I wrote a script similar to Julia's and other people's here to score tickets to a sold out music festival. At the time, people were posting on the event page th

I wrote a script similar to Julia's and other people's here to score tickets to a sold out music festival. At the time, people were posting on the event page that they had tickets to sell, but they were scooped up very quickly. It was a simple script that used Facebook's API to pull the messages on the event page and notify me via email that a new post had been made. I ran it every minute via a cronjob on an ancient laptop I'd been gifted. It was arguably a little chatty since it notified me of every post, and of course I had to be wary of potential scammers, but it worked and the festival was great. I'm currently in the process of changing careers from computer science to healthcare, but I'm glad my software development career has given me the tools, skills and knowledge to solve little problems like these.