PS5bot

ps5bot is a dead simple auto-checkout bot to purchase a PlayStation 5 from direct.playstation.com, and other sites (planned: Target, Gamestop).

Installation overview

Linux, macOS, and Windows are all capable operating systems.

You do not need any computer skills, smarts, or anything of that nature. You are very capable as you have made it this far. Some basic understanding how a terminal, git, and or Node.js is a bonus, but that does not limit you to getting PS5bot running!

Installation

1. Install Node.js
2. Install git
3. download this project
   1. git clone https://github.com/VVNoodle/PS5bot
4. Open up a terminal
5. go to project directory cd /the/project/directory
6. Install dependencies by running npm install
7. Make CLI callable
   yarn link

Setup

1. Run ps5bot. You'll be prompted to fill in required checkout info
   ps5bot
   Note: Below steps are still TODO
2. Set schedule for scraper to run
   ps5bot schedule
3. Run ps5bot around the time scheduled
   ps5bot run
   Make sure to run this script and keep the terminal open around the time of the schedule

Note

The purpose of building PS5bot is:

• to practice web scraping and
• to buy a PS5 for myself
  The second pointer is fair imo since it's pretty much an automated version of constantly clicking refresh to buy shit.
  Also: This is not intended to scalp massive quantities of PS5s. That's not cool.