🚀 GitHub Automation Tool

A comprehensive, professional-grade Python tool for GitHub automation with multiple operation modes, intelligent rate limiting, multi-threading support, and robust error handling.

✨ Features

Core Capabilities

• ✅ Token Validation - Secure authentication with GitHub API
• 👥 Follow Users - Manual or automatic user following
• ⭐ Star Repositories - Manual or automatic repository starring
• 🎯 Follow Stargazers - Follow all users who starred a specific repository
• 🔄 Multi-threading - Concurrent operations for optimal performance
• ⏳ Smart Rate Limiting - Automatic detection and handling with countdown
• 📊 Real-time Statistics - Live progress tracking and final summaries
• 📝 Comprehensive Logging - Optional file logging for audit trails
• 🎨 Color-coded CLI - Beautiful, informative terminal interface
• 🛡️ Graceful Shutdown - Clean exit on Ctrl+C with summary
• 🔁 Retry Mechanisms - Exponential backoff for network errors
• 🌐 Cross-platform - Works on Windows, Linux, macOS, Termux

Operation Modes

1. Manual Mode

• Follow specific users by username
• Star specific repositories by owner/repo

2. Auto Follow Users

• Automatically follow random GitHub users
• Configurable count and threading

3. Auto Star Repos

• Automatically star trending repositories
• Filter by programming language
• Configurable parameters

4. Follow Repo Stargazers

• Follow all users who starred a repository
• Pagination support for large lists
• Batch processing with configurable parameters

5. Rate Limit Check

• View current API rate limit status
• See when limits reset

📋 Requirements

System Requirements

• Python 3.6 or higher
• Internet connection
• GitHub Personal Access Token

Python Dependencies

requests

🔧 Installation

Standard Installation (Linux/macOS/Windows)

1. Clone or download the script:

# Download the script
git clone https://github.com/mrwhite4939/GitForce
# or
git clone https://github.com/mrwhite4939/GitForce

2. Install dependencies:

pip install requests
# or on some systems:
pip3 install requests

3. Make executable (Linux/macOS):

chmod +x GitForce

Termux Installation (Android)

# Update packages
pkg update && pkg upgrade

# Install Python
pkg install python

# Install pip
pkg install python-pip

# Install requests
pip install requests

# Download the script
git clone https://github.com/mrwhite4939/GitForce

# Run the script
python GitForce

Kali Linux Installation

# Update system
sudo apt update

# Install Python and pip
sudo apt install python3 python3-pip

# Install requests
pip3 install requests

# Download and run
git clone https://github.com/mrwhite4939/GitForce
python3 GitForce

Windows Installation

1. Install Python:

   • Download from python.org
   • Check "Add Python to PATH" during installation

2. Install dependencies:

pip install requests

3. Run the script:

python GitForce

🔑 Creating a GitHub Personal Access Token

The tool requires a GitHub Personal Access Token for authentication:

1. Go to GitHub Settings → Developer settings → Personal access tokens
2. Click "Generate new token" → "Generate new token (classic)"
3. Give it a descriptive name (e.g., "Automation Tool")
4. Select the following scopes:
   • ✅ user:follow - To follow/unfollow users
   • ✅ public_repo - To star repositories
5. Click "Generate token"
6. Copy the token immediately (you won't see it again!)

Token Permissions Required

| Permission | Purpose | Required For | |------------|---------|--------------| | user:follow | Follow/unfollow users | Following users | | public_repo | Star repositories | Starring repos |

🎮 Usage

Basic Usage

python GitForce
# or
python3 GitForce
# or (if made executable)
./GitForce

Step-by-Step Workflow

1. Launch the tool
2. Enter your GitHub Personal Access Token (input is hidden for security)
3. Token validation - Confirms authentication
4. Choose operation mode from the menu:
   • Manual Mode
   • Auto Follow Users
   • Auto Star Repos
   • Follow Repo Stargazers
   • Check Rate Limit
   • Exit

Example Sessions

Example 1: Manual Mode - Follow a User

SELECT MODE
1. Manual Mode
...
Enter your choice (1-6): 1

Choose action:
  1. Follow a user
  2. Star a repository

Enter choice (1-2): 1
Enter GitHub username to follow: torvalds
✓ Followed: torvalds

Example 2: Auto Follow Random Users

SELECT MODE
...
Enter your choice (1-6): 2
How many users to follow? (default=50): 100
Number of workers (default=10): 15
Rest time between batches in seconds (default=5): 3

🚀 Following up to 100 random users...
✓ Followed: user1
✓ Followed: user2
...

Example 3: Follow Repository Stargazers

SELECT MODE
...
Enter your choice (1-6): 4
Enter repository (owner/repo): microsoft/vscode
Number of workers (default=10): 20
Rest time between batches (default=5): 5
Batch size (default=50): 100

🚀 Following stargazers of microsoft/vscode...
📄 Processing page 1...
✓ Followed: user1
✓ Followed: user2
...

Example 4: Auto Star Trending Repos

SELECT MODE
...
Enter your choice (1-6): 3
How many repos to star? (default=30): 50
Filter by language? (optional, e.g., Python): Python
Number of workers (default=10): 10
Rest time between batches in seconds (default=5): 5

🚀 Starring up to 50 trending repositories (Python)...
⭐ Starred: django/django
⭐ Starred: pallets/flask
...

⚙️ Configuration Options

Threading & Performance

| Parameter | Description | Default | Recommended Range | |-----------|-------------|---------|-------------------| | workers | Number of concurrent threads | 10 | 5-20 | | rest_time | Seconds to rest between batches | 5 | 3-10 | | batch_size | Items per batch before rest | 50 | 30-100 |

Performance Tips

• Small tasks (< 100 items): workers=10, rest_time=3
• Medium tasks (100-500 items): workers=15, rest_time=5
• Large tasks (> 500 items): workers=20, rest_time=10
• Conservative (avoid rate limits): workers=5, rest_time=10

📊 Statistics Tracking

The tool tracks and displays:

• ✅ Users Followed - Successfully followed users
• ⭐ Repos Starred - Successfully starred repositories
• ⊘ Items Skipped - Already followed/starred
• ✗ Actions Failed - Failed operations
• ⏳ Rate Limits - Number of times rate limit was hit
• 📄 Pages Processed - Total pages processed
• 🎯 Total Actions - Total operations attempted

Sample Output

FINAL SUMMARY
=====================================
✓ Users Followed:      150
⭐ Repos Starred:      30
⊘ Items Skipped:       25
✗ Actions Failed:      5
⏳ Rate Limits:        2
📄 Pages Processed:    10
🎯 Total Actions:      180

🛡️ Security & Best Practices

Security Measures

• ✅ Token input is hidden (using getpass)
• ✅ Token is never logged or printed
• ✅ Secure HTTPS communication with GitHub API
• ✅ No token storage - enter each session

Best Practices

1. Use dedicated tokens for automation
2. Set minimum required scopes only
3. Regenerate tokens periodically
4. Never share your token
5. Revoke tokens if compromised
6. Monitor your account activity

Rate Limiting

• GitHub allows 5,000 API requests/hour for authenticated users
• Tool automatically detects and waits when limits are hit
• Countdown timer shows remaining wait time
• Operations resume automatically after reset

🐛 Troubleshooting

Common Issues

"Module 'requests' not found"

pip install requests
# or
pip3 install requests

"Invalid token" error

• Check token has correct permissions (user:follow, public_repo)
• Ensure token hasn't expired
• Verify no extra spaces when pasting

Rate limit exceeded frequently

• Reduce number of workers
• Increase rest_time
• Reduce batch_size

Network timeout errors

• Check internet connection
• GitHub API may be temporarily unavailable
• Tool will retry automatically

Script not running on Windows

• Ensure Python is in PATH
• Use python instead of python3
• Run as administrator if needed

Error Codes

| Code | Meaning | Solution | |------|---------|----------| | 401 | Unauthorized | Check token validity | | 403 | Rate limited or forbidden | Wait for rate limit reset | | 404 | User/repo not found | Verify username/repo exists | | 500+ | GitHub server error | Retry later |

📝 Logging

Enable Logging

When prompted at startup:

Enable logging to file? (y/n, default=n): y

Log File Format

github_automation_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.log

Log Contents

• Timestamp for each operation
• Successful follows/stars
• Errors and failures
• Rate limit events
• Network issues

Example Log Entries

2025-01-15 14:23:45 - INFO - Token validated for user: username
2025-01-15 14:24:12 - INFO - Successfully followed user: torvalds
2025-01-15 14:24:15 - WARNING - Rate limit hit. Waiting 10m 5s
2025-01-15 14:24:20 - ERROR - Failed to follow octocat: HTTP 404

🎨 Color Coding

| Color | Meaning | Example | |-------|---------|---------| | 🟢 Green | Success | "✓ Followed: username" | | 🔴 Red | Error/Failure | "✗ Failed: username" | | 🟡 Yellow | Warning | "⏳ Rate limit hit" | | 🔵 Blue | Information | "📄 Processing page 1" | | 🟣 Magenta | Special action | "⭐ Starred: repo" | | ⚪ Cyan | Prompts/Headers | Menu selections |

🔄 Graceful Shutdown

Press Ctrl+C at any time to:

• Stop current operations cleanly
• Complete in-progress requests
• Display final statistics
• Save logs (if enabled)
• Exit gracefully

📚 API Reference

GitHub API Endpoints Used

• GET /user - Validate token
• GET /rate_limit - Check rate limits
• `PUT /user