/ps5-bot

A bot to buy a PS5

Primary LanguagePython

ps5-bot

A bot to buy a PS5.

This is not designed to be a scalper's best friend, but rather a way for individuals to acquire a single system in these hard times.

Almost all web stores feature a very similar purrchasing system:

  • Login page (with email, password and "submit" button)
  • Product page (with an "Add to cart" button)
  • View cart/checkout page (with a "place order" button)

Because of this, the design is a generic class interface for a web store, and can probably be made even more generic to the point where the only requirements in adding a new site are to fill in the XPATH's for the components.

Current Status

Currently works for costco.ca as long as you have an account with your information on file. A test implementation of bestbuy.ca and walmart.ca are incorporated as well, but they have bot protections and so they don't work at the moment.

Requirements

  1. Python 3 with pip
  2. Libraries (can be installed by running python3 -m pip install -r requirements.py in this repo, preferrably in a virtual environment)
  3. Google Chrome and the Google Chrome WebDriver that matches the version of Chrome you have installed (this requirement can be fixed to allow any web driver, but the code requires some changes)

How to use

  1. Clone this repo
  2. Ensure the above requirements are met
  3. Fill in credentials.json file with the corresponding credentials for the site you are trying to run
  4. (Optional) Modify the site class attributes with custom values. The defaults are (time variables are in seconds):
    _retry_stock = 1
    _retry_action_delay = 0.2
    _retry_attempts = 100
    _wait_timeout = 3
  1. There is currently a list of product page URLs in each class as an attribute, where I chose one to run. If you would like a particular bundle/edition, add your own product page URL and make sure the code is choosing it.
  2. Inside of the repo, run the Python interpreter
  3. Import the sites.py module:
import sites
  1. Instantiate whichever site's class you want to run, passing the path to the chrome driver and the credentials file:
site = sites.Costco('./chromedriver', './credentials.json')
site.launch()

  1. A browser window should open up, and the bot will attempt to buy a PS5. Upon success, the bot will exit.

  2. You can also use the included CLI pointing to a json file containing one of more configurations.

{
    "costco": {
        "product": "N/A"
    }
}
python3 buy_ps5.py --config /path/to/config.json

This will spawn a browser window for each product under each website. If you wish to only use the default url, leave a single entry with the value "N/A", otherswise give the url to the product page.