Wednesday, October 1, 2014

New login page fix

Sorry that I've not been active very much, life has taken a front seat to coding. New job, 4 year old and a 1 year old, some racing...

The sole purpose of this app is to create money out of thin air for you, for free.  Judging by the barrage of communication after this latest page change, it seems to be doing just that for a lot of people. I'll just take this opportunity to do the obligatory "My kid is waiting patiently for me to read her stories before bed and I'm here updating this app for you guys so please don't forget that I have a bunch of donate options on my blog in case you're feeling  generous" post. If direct donation isn't in the cards, please use this link to go to Amazon and buy yourself something nice (I get a small kickback from any purchases you make within that browse session).

:)

Anyway, I think I've got the new login page worked out. Somebody give it a try and let me know.

Thanks for all the support guys!

-B

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

May Tuesdays Double Points

Just added double May Tuesday points for 2014 to the BingR. Download the newest version (0.1.0.28) and replace your current exe to get the double points this month!

Thanks to Khord for pointing this out to me - I'd missed it since I have the BingR running overnight I never even see the new deals :)

Sunday, March 2, 2014

March double searches

Just set BingR to do double searches Mondays in March (same code that I used for December Sunday double credits). Get the newest version for this to work :)

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Enhanced account state checking

If you have chosen to do the daily offers BingR will also use the data it's already downloading to get the daily links to determine the state of your account. I've noticed that sometimes Bing will just delete your Bing account but not the live account. This results in a particular set of data that I've set BingR to detect. If you do have an account that meets these criteria you'll see this message in your PointsPerAccount.txt file:

02/20/2014-08:28:14 - emailaddress@gmail.com Dashboard data DOWNLOAD succeeded but READ failed. This account MIGHT be blocked. You might want to check it with the Chckr to be sure. Skipping Daily offers and progress logging

If you see this message, visit that account and you'll probably see a "Join Bing" message where your dashboard should be.  I think this happens when you create an account using a referral link and then create another account using that SAME referral link on the SAME IP address. I'm not 100% sure this is the case, but to be safe you should always make your new accounts from fresh clean IPs.

Friday, February 14, 2014

Array bug squashed?

I believe I've squashed that "array variable has incorrect number of subscripts" error. It's been hiding in plain sight all along... I also added in some more descriptive logging in the PointsPerAccount file for failures. That way at least you'll know your account RAN even if you don't know how many points it has.

These error were caused, from what I can tell, by either unresponsive servers on Microsoft's side, an intermittent internet connection on your side or by an account being blocked by Microsoft. Blocked accounts will log into the dashboard but won't display any data. In the logging I've spelled out for  you when an account meets these criteria so you can go check it to see if you need to verify it or toss it. See my post on how to not get banned for help on that decision.

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Small bugfixes

Some little fixes here and there to help out the daily link clicker and emailing feature.

Friday, February 7, 2014

Anti-ban advice

**Update: 3/132014 - Since I started using the steps outlined here I've redeemed 20 times (8 accounts) with zero bans or delays**

While the BingR is the most human of any of the bots (realistic logging in, realistic searching) you can still get banned because of several things. I'll try to address what I know of those things here so, no matter what Bing bot you're using you'll have the best chance to get your awards. I'll try to keep this post updated.

How I think they pass out bans

  • Bing can easily know your IP.
    • This means they'll know if you're coming in from behind the same router. They know your outside 'routable' IP, not an internal one. To see what your IP is google 'what is my IP' and google will show you. If you want to get a new IP to either run a new batch of 5 accounts OR to redeem (see below) your options are to either turn off your internet MODEM (not router although they may be the same device) and wait to see if you get a new IP (DSL=good chance, Cable=bad chance) or logon to another wifi network.
  • Bing can do a simple check for any accounts that are named similarly. If you have similarly named accounts accessing Bing from the same address you're on the short list to get banned. Also if your accounts have dissimilar names BUT all your passwords are similar/the same that's the same type of simple search to bust you. 
  • Bing bans happen when you redeem, NOT when you search (usually).
    • Bing doesn't mind you searching on their network. This just increases their 'we're as good as Google' stuff. The more searches the better. However, paying out gift cards is another matter.
  • Do NOT use Microsoft Outlook (hotmail, live, outlook) emails. These get "blocked' (not banned) like crazy sauce. 
    • If you're already using one you can keep using it but start making backups (see below) as time and situation permits. 
  • DO be sure to record all the info you use for your account info. Street name, phone number, etc. 
  • Be prepared - slowly create new accounts and leave them dormant. Do this from a fresh IP, then just let the account lie. Bing seems to ban new accounts more frequently than established accounts. 
  • When creating new accounts:
    • Verify the account (from the blue Microsoft login.live page. It's a white link at the top). If you don't do this, your chances of getting a block go WAY up. It'll only take a second - do it!
    • Fill in all the Account Info! Address, phone, etc. Do it when you crate the account b/c it's a PITA to do it when you want to redeem. 
  • Even though you CAN use more than 5 accounts in my bot I'm not recommending that you do that right now. If you do have more than 5 you should have some way to switch IP addresses between each set of 5 (private VPN, proxies, etc.).

If you're going to redeem a card, here is what you want to do.
  • DO NOT search with the account for at least 24 hours Bing Time (that's Pacific time, US).
    • This means if you live in Iowa and you stop searching at 7 pm and wait till 7pm the next day you've NOT gone a full Bing day. Start your 24hr timer at 9pm Pacific time.
  • Redeem from a 'fresh' IP
    • Do the redemption from an IP you've not searched Bing from. This may be difficult - you may need to go to a coffee shop or something. 
    • Hell, if you're at a fresh IP you might as well create a new account and let it sit dormant so you can use it when one of your accounts gets banned. 
If you do get banned:
  • You better know all the info you gave for the account. Every stitch. If you don't know this info, do not contact them. The account is a total loss
  • If you know the info, you have to make a choice. If you call them and they believe you, you get the $5. If you call them and it doesn't work expect increased scrutiny on the IP (and the other accounts) you've been searching from. 
  • Personally I don't contact them, if they don't send the card I just toss it and roll in another one. 


Tuesday, February 4, 2014

BingR now notifies you when you accounts are ready!

I've added 2 features that will help you track your accounts without having to login to them. Please note that both these features REQUIRE that you have the "Daily Offers" enabled (because that is what parses the rewards dashboard...). I don't know why you wouldn't want the Daily offer enabled - it can pay off big especially this month (February) - I've had a few accounts get 200 extra credits!

The first is the BingR will add a line to the text file "PointsPerAccount.txt" every time it logs into an account that will include the date, your Available credits (before today's run) and your lifetime credits. This way you can watch your account balances from one file!

The second is that BingR will send you an email (to an address you choose, not necessarily the rewards ones) when your accounts crests a certain number of credits (you decide - default is 525). The email will include the account, computer it's running on and the number of credits.

The new settings.ini locations for these are:
[0DoNOTEmailMeWhenReadyToRedeem1YESEmailMe]
Contact=1
[YourEmailAddressICanUseWhenAnAccountIsReady]
ContactEmail=MyRealEmailAddressThatIActuallyCheck@gmail.com
[AmountOfCreditsNecessaryForMeToNotifyYou]
Threshold=525

Monday, February 3, 2014

the BingR now gets your Daily Offers!!!

I worked out a way (kinda ghetto) to get all the daily offers for each account. Works in Chrome and IE. I'll refine it over the coming days but I wanted to get this version out there ASAP!

Go download it now - there is a new setting in the ini file called "Daily Offers". 1 = yes (default).

Enjoy guys and gals!

Trouble with scheduling?

This weekend I built up a desktop from some old crappy bits in my garage and put a PCI wifi card in it. Lo and behold, scheduling on it was crap - it would totally screw up the first 1 or 2 accounts until the monitor finally woke up and then it would work like a charm.

So, I wrote a monitor wake routine into the header of the program and, voila', she's raking in the Bing credits! Scheduling should work much better now (especially if you have a shitty computer built from garage bits!).


Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Mobile Only Added

So, I know a lot of you guys have your routines where you get your regular Bing points and you don't wanna use the BingR to get your main 15-30 daily points. HOWEVER, BingR is the only way to get your mobile 10 extra points in an automated fashion easily.

SO - to accommodate you kids I've put in a few loops that'll check if you have mobile checked but NOT regular OR Facebook. If that is what you've selected (and you have Chrome picked because remember mobile and IE don't work) it'll just run your accounts for mobile.

So, if you want to just do mobile ONLY with BingR

  • Add emails to appropriate section(s) [MicrosoftRewardsEmails] or [FacebookRewardsEmails]
  • UseMicrosoftRewards=0 AND UseFacebookRewards=0
  • Mobile=1
I also did some tweaking to the login paths so you'll see a little different pages popping up at each login.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Upgrades and Bug Fixes

I added a settings.ini parameter called "SLOW". Set this to 1 if you're on a crappy computer and it'll wait longer between login checks and searches.

I changed the way the login works. Now instead of sending the characters 1 at a time it'll send the entire string at once. This should cut down on missed emails/passwords

I added bing-pong back to the Chckr so if you do miss some searches you can use that tool if you like.

Monday, January 20, 2014

Just uploaded a slightly tweaked version of BingR. Just so you know, logging OUT of Bing is really hard. They have some persistent cookies or something. I've changed the logout method slightly to try to get past an issue a few people were having where BingR would popup a windows shutdown dialogue. I *think* that was because I was capturing the window handle incorrectly. Hit me up on reddit, twitter or here with your feedback.

Thanks guys!

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Facebook support added

Whew - Facebook sucks. I had to do a pretty major revamp of the settings.ini structure so anyone who has been using this should delete their current settings.ini file and let BingR create a new one. Remember that I'm saving your emails in emailbackup.txt so you don't have to re-do them all.

I got Facebook working but note that it is without error checking so if it misses your login you'll have to re-launch the BingR. I'll work on error checking at some point later but from what I saw it'll be hard to accomplish. Mobile does work however (once again, Chrome only) for Facebook logins even though it's also a pretty fugly method.

I managed to get IE 10 and IE 11 to both work by checking versions. I would be able to get older versions to work but I'd need y'all's help with that since I don't have access to them (and they suck it anyway).

I also added a super quick popup at the beginning of the program that'll show you the ini settings. You can hit Play/Pause or the Pause key to stop it from disappearing (2 seconds) so you can peruse your settings. If you do make adjustments you'd need to restart BingR.

ChckR good for Facebook now!
NOTE:  the ChckR doesn't support Facebook yet - just regular logins. I'll get around to that soon.

I'll post a new helpfile for ini config soon

10 extra Bing points per day!

I've found a way to automagically spoof the user agent so that it seems like the BingR is sending from an iPhone.  That way, you'll get the 10 extra mobile browsing points every fricking day! A little quick math...
10 points a day x 365 days = 3650 points / 475 points = 7.68 Amazon $5 cards for each account or $38.42. Say you're running 5 accounts, that's a grand total of and extra $192.10 a year just for using my awesome free program! Thanks to Nutshell38 for bringing this to my attention!

What happens:

BingR runs like normal, gets your pre-set number of searches (15, 20, 30 points) for all your accounts. It then rolls back through your accounts but from a 'mobile' browser and does 20 more searches for your 10 extra daily mobile points! I split the desktop and mobile searches up so it looks like you did desktop searches for a while then wandered off and did mobile from your phone :)

What you need to do:

Use the Chrome option (mobile spoofing doesn't work in I.E. for this). If you're already a BingR user (who isn't?), you'll need to add this to the end of your settings.ini:

[DoMobileSearches0forno1foryes]
Mobile=1

OR just delete your settings.ini and let BingR make you a new one. If you decide to delete you'll need to re-add your email addresses (I've stored them in a text file called 'emailbackup.txt' in the BingR folder for just such an emergency)

What you could do if you wanted to (hint hint)

Donate a little cashbitcoin or some codes


Monday, January 6, 2014

Chckr Updated with Bing-Pong Link!

As I was using the checker I found that if I did locate an account that had missed it's searches I'd just go ahead and launch Bing-Pong.com and wrap them up that way. I decided to simply include that in the checker to make it that much easier! See below for what the checker launches for each account now...

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Login Error Checking added

I added a loop to verify that you've actually logged into an account. It'll try each account 3 times (I can change this if y'all have a strong reason to not try 3 (more or less)). If it is unsuccessful after 3 tries then the program will write the failure to errorlog.txt and move on to your next account. If you're getting failures you might want to try these things:

  • fix whatever you've f'd up in the settings.ini file
  • figure out why your internet is so damn slow
  • wait for Microsoft to get their shit together