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What software/library to use to write a bot that snipes a PS5 as soon as it is available for preorder? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by ksynwa@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 0 points 2 years 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!