How I automatized tinder and what happened next

I wanted to automate tinder to swipe right all the time automatically to see what happened. 

As a Computer Science student this was quite easy to do 

As you may know, tinder has a web version, tinder.com

If you go to that website, and open the console by doing CTRL+SHIFT+I and then clicking on “console” we can insert some Javascript code in there to automate this action.

This is the code we need: (it may vary depending on the version of tinder’s website)

x = setInterval(

function(){

var elem = document.getElementsByClassName("recsGamepad__button--like");

elem[0].click()

}, 200)

This code defines a callback function (a function that calls itself after a certain amount of time, in this case, 200 milliseconds) 

This function takes the element “element” which is the like button (after we find it by “getting element by class name”) 

What we do is that we click “element” every time we call the function and that way we swipe right once every 200 milliseconds. 

I tried this and it works just like I wanted. If I wanted to change it for future updates of the website I’d just have to change the class name which is the only thing likely to change. 

What I realized is that tinder is shit and I ended up deleting it shortly after because it’s an important waste of time. 

I could probably try to explain to you why but either you already know why or you won’t believe it until you experience it yourself.

Either way… Good luck!