Bing-Rewards

A CLI app to perform Bing searches

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• Features
• Installation
• Dependencies
• Usage
• Options
• 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 dependencies (pynput)
• Fine tune delay and set browser executable with config at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or %APPDATA% on Windows
• Not intended as an automated or headless service. Simply assists with what would regularly be a manual task.

[!Warning] Here Be Dragons This was originally created in a different age, when Bing & MS was much simpler and less bloated with AI slop tools. Users have reported a wide variety of success on whether this method works at all with the new systems. See some of the pinned or closed issues for reports from others that may improve success. I maintain the code in a working state as an excersie in Python packaging, but do not personally use the utility, and cannot guarantee this method will even generate points anymore!

Installation

Bing-rewards is a CLI application distributed on PyPI. You can install it however you prefer to manage Python applications on your system. I recommend pipx or uv.

With pipx or pip

pipx install bing-rewards

With uv

uv tool install bing-rewards

These commands will make the executable bing-rewards available on your PATH. Look below or try the --help flag to see detailed usage.

[!Tip] Use a virtual environment or pipx to avoid polluting your global package space with executable apps. See: pipx

Locally

Clone the repo and install locally. See: Developing

Dependencies

• At least Python 3.10

• pynput (installed with package). Used to control keypresses and type Bing search URLS.

  [!Warning] Bing-Rewards 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)). See also: "browser-path" option 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"

Run searches sequentially across multiple Chrome profiles

$ bing-rewards --profile "Default" "Profile 1" "Profile 2"

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.

[!Warning] 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

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.

Config

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

The default user agents that are passed to the Chrome process are below. You may want to experiment with different user agents, or update versions accordingly. Alternate user agents can be set in the config file.

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/.

Their script provided the original inspiration but has since been completely rewritten and expanded. The original author was contacted for the source of keywords, but declined to respond

Development

This project is managed by the uv toolchain. Ensure you have uv installed on your system. This is probably available in your package manager, or can be installed with pip or pipx

Then, fork the repository on Github and clone to your machine. The first invocation of any uv command will install the bing-rewards package in editable mode, with the dev dependencies (ruff and pre-commit) automatically.

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

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

Feel free to open a PR against the master branch with additional features or fixes!