Five layers, cheapest first: which accounts a configuration produces, the
flags each one hands Edge, the run loop's ordering and exit codes, one
account failing every way it can without ending the batch, and two real
Edge profiles holding two independent, persistent identities.
Layers 1 to 4 need nothing installed beyond selenium and run in a second.
Layer 5 starts Edge twice and reaches bing.com, so it is opt in behind
--browser. It keys on bing.com's own MUID rather than an injected cookie:
a cookie added through webdriver is not written to the profile the way a
Set-Cookie is, so it would prove nothing about a sign-in surviving.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019PWUtibJn81iDbxZ4hzeU3
Win32 strips a trailing dot off a path component and python's normalisation
does not, so such a name is not the directory it reads as. REWARDS_ACCOUNTS=...
resolved to data-dir itself, which is the default profile the resolved-path
check was added to keep named accounts out of, and personal,personal. passed
the duplicate check as two entries while sharing one profile on disk. Both
break the one-directory-per-account guarantee this module exists for.
Reject the shape by name, and resolve with realpath rather than abspath so a
link or a junction under data-dir is followed to where it really goes.
Only SessionNotCreatedException was isolated. Every other way an account can
fail reached main() and took the accounts after it with them: a driver that
will not start for another reason, an unwritable profile directory, the first
page not loading, the browser dying mid-run, or quit() raising because it was
already gone. With REWARDS_ACCOUNTS=one,two,three and the middle one failing,
three never ran and main() exited on a traceback instead of an exit code.
Catch it around run_account, report it the way a failed task is reported, and
carry on. KeyboardInterrupt is left alone so Ctrl-C still stops the run. The
quit() in run_account is guarded too, so a tidy-up that raises no longer hides
the failure it was tidying up after.
Four bugs that reached real runs are covered: a point value the parser could not read, the wrong row of the breakdown panel, a container that looks right but is empty, and a label that matches two different buttons.
Stdlib unittest with small fakes for the selenium calls the selectors make, so this adds no dependency and needs no browser. Run with python -m unittest discover -s tests.
The character check allowed "." and "..", which are made entirely of allowed
characters and still walk out of the directory, so the traversal guard only
stopped the cases containing a separator. Reject both by name and check the
resolved path against the profile root as well, since the character set
constrains the characters rather than where they point.
Also drop the MouseUtils and KeyboardUtils built in run_account and never
used, RewardsTaskUtils builds its own, along with the two imports that
leaves unused, and say "lowercased" in the no-source warning, which is what
the code returns.
visual_search.jpg is gitignored and excluded by .dockerignore, so the
container had no file at the path rewards_tasks.py uploads and the visual
search task was the one task that could not run in it. Bind mount it from
the project root, where src/random_image_for_visual_search.py writes it.
Also add the blank line the Logging heading needs to render.
complete_bing_daily_set indexed [0] [1] [2] on whatever wait_for_element returned first. The panel hydrates progressively, so that can be a single activity, and the task died with IndexError before touching the other two. Wait for the full set, fall back to what is there, and re-read per index since a click can re-render the panel.
read_search_points ran into the default 10s timeout because it starts after the earlier tasks navigated away, so the earn page re-renders from scratch first. That skipped the whole search task while points were still available.
Both change main.py and README.md, and three separate pull requests touching
the same entry point is worse for review than one. Resolved by keeping every
section of the README and folding the logging setup into the new multi-account
main, so the profile-in-use message from #35 is now a logger.error and uses
log_utils.exception_summary rather than repeating the truncation inline.
queries.py moves to logging with the rest of the runtime.
Both taken from TheNetsky/Microsoft-Rewards-Script, which packages a container
and handles several accounts. Approach only: that project is GPL-3.0 and this
one MIT, so no code crosses over.
**Accounts.** Rewards is per Microsoft account and the browser profile holds
the sign-in, so an account here is a profile directory. REWARDS_ACCOUNTS takes
a comma separated list and gives each its own directory under the configured
one. They run in sequence, and a profile that will not start is reported and
skipped rather than ending the run. Left unset, a run uses the single profile
exactly as before.
Names are validated rather than trusted: they become directory names, so
"../escape" is refused instead of quietly writing outside data-dir.
**Docker.** The image carries only what main.py actually reaches, selenium and
numpy. pygetwindow, keyboard, matplotlib and pygame are used solely by the
recording and visualisation scripts, and two of those are Windows-only, so
none of them belong in a container. msedgedriver is pinned at build time to
the Edge the image installed rather than to latest, which drifts from it
between releases.
QUERY_SOURCE defaults to trends in the image, so a container needs no Ollama
account and no model download at all.
That default turned out to require a fix. queries.py imported llm_utils at
module scope, which imports ollama, so a trends-only install still needed the
ollama package: exactly what running in a minimal image is good at exposing.
The import is now made inside the llm branch, and the wordlist fallback reads
nouns.txt directly rather than borrowing llm_utils.get_random_noun.
REWARDS_HEADLESS drives the headless flags. The window size is set explicitly
because the pointer code works in viewport coordinates and the default
headless window is small enough to put cards out of reach, which is the
MoveTargetOutOfBoundsException from #19. Verified on the host that
move_to_element and human_like_click both work headless before relying on it.
Verified in the built image: Edge 151.0.4129.107 with a driver of exactly the
same build, the trends feed reachable from inside, Edge driven to bing.com and
rewards.bing.com at 1920x1080, and REWARDS_ACCOUNTS producing separate profile
directories with traversal refused.
Idea taken from TheNetsky/Microsoft-Rewards-Script, which builds search terms
from public feeds rather than a model. No code from it: that project is
GPL-3.0 and this one is MIT, so only the approach crosses over.
The LLM has exactly two call sites here, both producing a short string to type
into Bing. Everything the dependency costs, an Ollama account, cloud usage and
the provider work in #15, is paid for search strings. Three keyless sources
answer the same question:
Google Trends RSS queries people are actually typing right now
Wikipedia most-read topic seeds when trends is unavailable
Bing autosuggest expands a seed into related queries
Autosuggest is what makes the chaining work. Asking Bing what follows a term
returns queries Bing already expects, which is nearer to what the prompt in
llm_utils was reaching for than a model guessing unaided.
Selected with QUERY_SOURCE=trends. The default stays llm, so no existing setup
changes. stdlib only, no new dependencies.
Measured against the LLM on the same cards from a live account:
card llm trends
airport parking best rates airport parking reservations reserve airport parking best rates
checking vs savings compare checking vs savings accounts compare checking savings account options
cruise deals best cruise deals and destinations cruise deals destinations
Verified live with OLLAMA_HOST pointed at a dead port, so nothing could reach
a model: five queries generated from feeds and three typed into Bing, each
landing on a real results page.
Every source degrades to an empty list rather than raising, and both entry
points fall back, to the trimmed task description and to nouns.txt. A search
that does not happen costs points; a run that dies costs the rest of the day.
check_selectors reports FAILED for two selectors that are fine.
The wait before them is satisfied by a placeholder. get_sidebar_section
returns the first section whose id starts with react-aria, and that section is
in the DOM as soon as the panel opens, holding a "Loading..." placeholder. So
`wait_until(get_sidebar_section() is not None)` returns immediately, and the
two selectors that read the panel's text then read "Loading..." and raise.
The report's own output shows it: the section that resolves OK has the text
"Loading...", and the two entries under it fail.
Before, on a healthy en-US account:
OK get_sidebar_section 'Loading...'
FAILED get_points_earned_from_searches_on_points_breakdown
FAILED get_close_button_on_points_breakdown
OK=10 ABSENT=1 FAILED=2
After:
OK get_sidebar_section "Points breakdown | Today's points | 480 | To"
OK get_points_earned_from_searches_on_points_breakdown (25, 25)
OK get_close_button_on_points_breakdown
OK=12 ABSENT=1 FAILED=0
This matters more than a cosmetic miscount. The README asks people to paste
this output into bug reports and says FAILED is what needs fixing, so a false
FAILED sends both the reporter and whoever triages it after selectors that
work. The bot itself was never affected, read_search_points reaches the same
selector through wait_for_element and so does wait.
Waiting on the content rather than the container keeps a genuine breakage
reporting FAILED; it just costs the timeout first.
Fixes#26.
`requires-python` was `>=3.14`. On anything older poetry declines to create an
environment, and it says so on stderr while leaving stdout empty. The README
tells the user to run `iex (poetry env activate)`, `iex` only sees stdout, and
PowerShell reports
Invoke-Expression : Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Command' because it
is null.
which points at `iex` rather than at the install that never happened. The
first reply on the issue guessed the reporter was missing `iex`, which is a
built-in alias, so the error is actively misleading.
3.14 looks stricter than anything the code needs. Every file in src/ compiles
on 3.10, no 3.13 or 3.14 only syntax appears anywhere in the tree, and the
full task set was run end to end on 3.12.10 against a live account with all
six tasks completing. The dependency graph agrees: numpy is the highest floor
in the lock at >=3.12, so 3.12 is where the real constraint sits.
Verified after the change on 3.12.10: `poetry install` creates the
environment, `poetry env activate` emits a real activation command instead of
nothing, `iex (poetry env activate)` activates in PowerShell, and every
dependency plus every module under src/ imports.
The lock is regenerated rather than left stale, since `requires-python` feeds
its content hash. The only substantive change is a typing_extensions marker
for python_version < 3.13; the package set is unchanged at 203. Regenerated
with poetry 2.4.1 to match the version that wrote the existing file.
The README gains the version bump and a short note on the failure, so anyone
who hits it while running an older Python can recognise it.
Follow-ups from running the conversion against a live account.
Tab open/close bookkeeping moves from info to debug. It was 19 of the 33
records in a full run, so the six task outcomes that are the point of the
summary were outnumbered three to one by tab handles and query strings. The
"could not close" case stays at warning, a tab that will not close is a real
problem rather than bookkeeping.
The [FAIL] summary moves into log_utils.exception_summary, which takes the
first line, drops the "(Session info: ...)" fragment and caps the result. A
selenium exception embeds the whole msedgedriver stacktrace in str(), and the
cap means a pathological message cannot push a screenful of text into one
record. The cut marker is ASCII because this can land on a Windows console
whose encoding cannot represent an ellipsis.
The suppressed-library list was checked rather than guessed: with the root
logger wide open, a real browser session plus one ollama call produced records
from httpx, httpcore, urllib3 and selenium only, and nothing else. That set is
already pinned. Worth noting selenium alone emits 45 records for a single page
load, so without the pinning the debug mode this PR recommends for bug reports
would be unusable.
Closes#14.
The runtime modules now log through the stdlib logging module. A new
log_utils.setup_logging is called once from main.py, and each module holds
its own logging.getLogger(__name__) so every line says which module it came
from.
The [INFO] and [WARNING] prefixes are gone, since the level field carries
that now. [OK], [SKIP] and [FAIL] stay in the message text: they are the
per-task outcome summary from complete_all_tasks rather than severities, and
folding them into the level would erase the run summary. They map to info,
warning and error, which is the one thing print could not express, a real
failure now sorts above a task the current UI variant simply does not ship.
Two things fall out of having levels at all:
- REWARDS_FARMER_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG attaches the traceback to every [FAIL],
which is the stack trace that bug reports keep having to be asked for.
- REWARDS_FARMER_LOG_FILE writes the same output to a file, so an unattended
run can be read after the fact.
Both are off by default, so a normal run looks the same as before apart from
the timestamp and level columns.
The [FAIL] summary keeps only the first line of the exception message. A
selenium exception carries the whole msedgedriver stacktrace inside str(),
tens of lines of it, which would turn one task into one screenful and make
the log file impossible to scan. The full detail is still there with the
traceback on debug.
The console stream is stdout rather than the StreamHandler default of stderr,
so anyone already redirecting stdout keeps getting the output there, and its
error handler is set to replace. Card descriptions are scraped from the page
and are not ASCII outside the en-US market, and the Windows console encoding
raises on them.
check_selectors.py, fitts_law.py and analyze_keypresses.py are left on print.
Their output is formatted report text, and prefixing every row of a
diagnostic table with a timestamp and a level makes it harder to read.
The card loop fired fixed 100px scroll events back to back with no pauses, which is the jumpy scrolling, and its while-not-in-viewport loop was unbounded, so a card that never fits the viewport completely would hang the run forever. The way back up unwound a counted number of steps, which lands wrong when the page height changes while cards update.
Scrolling is now wheel input with varying step sizes and short pauses, bounded, aimed at centering the target. The return reads the actual scroll position instead of counting.
searches_needed was computed once as (max - earned) // 5 and never re-checked. Two assumptions fail in practice: some markets award 3 points per search rather than 5, and the daily maximum itself is not stable, observed as 15, 30 and 60 on one account within a day with the counter resetting. The run therefore stopped around 18/30 and still reported success.
Search in rounds instead: measure, run a batch sized on the lower known rate, measure again, stop when the quota is full or a round gains nothing, and warn instead of claiming success when it is not filled.
Also give the ollama client a timeout and bound the empty-response retry, since both were unbounded and an unattended run hung for 14 minutes with 2.3 CPU-seconds. The bare while-not-response loop spins forever on empty responses.
scrollIntoView re-centered every element unconditionally and instantly, which is the page jump between the daily set and explore on bing. The pointer move now scrolls only when the element is actually outside the viewport, smoothly, and polls the rect until the async scroll settles before computing the path.
Visual search matches the full 'visual search streak' label. Plain 'visual search' can also hit a dashboard element that goes stale mid-interaction, and the guessed 'image search' needle is gone.
check_selectors.py walks every selector and prints what resolved, what is absent and what broke, along with browser, driver, page language and the earn section ids. Absent is a normal result for a task a variant does not ship. It completes no activities and claims nothing, so it is safe to run for a bug report.
complete_explore_on_bing_tasks now raises when the section is missing instead of returning quietly, which made complete_all_tasks print [OK] for a task that never ran.
The visible labels the lookups match on are collected in one Labels class. The selectors are market independent but still language dependent, and this makes that explicit and fixable in one place.
The pointer is moved to viewport coordinates, so an element below the fold produced a target outside the window and the driver raised MoveTargetOutOfBoundsException. Observed on the daily set opener during a scheduled run. Also clamps the bezier path to the viewport.
The daily set opener lives in the streaks section, not in a section of its own, so scoping the lookup to a dedicated section disabled the task on every layout. Match on 'daily set streak' instead, since 'daily set' also hits the level up entry.
Visual search keeps a positional fallback inside streaks because its label is not confirmed on layouts that ship it. Claim now prefers an exact label match so the 'Ready to claim' heading cannot win.
Absolute XPaths break outside en-US, where an extra exploreonbing section shifts every positional section index, so every task failed before it started.
Select by visible text, id suffix and visibility instead of position, take the visible copy of ids that are emitted twice for responsive layout, and raise NoSuchElementException for tasks a variant does not ship so the run skips them instead of aborting.
Ethan Stoner