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:robot: Autonomous robot for all your electronic needs

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streetmerchant

The world's easiest, most powerful stock checker

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Features

  • Scrapes multiple websites for patterns of being stocked via API and Chromium
  • Opens browser when stock is available
  • Ability to send notifications when stock is available

👉 The bot will not automatically buy for you

Installation overview

Linux, macOS, and Windows are all capable operating systems.

You do not need any computer skills, smarts, or anything of that nature. You are very capable as you have made it this far. Some basic understanding how a terminal, git, and or Node.js is a bonus, but that does not limit you to getting streetmerchant running!

Installation: native

Reference Note
tag Example, v1.0.0; stable
main Latest HEAD; not tagged, could be unstable
  • Node.js 14
  • git
  • Clone this project git clone https://github.com/jef/streetmerchant.git
    • To checkout a particular ref, use git checkout <ref name> after cloning
  • Run npm install
  • Copy .env-example to a new file .env and edit the .env file to your liking using your favorite text editor
  • Run npm run start to start

At any point you want the program to stop, use Ctrl + C.

👉 Please visit the wiki if you need more help with installation.

Installation: Docker

Available via GitHub Container Registry.

Tag Note
latest Latest release; stable
nightly Latest HEAD each day at midnight UTC; could be unstable
# to run
docker run --cap-add=SYS_ADMIN \
  -it --rm --env-file ./.env \
  ghcr.io/jef/streetmerchant:nightly

# to test notifications
docker run --cap-add=SYS_ADMIN \
  -it --rm --env-file ./.env \
  ghcr.io/jef/streetmerchant:nightly test:notification:production

Developer notes

The command npm run start:dev can be used instead of npm run start to automatically restart the project when filesystem changes are detected in the src/ folder or .env file.

Customization

To customize streetmerchant, make a copy of .env-example as .env and make any changes to your liking. All environment variables are optional.

Expand to see all available options

Application

Environment variable Description Notes
AUTO_ADD_TO_CART Enable auto add to cart on support stores Default: true
BROWSER_TRUSTED Skip Chromium Sandbox Useful for containerized environments, default: false
HEADLESS Puppeteer to run headless or not Debugging related, default: true
INCOGNITO Puppeteer to run incognito or not Debugging related, default: false
IN_STOCK_WAIT_TIME Time to wait between requests to the same link if it has that card in stock In seconds, default: 0
LOG_LEVEL Logging levels Debugging related, default: info
LOW_BANDWIDTH Blocks images/fonts to reduce traffic Disables ad blocker, default: false
OPEN_BROWSER Toggle for whether or not the browser should open when item is found Default: true
PAGE_BACKOFF_MIN Minimum backoff time between retrying requests for the same store when a forbidden response is received Default: 10000
PAGE_BACKOFF_MAX Maximum backoff time between retrying requests for the same store when a forbidden response is received Default: 3600000
PAGE_SLEEP_MIN Minimum sleep time between queries of the same product page In milliseconds, default: 5000
PAGE_SLEEP_MAX Maximum sleep time between queries of the same product page In milliseconds, default: 10000
PAGE_TIMEOUT Navigation Timeout in milliseconds 0 for infinite, default: 30000
PROXY_ADDRESS IP Address or fqdn of proxy server
PROXY_PORT TCP Port number on which the proxy is listening for connections Default: 80
SCREENSHOT Capture screenshot of page if a card is found Default: true
USER_AGENT Custom User-Agents headers for HTTP requests Newline separated, e.g.: USER_AGENT_STRING1 \n USER_AGENT_STRING2
WEB_PORT Starts a webserver to be able to control the bot while it is running; optional Default: disabled

👉 You can find your computer's user agent by searching google for "my user agent"

👉 Data usage is known to be high. This is expected as the program scrapes many websites in parallel 24/7. To help reduce this, use LOW_BANDWIDTH="true". We are looking into other solutions as well, but is low priority.

Filters

Environment variable Description Notes
COUNTRY Supported country you want to be scraped Currently only used by Nvidia, default: usa
MAX_PRICE_SERIES_3070 Maximum price allowed for a match, applies 3070 series cards (does not apply to these sites: Nvidia, Asus, EVGA) Default: leave empty for no limit, otherwise enter a price (enter whole dollar amounts only, avoid use of: dollar symbols, commas, and periods.) e.g.: 1234 - Cards above 1234 will be skipped.
MAX_PRICE_SERIES_3080 Maximum price allowed for a match, applies 3080 series cards (does not apply to these sites: Nvidia, Asus, EVGA) Default: leave empty for no limit, otherwise enter a price (enter whole dollar amounts only, avoid use of: dollar symbols, commas, and periods.) e.g.: 1234 - Cards above 1234 will be skipped.
MAX_PRICE_SERIES_3090 Maximum price allowed for a match, applies 3090 series cards (does not apply to these sites: Nvidia, Asus, EVGA) Default: leave empty for no limit, otherwise enter a price (enter whole dollar amounts only, avoid use of: dollar symbols, commas, and periods.) e.g.: 1234 - Cards above 1234 will be skipped.
MAX_PRICE_SERIES_RYZEN5600 Maximum price allowed for a match, applies AMD 5600 series cpus Default: leave empty for no limit, otherwise enter a price (enter whole dollar amounts only, avoid use of: dollar symbols, commas, and periods.) e.g.: 1234 - CPUs above 1234 will be skipped.
MAX_PRICE_SERIES_RYZEN5800 Maximum price allowed for a match, applies AMD 5800 series cpus Default: leave empty for no limit, otherwise enter a price (enter whole dollar amounts only, avoid use of: dollar symbols, commas, and periods.) e.g.: 1234 - CPUs above 1234 will be skipped.
MAX_PRICE_SERIES_RYZEN5900 Maximum price allowed for a match, applies AMD 5900 series cpus Default: leave empty for no limit, otherwise enter a price (enter whole dollar amounts only, avoid use of: dollar symbols, commas, and periods.) e.g.: 1234 - CPUs above 1234 will be skipped.
MAX_PRICE_SERIES_RYZEN5950 Maximum price allowed for a match, applies AMD 5950 series cpus Default: leave empty for no limit, otherwise enter a price (enter whole dollar amounts only, avoid use of: dollar symbols, commas, and periods.) e.g.: 1234 - CPUs above 1234 will be skipped.
MICROCENTER_LOCATION Specific MicroCenter location(s) to search Comma separated, e.g.: marietta,duluth, default: web
NVIDIA_ADD_TO_CART_ATTEMPTS The maximum number of times the nvidia-api add to cart feature will be attempted before failing Default: 10
NVIDIA_SESSION_TTL The time in milliseconds to keep the cart active while using nvidia-api Default: 60000
SHOW_ONLY_BRANDS Filter to show specified brands Comma separated, e.g.: evga,zotac
SHOW_ONLY_MODELS Filter to show specified models Both supported formats are comma separated

1. Standard E.g.: founders edition,rog strix

2. Advanced E.g: MODEL:SERIES, E.g: founders edition:3090,rog strix
SHOW_ONLY_SERIES Filter to show specified series Comma separated, e.g.: 3080,ryzen5900
STORES Supported stores you want to be scraped Both supported formats are comma separated

1. Standard E.g.: "nvidia"

2. Advanced E.g: STORE:PAGE_SLEEP_MIN:PAGE_SLEEP_MAX, E.g: nvidia:10000:30000

Default: nvidia
Supported stores

👉 Used with the STORES variable.

Stores Environment variable
Adorama adorama
Alternate (DE) alternate
Alternate (NL) alternate-nl
Amazon amazon
Amazon (CA) amazon-ca
Amazon (DE) amazon-de
Amazon (ES) amazon-es
Amazon (FR) amazon-fr
Amazon (NL) amazon-nl
Amazon (UK) amazon-uk
AMD amd
AMD (DE) amd-de
Aria PC (UK) aria
ARLT (DE) arlt
ASUS asus
ASUS (DE) asus-de
Azerty (NL) azerty
B&H bandh
Best Buy bestbuy
Best Buy (CA) bestbuy-ca
Box (UK) box
CanadaComputers (CA) canadacomputers
Caseking (DE) caseking
CCL (UK) ccl
Computeruniverse (DE) computeruniverse
Coolblue (NL) coolblue
Coolmod (ES) coolmod
Currys (UK) currys
Cyberport (DE) cyberport
eBuyer (UK) ebuyer
EVGA evga
EVGA (EU) evga-eu
Galaxus (DE) galaxus
Game (UK) game
Gamestop gamestop
Kabum (BR) kabum
Mediamarkt (DE) mediamarkt
MemoryExpress (CA) memoryexpress
Micro Center microcenter
Mindfactory (DE) mindfactory
Newegg newegg
Newegg (CA) newegg-ca
Notebooksbilliger (DE) notebooksbilliger
Novatech (UK) novatech
Nvidia nvidia
Nvidia (API) nvidia-api
Office Depot officedepot
Overclockers (UK) overclockers
PCComponentes (ES) pccomponentes
PlayStation playstation
PNY pny
Proshop (DE) proshop-de
Proshop (DK) proshop-dk
Saturn (DE) saturn
Scan (UK) scan
Target target
Very (UK) very
Walmart walmart
Zotac zotac
TopAchat topachat
Micro Center stores

👉 Used with the MICROCENTER_LOCATION variable.

👉 Before using web, please review this issue comment.

Store name
brooklyn
brentwood
cambridge
chicago
columbus
dallas
denver
duluth
fairfax
flushing
houston
madison-heights
marietta
mayfield-heights
north-jersey
overland-park
parkville
rockville
sharonville
st-davids
st-louis-park
tustin
westbury
westmont
yonkers
Supported brands and models

👉 Used with the SHOW_ONLY_BRANDS and SHOW_ONLY_MODELS variables.

Brand Model
amd 5600x, 5800x, 5900x, 5950x
asus dual, dual oc, strix, strix oc, tuf, tuf oc
evga ftw3, ftw3 ultra, xc3, xc3 black, xc3 ultra
gainward phantom gs, phoenix, phoenix gs, phoenix gs oc
gigabyte aorus master, aorus xtreme, eagle, eagle oc, gaming, gaming oc, turbo, vision, vision oc
inno3d gaming x3, ichill x3, ichill x4, twin x2 oc
kfa2 sg oc
microsoft xboxsx , xboxss
msi gaming x trio, ventus 2x oc, ventus 3x, ventus 3x oc
nvidia founders edition
palit gamerock oc, gaming pro, gaming pro oc
pny dual fan, xlr8 revel, xlr8 uprising
sony ps5 console, ps5 digital
zotac amp holo, amp extreme holo, trinity, trinity oc, twin edge, twin edge oc
kfa2 sg
gainward phoenix, phoenix gs
Supported countries (used with nvidia and nvidia-api)

👉 Used with the COUNTRY variable.

Country 3080 FE 3090 FE Test Card Notes
austria ✔ ✔ ✔
belgium ✔ ✔ ✔
canada ✔ ✔ ✔
czechia ✔ ✔ ✔
denmark ✔ ✔ Missing RTX 3090
finland ✔ ✔ Missing RTX 3090
france ✔ ✔ ✔
germany ✔ ✔ ✔
great_britain ✔ ✔ ✔
ireland ✔ ✔ ✔
italy ✔ ✔ ✔
luxembourg ✔ ✔ ✔
netherlands ✔ ✔ ✔
norway ✔ ✔ ✔
poland ✔ ✔ ✔
portugal ✔ RTX 3080 only
spain ✔ ✔ ✔
sweden ✔ ✔ ✔
usa ✔ ✔ ✔

Notifications

👉 You can test your notification configuration by running npm run test:notification.

Desktop
Environment variable Description Notes
DESKTOP_NOTIFICATIONS Display desktop notifications using node-notifier Default: false
PLAY_SOUND Play this sound notification if a card is found Relative path accepted, valid formats: wav, mp3, flac, E.g.: path/to/notification.wav, free sounds available
Discord
Environment variable Description Notes
DISCORD_NOTIFY_GROUP Discord group you would like to notify Can be comma separated, use role ID, E.g.: <@&2834729847239842>
DISCORD_WEB_HOOK Discord Web Hook URL Can be comma separated, use whole webhook URL
Email and SMS
Environment variable Description Notes
EMAIL_PASSWORD Gmail password See below if you have MFA
EMAIL_TO Destination Email Defaults to username if not set. Can be comma separated
EMAIL_USERNAME Gmail address E.g.: jensen.robbed.us@gmail.com
PHONE_CARRIER Supported carriers for SMS E.g.: att or att,verizon,google, email configuration required. If multiple phone numbers are listed, enter a carrier for each phone number
PHONE_NUMBER 10 digit phone number(s) E.g.: 1234567890 or 1234567890,0987654321,11112223333, email configuration required
SMTP_ADDRESS IP Address or fqdn of smtp server
SMTP_PORT TCP Port number on which the smtp server is listening for connections Default: 25

👉 If you have multi-factor authentication (MFA), you will need to create an app password and use this instead of your Gmail password.

Supported carriers

Carrier Environment variable Notes
AT&T att
AT&T Prepaid attgo
Bell bell
Fido fido
Google google
Koodo koodo
Mint mint
Rogers rogers
Sprint sprint
Telus telus
T-Mobile tmobile
Verizon verizon Works with Visible
Virgin virgin
Virgin (CA) virgin-ca
MQTT
Environment variable Description Notes
MQTT_BROKER_ADDRESS IP address or URL of MQTT Broker e.g 192.168.1.xxx or broker.hivemq.com
MQTT_BROKER_PORT Network port of MQTT Broker Default: 1883
MQTT_CLIENT_ID Unique ClientID (only if required by MQTT Broker), typically not required when only publishing alerts eg. client-123456
MQTT_PASSWORD MQTT password - only use with MQTT brokers on private networks, if required. Will not be sent over public networks for safety. e.g mysecret
MQTT_QOS QoS level for published alerts to broker (https://www.npmjs.com/package/mqtt#about-qos) Default: 0, Can be 0, 1, or 2
MQTT_TOPIC Topic to publish alerts to. Can include %store%, %series%, %brand%, %model% for dynamic topics Default: streetmerchant/alert e.g nv-alert/%store%/%series%/%brand%/%model%/alert
MQTT_USERNAME MQTT username - (only if required by MQTT Broker) e.g myusername
PagerDuty
Environment variable Description Notes
PAGERDUTY_INTEGRATION_KEY PagerDuty Events API v2 Integration Key. Obtain one in PagerDuty - - Integrations
PAGERDUTY_SEVERITY Severity of PagerDuty events Default: info
Philips Hue
Environment variable Description Notes
PHILIPS_HUE_API_KEY Hue Bridge API Key Required, generate key using instructions here. This will be used for both LAN and cloud access over the official Remote Hue API.
PHILIPS_HUE_LAN_BRIDGE_IP LAN IP Address of your Hue Bridge LAN only, e.g. 192.168.x.x
PHILIPS_HUE_LIGHT_IDS Light IDs Optional (all if not supplied). Comma seperated, e.g.: 1, 2
PHILIPS_HUE_LIGHT_COLOR Color in RGB Format Optional (NVIDIA green if not supplied). Comma separated, e.g.: 255, 255, 255
PHILIPS_HUE_LIGHT_PATTERN blink or empty Optional - lights will flash for 30 seconds if blink is supplied.
PHILIPS_HUE_CLOUD_ACCESS_TOKEN Remote Access Token Cloud only, the access token obtained from Philips's Remote Hue API. Instructions to generate here.
PHILIPS_HUE_CLOUD_REFRESH_TOKEN Remote Refresh Token Cloud only, the refresh token obtained from Philips's Remote Hue API.
PHILIPS_HUE_CLOUD_CLIENT_ID Remote Client ID Cloud only, the client ID to use when accessing the Remote Hue API.
PHILIPS_HUE_CLOUD_CLIENT_SECRET Remote Client Secret Cloud only, the client secret to use when accessing the Remote Hue API.

👉 Video demonstration

Pushbullet
Environment variable Description Notes
PUSHBULLET PushBullet API key Generate at https://www.pushbullet.com/#settings/account
Pushover
Environment variable Description Notes
PUSHOVER_TOKEN Pushover access token Generate at https://pushover.net/apps/build
PUSHOVER_USER Pushover username
PUSHOVER_PRIORITY Pushover message priority
Slack
Environment variable Description Notes
SLACK_CHANNEL Slack channel for posting E.g.: update, no need for #
SLACK_TOKEN Slack API token
Telegram
Environment variable Description Notes
TELEGRAM_ACCESS_TOKEN Telegram access token
TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID Telegram chat ID Comma seperated, e.g.: 123456789, 123456789,987654321
Twilio
Environment variable Description Notes
TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID Twilio Account SID Can be found on twilio.com/console
TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN Twilio Auth Token Can be found on twilio.com/console
TWILIO_FROM_NUMBER Twilio provided phone number to send messages from Include country code e.g +4401234567890
TWILIO_TO_NUMBER Mobile number to send SMS to Include country code e.g +4401234567890
Twitter
Environment variable Description Notes
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY Twitter Token Key
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET Twitter Token Secret
TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY Twitter Consumer Key Generate all Twitter keys at: https://developer.twitter.com/
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET Twitter Consumer Secret
TWITTER_TWEET_TAGS Optional list of hashtags to append to the tweet message E.g.: #nvidia #nvidiastock
Twitch
Environment variable Description Notes
TWITCH_CLIENT_ID Twitch client ID
TWITCH_CLIENT_SECRET Twitch client secret
TWITCH_ACCESS_TOKEN Twitch access token
TWITCH_REFRESH_TOKEN Twitch refresh token
TWITCH_CHANNEL Twitch channel

FAQ

Q: What's Node.js and how do I install it? Visit their website and download and install it. Very straight forward. Otherwise, Google more information related to your system needs.

Q: Will this harm my computer? No.

Q: Have you gotten a card yet? YES! 🎉 🚀

Screenshot

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Q: Will I get banned from of the stores? Perhaps, but getting a card is a nice outcome.

Q: I got a problem and need help! File an issue. I'll do my best to get to you. I work a full time job and this is only a hobby of mine.

Q: How do I get the latest code? Take look at this wiki page.

Q: Why don't my notifications work? There is probably an issue that has already been resolved .

Q: I'd love to contribute, how do I do that? Make a pull request! All contributions are welcome.

Q: Why do I have to download all this stuff just to get this bot working? Well, I would rather you didn't either. See #11.

Q: Why does Amazon show an error page (with a picture of an animal) instead of adding to cart or going to the detail page? This is intended; see #733. This indicates that the item is out of stock and only available from a third-party seller (often at a markup).

Q: I'm using streetmerchant in the cloud and X isn't working. There is a lot of undefined behavior with using streetmerchant in the cloud. Some sites may block IPs from your cloud provider. It is possible that a VPN will help circumvent these problems.