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Hasty Treat - Making a Vaccine Bot with JavaScript
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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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