Get more eyes on your GitHub work without hassle

TL;DR:

Correia-jpv / github-follow-bot

🤖 Automated follow/unfollow bot for GitHub. Follow from multiple sources. Choose which users to unfollow. Custom options to control bot speed and maximum actions.

Intro

So you want to have more people following your open source work, or maybe bring attention to some interesting and cool projects you have highlighted on your profile.
Perhaps, you want to show off more authority, or you just want to see that followers count grow bigger for the heck of it.

Well, you can achieve this by many ways. When your projects are interesting, well-made, and with good documentation, you'll get organic followers. Also, if you engage in others' projects with welcome contributions, discussions, and relevant issues.

Automation to the rescue

However, you might want to try to get more followers in a more automated way. Follow back is a decent strategy and this Python GitHub Follow Bot has options for you to choose the follow sources and how the bot will operate. You can selectively unfollow too.

For example, follow 30 followers of the most popular users from Germany:

Other follow sources are:

• Followers of a target user
• Usernames from a file

Here's another example for unfollowing everyone who doesn't follow you back with a custom random delay between unfollows from 5 to 15 seconds:

Download, instructions and more details on the project's repository:

Correia-jpv / github-follow-bot

🤖 Automated follow/unfollow bot for GitHub. Follow from multiple sources. Choose which users to unfollow. Custom options to control bot speed and maximum actions.