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submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have tried to use fast fingers to preorder a PS5 as soon as it restocks and have failed. Now I want to turn to the dark side.

What do I use to achieve this? I know python and shell scripting but know nothing about web development.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Popular libs for web scraping are requests and beautifulsoup. You may want to check out this tutorial for the basics.

I wouldn't be too optimistic that you stand a chance against "professional scrapers" but good luck anyway!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

I have used bs4 before but didn't know it could be used for that. Thanks.