Let’s use our Selenium automation skills for something fun: building a bot to play the classic “Cookie Clicker” game.
Step 1: Setup and Target Elements
First, we need to open the game and find the IDs of the elements we want to click.
- The main cookie has an ID of
cookie. - The upgrades (Cursor, Grandma, etc.) have IDs like
buyCursor,buyGrandma.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
import time
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()))
driver.get("https.orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/")
# Wait for the language selector
time.sleep(5)
driver.find_element(By.ID, "langSelect-EN").click()
time.sleep(2)
# Find the key elements
cookie = driver.find_element(By.ID, "bigCookie")Step 2: The Main Loop
We’ll create an infinite loop that clicks the cookie, and then occasionally checks if we can afford an upgrade.
# A simple loop to click 100 times
for _ in range(100):
cookie.click()
# Check if we can buy a "Cursor"
try:
cursor = driver.find_element(By.ID, "buyCursor")
cursor.click()
print("Bought a cursor!")
except:
print("Can't afford a cursor yet...")
time.sleep(1) # Wait a second
driver.quit() # Close the botChallenge
Can you make this bot smarter?
- Put the
cookie.click()in awhile Trueloop. - Inside the loop, check the text of the
buyCursorelement. If it doesn’t have the “disabled” class, click it!
