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How To Get a PlayStation 5 When It's Always Out of Stock

Marisa You on December 01, 2020

In these times of Covid-19, gaming consoles are more sought-after than ever before. Since people are staying home most of the time, many have turne...
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Michael Tharrington

Can this be repurposed to follow product availability on other sites? Wondering cause I've been following this one product for months and every time it becomes available it disappears!

Anywho, this is super cool. 🙌

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Luis Felipe Suarez Corrales

if you want to add new retailers you can modify the code in :

Step 2: Go to Retailer's Site

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spiritupbro

you can for sure

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Marisa You

Yes, this can absolutely be repurposed for following any product on any site! Just change the code accordingly :)

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Cuyler Stuwe

Uh, the whole reason they’re so consistently out of stock is that people are using scripts like this to scalp them lol.

So this isn’t doing anything to solve the problem, and the more people use this solution, the less effective it becomes.

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Mak Ho-Cheung

Thank you for your share! But I can not afford the ps5.😂

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Caleb David

It doesn't matter, the concept can be applied not just to PS5 but to any product on any e-commerce store. I once built a service like that and saved lots of dime. That's a great article Marisa.

I also teach web scraping indepth, perhaps you'd want to check that out:

webscrapingzone.com

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Marisa You

Thank you for reading!

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Anna

Great minds think alike! I just posted about a scraper for the new Xbox using a different library, but I can't wait to try this one out!

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Marisa You

I'll definitely be checking out your post too! Thanks for reading!

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Carlos Garcia ★

Very informative and well written article that actually explains what each line or block of code is doing. :)

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Marisa You

Thank you!

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Randal Vance Cunanan

All is good, until the shop implements a captcha.

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HaxNet

With the amount of time I spend configuring my Arch, I barely have time for anything else. The last PS console I played was PS2 lol

I rather spend money and time on my own PC.

Very good read though!

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Achyut Jhunjhunwala

I am really impressed with the creativity here, but how will you handle this problem twitter.com/MarcosBL/status/133645...