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• Features
• Install
• Usage
• Config
• Development

• 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 a automated or headless service. Simply assists with what would regularly be a manual task.

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!

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

pipx install bing-rewards

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

Recommended: Use a virtual environment or pipx to avoid polluting your global package path with executable apps. See: pipx

Download the latest release wheel and install with pip locally.

• At least Python 3.10

• pynput (installed with package). Used to control keypresses and type Bing search URLS. ⚠️: 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)). Also see the "browser-path" key 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.

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.

⚠️Known Issue: 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

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.

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.

If interested, the following user agents are passed to Chrome using the --user-agent argument. These are clearly defined at the top of bing-rewards.py.

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

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/.

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

This project uses hatch as the build backend for dependency management and packaging.

pipx install hatch

Then, fork the repo, clone and install the project and dependencies with hatch env create.

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

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

Feel free to open a PR with additional features or fixes.