Using Android Automate Flows to vote on multiple accounts

Since I’ve been voting on multiple accounts for a bit on my phone, I’ve found it a little bit annoying turning airplane mode on, waiting a few seconds, then turning airplane mode off then navigating to the voting link. If you don't know what I'm talking about, see Nightz's multiple account voting guide here: https://forum.maplelegends.com/index.php?threads/guide-voting-101-for-multiple-accounts.38034/

With the recent change to GTOP’s voting to prevent multiple account voting on the same browser, this has become even more helpful to me. This flow is super easy to setup.

So instead, I thought about how I could use a Tasker task to automate this process and browse to the URL for me. Well after using Tasker for a while I tried out Automate and it's way easier setup so I decided to make a post about it.

*NOTE* This does not vote automatically for you, this just automates the airplane mode on/off, then navigates to the preset browser/link. Obviously you have to do the voting verification yourself.

Requirements

• Android phone (if someone knows a similar app/method on iPhone, feel free to post about it)
• Automate (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.llamalab.automate)
• Your voting link (https://gtop100.com/topsites/MapleS...Hackers-87398?vote=1&pingUsername=LOGINIDHERE)

I originally did this with Tasker, but Automate is so much easier I’ve found. I’ll post my Tasker “tutorial” in the second post if anyone cares (eventually).

This is what your Automate task should look like at the end. Note if you haven’t used Automate before, it doesn’t matter how you arrange the blocks, as long as the connections are flowing the right direction.

Spoiler: Final Automate flow

1. Open Automate and create a new “Flow” (by tapping he + in the bottom right)
2. Add a “Disable Wifi” block by tapping the + and searching for “wi-fi set state”. Tap the new block and tap “off”
3. Add an “Enable airplane mode” block by searching for “airplane mode set state”. Tab the new block and tap “on”
4. Add a delay block by searching for “delay” and make it something reasonable (I did 3 seconds). We want to make sure our phone goes on airplane mode fully before disabling
5. Add a “Disable airplane mode” block
6. Add another delay
7. Add a “App start” block by searching for “app start”. Then you need to fill out the corresponding boxes. If you tap the fx button (function) you can type in the fields manually, otherwise if you tap the field, it will bring up a list of options for you.
   1. Package: (this is the android app package - you can find the package name on the google play store website)
      For example, the link for Firefox is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox
      
      The package name is: org.mozilla.firefox
      
      I think Automate lets you browse for apps too which you can do also.
      
      
   2. Action: View (“android.intent.action.VIEW”)
      
      
   3. Data URI: Voting link
      GTOP: https://gtop100.com/topsites/MapleS...Hackers-87398?vote=1&pingUsername=LOGINIDHERE
      TOPG: https://topg.org/maplestory-private-servers/in-605064-LOGINIDHERE
      
8. Connect the beginning to the end using your finder (see image above for example)

Spoiler: App start block

Then you can start your flow by going back and tapping “Start”. Now you can copy the flow and insert a different LOGINID for another account, and change the package to a different browser (e.g. Vivaldi - com.vivaldi.browser).

After you are done voting, you can hit "Back" twice and just go back to the Automate app and start your next flow.

Video example: https://streamable.com/q1fr00

Multi account example: https://streamable.com/hq5ikk

Spoiler: F.A.Q.

Q: Which browsers do you use?
A: Firefox, Brave, Brave Nightly, Dolphin, DuckDuckGo, Edge, Firefox Focus, Firefox Nightly, Samsung Internet, Kiwi Browser, Opera, Opera Touch, Vivaldi, Ecosia

Q: I got "Possible proxy/bot/vpn detected"
A: I find this usually happens to me if I wait too long to do the verification, but could be other triggers, not sure.

Q: Why did you even bother doing this?
A: This saves like a few extra taps!!! Also I often lost my place and naming flows lets me know which account I was on.

Q: This is so easy, why even make a forum post?
A: Some people aren't familiar with Automate (I wasn't until I wanted to vote for ML... LOL)

 

Spoiler: Tasker version I guess

Since I’ve been voting on multiple accounts for a bit on my phone, I’ve found it a little bit annoying turning airplane mode on, waiting a few seconds, then turning airplane mode off then navigating to the voting link. So instead, I thought about how I could use a Tasker task to automate this process and browse to the URL for me.


With the recent change to GTOP’s voting to prevent multiple account voting on the same browser, this has become even more helpful to me.


Requirements

• Android phone (if someone knows a similar app/method on iPhone, feel free to post about it)
  

• Tasker (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm)
  
  
• AutoInput (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joaomgcd.autoinput)
  
  
• Your voting link (https://gtop100.com/topsites/MapleS...Hackers-87398?vote=1&pingUsername=LOGINIDHERE)
  

I will be utilizing Tasker here (which unfortunately is not free). Some similar things could potentially be done with other automation apps such as Automate but I’m not familiar with them and I already had Tasker. If you are familiar with Tasker, then we only really care about the “Task” function it has.

1. Setting up AutoInput to toggle airplane mode
   I use AutoInput to toggle airplane mode because toggling it through Tasker requires root permissions.
   
   
   1. Open AutoInput and make sure to give it permissions.
      
      
   2. Tap on “Manage Input Actions”
      
      
   3. Tap the “+” to add an input action
      
      
   4. Navigate to your Airplane mode toggle button in settings. This can easily be achieved (on my phone) by swiping down the toolbar and holding the airplane mode button.
      
      
   5. Swipe down again and tap on “Add” in the “Selecting Field” notification from AutoInput
      
      
   6. Tap on the toggle for airplane mode
      
      
   7. Tap on “Accept” in the Autoinput notification
      
      
   8. Follow instructions to go back to AutoInput app
      
      
   9. Select the “Element Field” -> “Element Text: Airplane mode, off”
      
      
   10. Tap on “Click” (might need to tap twice)
       
       
   11. Repeat steps a->j without turning off airplane mode
       

You should have two tasks now, one for “Airplane mode, off” and one for “Airplane mode, on”

1. Setting up the Tasker Task
   
   
   1. Open Tasker and go to the “Tasks” tab
      
      
   2. Click the “+” to add a task and give it a name (e.g. “Vote account 1”)
      
      
   3. Click the + to add an action
      
      
   4. In the search bar (filter) type in “wifi” and look for the “WiFi” option. We are going to turn off Wifi. Select it and in the “Set” field, change it to “Off”
      
      
   5. Add another action (go to airplane mode settings)
      
      
   6. Now we will add a delay just in case (I use 3 seconds)
      
      
   7. Add another action, this time, search for “AutoInput Action”. In configuration, click the little pencil icon and scroll down to “Stored Action”, and select the Airplane mode toggle we created in Step 1. Then click the check mark in the top right and press the arrow in the top left to save and go back
      
      
   8. Add a delay
      
      
   9. Now, add a “AutoInput Global Action” -> Configuration -> select “Action” -> and “Back”
      
      
   10. Add a delay
       
       
   11. Now, repeat steps e->j, except choose the second AutoInput action we created (Airplane mode On switch)
       
       
       
   12. Finally, we are going to add the task that browses to the URL. Add another action and search for “Send Intent” and fill out the fields as follows:
       
       
       1. Action: android.intent.action.VIEW
          
          
       2. Data: https://gtop100.com/topsites/MapleS...Hackers-87398?vote=1&pingUsername=LOGINIDHERE
          
          
       3. Package: (this is the android app package - you can find the package name on the google play store website)
          For example, the link for Firefox is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox
          
          The package name is: org.mozilla.firefox
          
          
          
       4. Target: Activity
          
          

1. Running the task
   
   
   1. Go into the task (you should see “Task Edit” at the top)
      
      
   2. At the bottom, there is a “play button”. Tap it and wait until it browses to the voting page
      
      
   3. After voting, you simply hit “Back” two times to go back to tasker and close the tab
      
      
   4. Repeat Steps as necessary
      

You can clone the task and replace the URL (Data) and browser app (Package) for multiple accounts.


Video example: https://streamable.com/ehjh7e

 

Thanks! Yea I might have mentioned it or something can't remember. This saves a little bit of time but another main reason I did it was that I could just vote while doing something (like playing with my cat) and it would automatically take me to the link.

Spoiler: Obiligatory cat tax

p.s. how do I resize images

 

Oh yea, that's cool! I didn't even think about it this way. But then again, I always press it and then vote like a minute later so that wouldn't work for me