auto tinder bot. 5 00:00:16,170 --> 00:00:19,350 So for those of you guys who don't know what Tinder is 6 00:00:19,410 --> 00:00:21,360 and I'm not sure if I believe you, 7 00:00:22,470 --> 00:00:26,520 but Tinder is basically an app which helps people date online. 8 00:00:26,850 --> 00:00:30,450 The idea is that you see somebody's profile, you hit like, 9 00:00:30,540 --> 00:00:33,060 and if they like your profile as well, 10 00:00:33,300 --> 00:00:37,500 then you've made a match and you can chat to each other and potentially set up a 11 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:41,100 date. Super simple and it's probably one of the top 12 00:00:41,130 --> 00:00:42,870 most downloaded apps currently. 13 00:00:43,530 --> 00:00:48,530 So there's a bit of a backstory about how this project came about. A few weeks 14 00:00:48,660 --> 00:00:49,050 ago, 15 00:00:49,050 --> 00:00:53,940 I was at a barbecue and some friends started talking about how they were so 16 00:00:53,940 --> 00:00:58,260 frustrated with online dating. One of my friends, let's call him 17 00:00:58,410 --> 00:01:03,410 Jason says that he spends about two hours a day swiping and chatting on Tinder. 18 00:01:04,739 --> 00:01:07,200 But even after all of that time and effort, 19 00:01:07,320 --> 00:01:10,020 he just doesn't end up getting any dates. 20 00:01:10,710 --> 00:01:15,180 And at a time I remember looking around and pretty much all the boys in the 21 00:01:15,180 --> 00:01:19,920 group actually agreed with him and said they were also spending a lot of time 22 00:01:19,940 --> 00:01:24,450 swiping on Tinder, but they all have the same problem, very few matches. 23 00:01:25,050 --> 00:01:28,710 So this got me really curious, and I did a bit of Googling. 24 00:01:29,010 --> 00:01:32,730 It turns out that Jason and my friends are actually not alone. 25 00:01:33,090 --> 00:01:35,880 It's not just them who's not getting enough swipes. 26 00:01:36,570 --> 00:01:41,550 I found a guy on Reddit who requested their data from Tinder and he posted his 27 00:01:41,550 --> 00:01:42,420 stats online. 28 00:01:42,900 --> 00:01:47,900 So apparently he only got a total of 110 matches out of 26,800 swipes over for 29 00:01:51,690 --> 00:01:55,200 four years, that's 0.41%. 30 00:01:55,500 --> 00:01:59,520 This poor lad has almost a better chance of winning the lottery at that rate. 31 00:02:00,090 --> 00:02:01,680 And this is not just a one off. 32 00:02:01,710 --> 00:02:06,690 I found another guy who posted his tender stats and this guy did a little bit 33 00:02:06,690 --> 00:02:07,710 better, um, 34 00:02:07,740 --> 00:02:12,740 where he got 133 matches out of 12,631 swipes. 35 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:17,340 So basically just one match for every a hundred swipes. 36 00:02:18,090 --> 00:02:22,380 All of the swiping means that they must've spent a lot of time inside the app as 37 00:02:22,380 --> 00:02:23,213 well. 38 00:02:23,340 --> 00:02:28,320 And I looked around for Tinder stats that they give their investors to show how 39 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:32,700 great their user engagement is and why they're worth how much they were. 40 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,390 So back in 2014, the New York times interview the company 41 00:02:36,450 --> 00:02:40,680 and they said that users login about 11 times per day 42 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,100 and men spend around 7.2 minutes per session 43 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,670 and women spend about 8.5 minutes per session 44 00:02:47,970 --> 00:02:52,230 cause we're a bit more picky with a total average daily engagement time of 45 00:02:52,230 --> 00:02:54,090 around 90 minutes. 46 00:02:54,570 --> 00:02:59,560 That's one and a half hours of swiping per day. That's crazy. 47 00:03:00,340 --> 00:03:03,880 I didn't know that much about Tinder, but after all this research, 48 00:03:03,940 --> 00:03:08,440 it gave me an idea. What if Jason didn't have to do all this wiping manually. 49 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:12,850 What if he could just write a program that would automate this whole process and 50 00:03:12,850 --> 00:03:15,220 swipe for him? Long story short, 51 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,580 I introduced Jason to selenium and Python, 52 00:03:18,910 --> 00:03:22,870 and now he's happily married with three children. Just kidding. 53 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:26,680 Uhm, actually, Jason is still trialing our little program, 54 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:31,210 but he's doing pretty well and much better than before and saving himself a lot 55 00:03:31,210 --> 00:03:33,460 of time. But most importantly, 56 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:38,320 I think it makes for a fun project for us to practice our Python and selenium 57 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:39,153 skills. 58 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:44,830 Now the first time I realized that people actually want to automate this instead 59 00:03:44,830 --> 00:03:49,420 of choosing the people they want to swipe on is when I came across this product 60 00:03:49,540 --> 00:03:51,070 called the Tinder finger, 61 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:55,780 which is something that you plug into your phone and it powers the finger to 62 00:03:55,780 --> 00:03:57,340 just keep swiping right 63 00:03:57,730 --> 00:04:02,730 which basically means I'm liking everybody until somebody likes you back 64 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:07,390 and then you've got a match and you can chat with them instead of endlessly 65 00:04:07,390 --> 00:04:09,820 swiping right. In fact, 66 00:04:09,910 --> 00:04:12,910 I found a whole bunch of YouTube videos out there of people building 67 00:04:12,910 --> 00:04:15,190 contraptions to swipe for them. 68 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:20,440 So we're going to try and create this only using software more specifically 69 00:04:20,470 --> 00:04:25,120 using Python and selenium. Now just the word of warning. 70 00:04:25,330 --> 00:04:27,460 If you are going to be swiping right on Tinder, 71 00:04:27,460 --> 00:04:31,060 it might be worth telling your other half about it just in case they 72 00:04:31,060 --> 00:04:34,630 accidentally find you on Tinder through the corner of their eye 73 00:04:34,630 --> 00:04:39,520 and you end up in some sort of bad situation where they really get angry at you. 74 00:04:40,300 --> 00:04:43,270 Also, I know that you might not be looking for a date right now 75 00:04:43,300 --> 00:04:46,030 or you might have your doubts about signing up to a dating app 76 00:04:46,030 --> 00:04:50,050 using your real name and photo just to practice some Python programming. 77 00:04:50,470 --> 00:04:52,450 In that case, you can try a website called 78 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,980 thispersondoesnotexist.com to auto-generate some profile pictures for you. 79 00:04:57,340 --> 00:04:58,270 These images, 80 00:04:58,270 --> 00:05:03,270 every time you refresh is an image that's generated by a neural network using 81 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:07,150 machine learning. And these are not real people's faces, 82 00:05:07,450 --> 00:05:11,380 but they look pretty real to me anyways. And you could in fact, 83 00:05:11,380 --> 00:05:15,070 use this profile for this auto Tinder swiping project. 84 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:17,800 Pick somebody, sign up to Tinder, 85 00:05:18,310 --> 00:05:23,310 and then we're going to use selenium to automate the entire process by swiping 86 00:05:24,010 --> 00:05:27,730 on the Tinder website. This is what it looks like. 87 00:05:28,630 --> 00:05:31,120 Your bot is going to log in using Facebook. 88 00:05:32,620 --> 00:05:37,620 And then it's going to click on all the things that needs to be clicked so that 89 00:05:38,260 --> 00:05:40,990 you can actually reveal the buttons for swiping. 90 00:05:42,250 --> 00:05:46,540 And then it just swipes through everybody. And once it hits a match, 91 00:05:46,780 --> 00:05:47,830 that's going to be a popup. 92 00:05:47,950 --> 00:05:52,900 So it's going to click on back to Tinder and continue swiping. Now, 93 00:05:52,900 --> 00:05:56,470 remember that Tinder has a maximum of a hundred swipes per day. 94 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:00,470 So unless upgrade to one of that paid tiers your bot is only going to work on a 95 00:06:00,470 --> 00:06:04,340 hundred swipes per day, no matter how much you're automated. 96 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,390 But I'm sure you're a busy person saving your hundred swipes is probably 97 00:06:08,390 --> 00:06:10,070 already worth creating the bot. 98 00:06:10,580 --> 00:06:14,210 And if you're somebody who's on Tinder premium or whatever it is they call it, 99 00:06:14,570 --> 00:06:18,290 then you could actually continue swiping all day. Now, 100 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:22,550 if you are somebody who doesn't want to hurt anybody's feelings by auto matching 101 00:06:22,550 --> 00:06:26,570 with them using a Tinder bot like the one that we're about to write, 102 00:06:26,930 --> 00:06:31,930 then feel free to complete the challenge just by hitting dislike on everyone so 103 00:06:32,090 --> 00:06:33,980 that you don't match with anybody. 104 00:06:34,910 --> 00:06:37,580 So that's the project that we're going to be building today. 105 00:06:37,970 --> 00:06:39,860 And if you head over to the next lesson, we can get 106 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,120 started with the step by step challenges.