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While I would certainly welcome such a project, I wonder if a truly open source bot would be hampered by the fact that online retailers could view the source an
by tragiclos 4y ago
While I would certainly welcome such a project, I wonder if a truly open source bot would be hampered by the fact that online retailers could view the source and proactively circumvent whatever strategy it implements.
- IshKebab 4y agoBut if they wanted to stop scalpers they could do it trivially by limiting purchases per credit card or address or whatever. Seems more likely that they don't care.
- lamontcg 4y agoI'm pretty sure they could look at their web requests and stop the proprietary bots almost just as easily.
- ALittleLight 4y agoWould they? If you just send requests to Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, whatever for "check if item is in stock, if yes buy" and loop once a minute why would the retailer implement something to stop you?