jgrowl / joinem

A configurable bot that automatically buys items from newegg and amazon

⚠️ This project is NOT in a safe state to run if you do not know what you are doing ⚠️

⛔ No Scalpers! ⛔

Scalpers are not welcome to use this software. This is to level the field.

Joinem

A configurable bot 🤖 that automatically buys items from newegg and amazon

If you can't beat the em... Joinem

disclaimer

I am not responsible for how you use this. You probably shouldn't. I cannot guarantee that you will not get banned from any services or over purchase items that you cannot afford. I cannot guarantee your personal information will not be compromised by a bug or an adulterated version of this software. Use this at your own risk!

about

This is a bot 🤖 that will refresh a product page on newegg or amazon at a configurable rate. The bot will check to see if the item is in stock and that the price is below a configurable amount. If so, the item will be purchased by going through whatever process is specific to the vendor. This requires being able to skip advertisements, surveys, insurance offers, etc. The bot will use all default options set on each site so it is important that the correct address and credit card is selected.

configure

set items and other configuration

run

get and run chromedriver

run cargo

current state

Things are pretty rough right now. Many things probably don't work right. Basically the app can buy regular items from stores, but actually getting a 3080 would probably fail badly. Logic needs to be added that will figure out if something went wrong. Specifically when an item purchase is attempted but the item does not actually go in the cart or a message pops up that says the item is out of stock. With amazon the item will need to refresh and resubmit the form until out of stock for example.

Below are a list of things that really should work before this is anywhere near safe to run. Checked items should roughly work, but unchecked are known issues that will cause failure loops or keep buying over and over.

This list will probably grow:

general

• fix chrome data directory failures

amazon

• purchases highly-available items
• purchases low-availability items (ie. 3080)
• knows to refresh and submit form on amazon until out of stock
• reworked logic to be stateless

newegg

• purchases highly-available items
• purchases low-availability items (ie. 3080)
• knows when to stop after successful purchase

future

general

• adds browser-based ui
• adds remote control
• adds un-logged-in remote communication
• provides better logging

dev run

Tested on:

Windows 10 Pro

and

macOS Catalina 
stable-x86_64-apple-darwin (default)
rustc 1.48.0 (7eac88abb 2020-11-16)

requirements

chromedriver

go to https://chromedriver.chromium.org/

download latest for your platform

run chromedriver or chromedriver.exe

config

edit Joinem.toml

newegg

set your newegg items using [newegg_items]

amazon

set your amazon items using [items]

cargo

cargo run

Troubleshooting

Chrome user data directories

Each chrome client has to use its own directory and they will error if they try to share. Logging in with every window, every time would be too much. Instead A window to log in will pop up and then close after logging in. This client's directory will become the template for the rest of the bots. This is so they can share sessions and all stay logged in. These directories can become stale so just delete them all in the joinem_data to regenerate. This also has the benefit that we can keep the users actual chrome data away from all of this and that it will be much faster to copy newly generated chrome user data directories.