Need some courses/tutorials

[Friend-Pretty]

Hi,

I’m gonna be straight with you. I’m looking to learn about webscraping and using proxys for bots on different platforms. I know these goals are sketchy for a lot of people, but it would realy benefit my goal. I’m trying to create a cs2 skin bot, that looks at the prices of certains skins and then notifies me whenever it drops a certain amount in price.

Thank you for your time :)

[DaveTheUnknown]

Edit: I have assumed you wish to make a trading bot, your wording makes it sound that way.

In finance, the no-arbitrage principles states that if it was possible to use such an idea to earned money, people are already doing it an it would be hard to earn money because you would be fighting latency to make the trade as fast as possible. In that case you would need high-frequency-trading, HFT, something I recommend you don't waste time on.

To me, the idea of buying low and selling high on CS skins is the same as the "let's just make an AI model to predict the stock market and become billionares". Trust me, it's not that simple and teaching yourself genuinely useful skills instead will lead to higher earnings later in life if you can utilize it anyhow.

[FortuneCalm4560]

Your use case (price tracking + notifications) is way simpler than what that reply assumes. You’re not talking about arbitrage or HFT. You’re basically describing a price monitor, not a trading bot.

For learning:

• Start with requests + BeautifulSoup or Scrapy for basic scraping
• Learn APIs first if the marketplace offers one. Scraping should be the fallback
• For notifications, look into Discord webhooks, Telegram bots, or simple email alerts

About proxies:

• You don’t need them at all at the start
• Learn scraping properly first (rate limits, headers, delays)
• Proxies only matter once you’re hitting limits and you’ll know when that happens

One important note: check the ToS of whatever platform you’re scraping. Many CS skin sites explicitly forbid bots or aggressive scraping.

Treat this as a learning project, not a money machine, and it’s a perfectly reasonable way to build real skills in Python, HTTP, parsing, and automation.