"Hello coders! You may have come across this account on Codeforces that has solved over 8000 problems and is on the top rank list of solved problems. Obviously, they are mostly bots. As a curious novice coder, I also wanted to see how I could make such a bot. When I saw their submissions, all were copied. So, I decided to create my own bot using Python and Selenium,here is my bot Traverser_Steal69. It was a great learning experience to delve into web scraping and Selenium. You can find the code in the provided link. Thanks for taking the time to read
Why there are 100 unsolved problems?
recommend to also create a github repo, just for fun as it'd be easier to access for other non-cp coders
BTW as a persn who has been in backend dev, and for a few things also faced selenium and web scraping, I also always thought how do these bots work but due to being busy for OI i never felt the courage to go and code one, so... thanks for making this problem go away from me :)
Hey I added a GitHub repo too, new version uses purely request and scrapping,no need of selenium
Nice, thank you for informing me of this, I'll check it out soon
I suggest Codeforces remove that senseless problemset standing since 1) it is allowed to copy paste other peoples codes outside contests and 2) the top mostly consists of bots
even if the standing is useless from a competition metric it is still interesting and useful to compare with ur friends or idols