PS5 BotAT

This is a tiny bot, written for myself, that checks websites for PS5 availability.

To set it up:

create a .env file in your root directory with a BOT_TOKEN value for your telegram bot.

Install Nodejs and npm if not installed yet.

Then you only have to run npm install

Run

npm start in Terminal or press ctrl + shft + b in VSCode.

The Bot runs every minute, as described by the scheduler (in ms). Only Austrian Websites are available. Others have to be added manually.

NO GUARANTEE THAT THIS WORKS!!

This bot is scraping a website and checks for stuff that may indicate, that a ps5 is available. However, this method is not very reliable, so it is configured to give more false-positives than negatives.

Register for notifications

Run the application, than go to your bot on telegram, and write 'notifyme'. It then responses with a message, indicating that you will be notified. If you want to check if it is still running, you can always send 'hello' and wait for a response.

Extending the Bot

You only have to create a new webshop with the specified interface, and add your scraping method with cheerio. The webshop then has to be added to the array on index.ts.

Known Issues

• The Bot can only scrape HTML, because of the architecture. Restructuring is necessary to enable other methods. Other scraping methods, like accessing a REST or GraphQL API are not supported, since I simply did not have the time.
• If a product is available, the bot keeps sending notifications to every user even if they already got one. Which means all users will get notifications every minute. This stops, when a ps5 is not available anymore.