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Out of curiosity, what tech do you reach for when building something like this?
by MattJ100 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what tech do you reach for when building something like this?
- beachy 2y agoSelenium
- hunter2_ 2y agoFor mine, I just used a $1/mo VPS with a cron job running a bash script that used curl to poll the parking system and determine if its response was interesting. I used "copy as cURL" from browser dev tools to find something usable (which incorporated a slightly fragile, but very long lived, session token corresponding to my "cart") and I actually had to use curl-impersonate [0] for Cloudflare bot detection to stay out of my way. And then curl to alert me via Pushover. [0] https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate