In aedobbyn/foodpls: Amazon Bot

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foodpls

This is a bot that can be used to check out an Amazon food cart. Particularly useful in the time of covid. This is probably not super condoned by Amazon, so use at your own risk :)

Installation

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("aedobbyn/foodpls")

Configuration

• Add some Amazon cookies to data-raw/cookies_template.csv and change the file name to data-raw/cookies.csv
• This allows Selenium to bypass the 2FA that you'd normally have to go through when you're not already logged in

• You can find these by opening the Chrome inspector on an Amazon page, heading to the Applications tab, then looking under Cookies

• Save your email in an environment variable called EMAIL

• Save your Amazon password in an environment variable called AMAZON_PASS

e.g.

Sys.setenv(EMAIL="[e-mail]")

Run

There are three main functions in this package.

• get_in: logs you in
• check_out: checks out your cart and navigates you to the page where you would select a delivery time if one is available
• buy: selects the first available delivery time if it's available. If it's not, it keeps refreshing the page until a certain number of tries is reached or a time limit is reached, or both.

run evaluates all of these in order.

library(foodpls)

There are two carts to choose from: "whole foods" or "amazon fresh".

run(cart = "whole foods")

The ... args to run are passed to buy.

run(cart = "amazon fresh", n_tries = 3, sleep_time = 2)

aedobbyn/foodpls documentation built on Aug. 14, 2020, 2:07 p.m.