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.
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PS5 is evil device with DRM. Give your money to charity instead of S*ny.
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!
I have used bs4 before but didn’t know it could be used for that. Thanks.
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.
For Python I would use requests and Selenium.
Thanks. Will look into selenium.
Isn’t like Walmart keeping a cache to sell exclusively in person? I feel like that’d be your best bet
You’re probably better off finding a bot someone else has already made. Here’s a few.
I had to modify the code for one of the bots in there but was able to preorder one finally. Thanks a lot.
Nice. Thanks a lot.
fucking gamers
Down with g*mers indeed
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?
I asked these questions and the problem wasn’t solved but thanks for trying.
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