Amazon Buy Bot Projects

Project

This project was done as a proof of concept that you can build a purchase bot and a price scraper for amazon without using a web driver or other ineffecient techniques.

Feel free to use this if you need a PS5 or another hard to find item.

I have strong reasons to believe, but I cannot confirm that this is the same strategy that other bots are using for their purchase bots.

Environment Setup

Windows

If you're on Windows, install https://ubuntu.com/wsl or use a container with an Ubuntu image.

Install Node & Yarn

Install nvm and configure it to use Node v14.15.4:

Note: The commands below assume you use bash as your shell. If you use something else, update the appropriate shell rc instead.

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.38.0/install.sh | bash
. ~/.bashrc
nvm install 14.15.4
nvm alias default 14.15.4
npm install --global yarn

Install project dependencies

1. Clone repo
2. yarn install

Build & run project

Note: Before running the project, you have to login to amazon and then copy over all the cookies in your browser from amazon.com into the loginCookies array in the utilities/requests.ts file.

1. Run yarn build to compile TS to dist/
2. Run yarn start to execute src/index.ts (program entry-point)

Tip: Check package.json to see how these yarn commands are defined.