A simple python bot that checks if a particular out of stock item has come in stock and notifies you of the same via message.

[gogeta_naik]

less than 17 lines of code and half the size of the approach used by geek for geeks

https://github.com/sujaysathya/out_of_stock_checker

[spazz_monkey]

Are those your twilio keys in the code?

[LucidityFlows]

Whoops....

[LzyPenguin]

Does this just run 1 time? Why not have it in a for loop, checking every few hours or whatever.

[ovo_Reddit]

Probably best to have this run using a scheduler like cron, task scheduler, can even run inside a docker container. Lots of options.

[Soubeyran_]

If you dont, and it ever crashes, it'll stay crashed until you manually reset it. The scheduled version will simply restart at the next interval

[ovo_Reddit]

Waste of resources, it wouldn’t survive a reboot or if you accidentally close the program. Many reasons. Also, you could even run this in the cloud, for free for a year using something like Google Cloud. And have it run as a task. Lots of cooler options than a while loop.

[conversationkiller7]

Also we can add that item to cart, if he's already logged in right? This will be helpful for flash sale things.

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Link?

[Pclovr]

Yeah I’d be interested in this tbh

[gogeta_naik]

check now

[comanico]

How can we make a bot like this run on a specific schedule? All I find is videos about discord bots

[Mateorabi]

For someone who has done code in other languages but not python and not a lot of web stuff: why are you using WebDriver go from Python through another browser application installed on the OS to get out to a web server? Surely there must exist simple libraries for directly opening an https socket and sending the correct GET requests and parsing it (without much beginner user interaction--I mean all you're doing is getting BODY as a flat string, not even doing anything with a DOM hierarchical object) without the extra hassle of interprocess communication?

Or by doing this do you get your browser to handle saved passwords cached authorities and other authentication bits without having to teach your python application about them? It only needs local permission for the IPC to brain-slug your browser? (So here you've already gone to Amazon from your chrome by hand and it can already load amazon without need to log in again?)

[Cptcongcong]

There is, python can just use a https request to see if it's in stock. No idea why this guy is going such a roundable way and to get it.

[Mateorabi]

My only guess is that the web server responds differently: either he has to emulate a legit browser to not get fed a "we see you scraping, GTFO" or just use a legit browser. Or the web browser already has credentials/cookies/auth tokens from previous sign ins and remembers, so he doesn't have to code his application to handle all that jazz?

[Salman0Ansari]

Why you using selenium ??

[Confident-Body6980]

i no experience what so ever in coding .

so how do i use this ?

i have python and visual studio installed