Best Buy Bot

Beginning page for our bot

Inspiration

If you’re a gamer, you can’t buy consoles or graphics cards right now in this crazy market It’s so bad that bots are required to even figure out when a GPU is in stock You can’t buy anything on Black Friday or Cyber Monday due to high demand

What it does

The bot checks if the item is in stock
If the item is in stock, the bot presses the button to add to cart
The bot navigates to the cart and presses the button to proceed to checkout
The bot opts to continue as guest
The bot fills out the contact information in the next page
The bot fills out the credit card information in the last page and then presses the button to place the order

Disclaimer: Steps 4 to 6 don’t work yet due to anti-bot measures from Best Buy

How we built it

We split the team into parts. A few people were going to do the backend web scraping, a few people were doing the guy

Challenges we ran into

Best Buy has bot blockers if you use the bot too much. A bit of our project doest work cuz of the the bot blocker

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It can click buttons in the webpage without human interference

What we learned

How to scrape the web

What's next for Best Buy Bot

Circumvent the anti-bot measures on Best Buy
Add support for paying with PayPal
Add support for buying from other websites like Amazon, Newegg, AMD.com, etc.
Make the GUI more user-friendly
Also notify the users when the item is in stock and when the item is in the cart