In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Wes’ experiment building a vaccine bot!

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Show Notes

07:32 - First step

Finding the data. Open up dev tools.
Copy as Node.js Fetch in Chrome
Two ways to do this - Puppeteer, or raw requests, or a mix.

11:03 - Variablizing it

Store IDs
Booking form IDs
Vaccine IDs

12:56 - Finding out any restrictions

Is there a cookie?
Is there an XSRF?
Do these things change?
How often can you hit it?

15:20 - Caching

Array variable

16:59 - Delivering the notifications

Telegram

Links

https://github.com/wesbos/vaxbot

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