Hasty Treat - How Would We Script a PS5 Buying Bot?

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the PS5 bot debacle, and how they would do it differently! LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 03:12 - Scott’s strategy Go to Reddit and refresh until someone posts a link and then GO GO GO Don’t buy on sites that allow simple bots to work TBH I don’t know how to code this type of bot and would prob end up accidentally buying a ton of stuff 05:06 - Wes’ strategy https://mcbroken.com/

You need a way to find out of there is stock Find out of there is an API endpoint you can hit (inspect element) If there is not, you’ll need to scrape the site. Fetch(url). text() Regex Cheerio

Puppeteer (slower, easier to run) Save any data that you want in a database. Text-based database is great. Lowdb

SQLite

DynamoDB (if doing serverless) Re-run the scrape every N mins When there IS a match you can: Send a text message - Twilio

Send an email - Postmark

Try to fill out the form and submit it yourself document.querySelector() 11:35 - Things that get in the way Blocked IP Use a VPN Captcha or Cloudflare

Run it on your local computer Use Puppeteer to get all cookies and headers Links https://twitter.com/bahamagician/status/1329430249151533066

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