I have tried to use fast fingers to preorder a PS5 as soon as it restocks and have failed. Now I want to turn to the dark side.
What do I use to achieve this? I know python and shell scripting but know nothing about web development.
fucking gamers
What software/library to use to write a bot that snipes a PS5 as soon as it is available for preorder?
Submitted 3 months ago by ksynwa@lemmy.ml to opensource@lemmy.ml
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jiaminglimjm@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
To solve this problem.. ask yourself... why you want this PS5? What motivates your desire for a closed capitalist hardware full of neocolonial games? To the point of this clicking nonesense?
ksynwa@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I asked these questions and the problem wasn't solved but thanks for trying.
coleman@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
After the Revolution, the only game is Farming Simulator 2095
edward@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
You're probably better off finding a bot someone else has already made. Here's a few.
Victim_0@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
PS5 is evil device with DRM. Give your money to charity instead of S*ny.
poVoq@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Game theory at work turning this into a mutually assured destruction scenario where everyone loses.
Next step will be an AI that predicts when there will be stock and sends the order a few milliseconds before the stock is officially listed.
QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
For Python I would use requests and Selenium.
ksynwa@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Thanks. Will look into selenium.
nachtigall@feddit.de 3 months ago
Popular libs for web scraping are requests and beautifulsoup. You may want to check out this tutorial for the basics.
I wouldn't be too optimistic that you stand a chance against "professional scrapers" but good luck anyway!
ksynwa@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I have used bs4 before but didn't know it could be used for that. Thanks.