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A bot for reserving hotel rooms. I wrote a bot to reserve hotel rooms a year in advance for a national park in the US. It was so difficult to book. After coup

A bot for reserving hotel rooms. I wrote a bot to reserve hotel rooms a year in advance for a national park in the US. It was so difficult to book. After couple days of failed attempts to reserve my desired dates, and after staying up late into the night one day, I went ahead and wrote a bot to automate the task of checking for availability and then completing the checkout process once available. And... it worked.

mosselman 9y ago
How does the bot reserve hotel rooms? Through an API or does your bot interact with a website. How do you validate that your code is still able to reserve an hotel room lets say 3 years after writing it; I can imagine that changing systems will break you code. Not trying to be a smart ass, just interested :)
18nleung 9y ago
Yosemite?
- rprameshwor 9y ago
  A month before July 4th, i tried booking a camp site in Yosemite and got none. I should have known the camp sites gets completely booked 6-8 months ahead. When i called one of the camp sites, the automated machine replied - press 1 to book for this year press 2 to book for next year.
  - hammock 9y ago
    >A month before July 4th Ha. For a top-ten most visited park in the world? Walk-up permits are your friend. No experience at Yosemite but I got some backcountry permits at Grand Canyon, it helps if it's not peak season, I think people line up at 4am for those. Worst case you are posting up in a random field or Walmart parking lot for the night.
ethagnawl 9y ago
Any chance you'd be willing to share it with us?
fma 9y ago
Nice! I've never been able to get a date I want for a national park. So much easier when single and or in college. I see other days, or a room here and there...but not enough for my family and for the dates to coincide with everyone's schedule. I also don't have the foresight to book that advance. I've settled with staying offsite and just driving. Not the same experience but good enough compromise I guess.
steveeq1 9y ago
What language did you write it in? Curious. . .

mosselman 9y ago

How does the bot reserve hotel rooms? Through an API or does your bot interact with a website. How do you validate that your code is still able to reserve an hotel room lets say 3 years after writing it; I can imagine that changing systems will break you code. Not trying to be a smart ass, just interested :)

18nleung 9y ago

Yosemite?

rprameshwor 9y ago
A month before July 4th, i tried booking a camp site in Yosemite and got none. I should have known the camp sites gets completely booked 6-8 months ahead. When i called one of the camp sites, the automated machine replied - press 1 to book for this year press 2 to book for next year.
- hammock 9y ago
  >A month before July 4th Ha. For a top-ten most visited park in the world? Walk-up permits are your friend. No experience at Yosemite but I got some backcountry permits at Grand Canyon, it helps if it's not peak season, I think people line up at 4am for those. Worst case you are posting up in a random field or Walmart parking lot for the night.

ethagnawl 9y ago

Any chance you'd be willing to share it with us?

fma 9y ago

Nice! I've never been able to get a date I want for a national park. So much easier when single and or in college. I see other days, or a room here and there...but not enough for my family and for the dates to coincide with everyone's schedule. I also don't have the foresight to book that advance. I've settled with staying offsite and just driving. Not the same experience but good enough compromise I guess.

steveeq1 9y ago

What language did you write it in? Curious. . .