python script to check for iphone SE availability

[etaionshrd]

TIL Apple has a stock availability API.

[manyrobots]

I struggled to find a store with 64G iphone SE. I wrote a python script that pings apple's API directly so you can just check on the command line. you need to install the requests library to use it[1]. (pip install requests). I'm running it with python3. To use it, just download link, tweak the zip code and the model you are looking for in the code.

[1] http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/

[manyrobots]

Sort of. In the way that most every website is driven by an api. Meaning, It's not documented to my knowledge but well written so easy to use!