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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Wes\\u2019 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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