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

<p class="has-line-data" data-line-start="7" data-line-end="8">In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the PS5 bot debacle, and how they would do it differently!</p> <h2 class="code-line" data-line-start="9" data-line-end="10"><a id= "LogRocket__Sponsor_9" name="LogRocket__Sponsor_9"></a>LogRocket - Sponsor</h2> <p class="has-line-data" data-line-start="10" data-line-end="11"> 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 <a href= "https://logrocket.com/syntax">logrocket.com/syntax</a>.</p> <h2 class="code-line" data-line-start="12" data-line-end="13"> <a id="Show_Notes_12" name="Show_Notes_12"></a>Show Notes</h2> <p class="has-line-data" data-line-start="13" data-line-end="14"> 03:12 - Scott’s strategy</p> <ul> <li class="has-line-data" data-line-start="14" data-line-end="15"> Go to Reddit and refresh until someone posts a link and then GO GO GO</li> <li class="has-line-data" data-line-start="15" data-line-end="16"> Don’t buy on sites that allow simple bots to work</li> <li class="has-line-data" data-line-start="16" data-line-end="18"> TBH I don’t know how to code this type of bot and would prob end up accidentally buying a ton of stuff</li> </ul> <p class="has-line-data" data-line-start="18" data-line-end="19"> 05:06 - Wes’ strategy</p> <ul> <li class="has-line-data" data-line-start="19" data-line-end="21"> <a href="https://mcbroken.com/">https://mcbroken.com/</a></li> </ul> <ol> <li class="has-line-data" data-line-start="21" data-line-end="23"> You need a way to find out of there is stock <ul> <li class="has-line-data" data-line-start="22" data-line-end="23"> Find out of there is an API endpoint you can hit (inspect element)</li> </ul> </li> <li class="has-line-data" data-line-start="23" data-line-end="24"> If there is not, you’ll need to scrape the site.</li> <li class="has-line-data" data-line-start="24" data-line-end="25"> Fetch(url). text()</li> <li c