Writing a Python Script to Check If Any ACs Are Available Every 5 Minutes

It's been ridiculously hot in Vancouver recently, and it's almost impossible to find ACs.
So I wrote a simple Python script (with Selenium) to check if any AC's are available at Best Buy every 5 minutes and mention me on Slack when there is one.
- The starter code: replit.com/@ykdojo/scraping-a...
- The complete code: replit.com/@ykdojo/scraping-a...
- A doc about always-on on Replit: docs.replit.com/hosting/enabl...
- You can get 2 months of free hacker plan with this code: csdojo2 (claim it at replit.com/claim)
- The two videos I mentioned:
The one about why you might want to switch from Webpack to Vite: • Why We Switched from W...
The one about coding bootcamps: • Ruben Harris on Career...
- Follow me on Twitter for more content: / ykdojo
- This video might be a good reference to check how to set up your own Slack bot: • Python Slack Bot Tutor...

[@CSDojo]

Long time no see everyone! haha If you have any questions or just want to chat, feel free to join my Discord server here: csdojo.io/d EDIT - clarification: I turned off the notification of that channel so I won't be notified every time the bot sends a message. I'll only be pinged when there's a mention. I chose to send a message every time anyway just to make it easier to make sure the bot's still working.

[@anitoons999]

Good morning sir. I'm from India 🇮🇳. Today is Teachers Day for us. So I wish you a Happy Teachers Day Sir 😊. You teaches us coding very well sir.

[@rashidaakter1205]

Javascript, html and css tutorial please. ....i am from Bangladesh..

[@masternobody1896]

best

[@Hallden_]

This was awesome man! A lot more clean code than when I do projects haha

[@CSDojo]

Haha thanks!!

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hey kalle

[@djobama5586]

God eftermiddag Kalle

[@Mahadonation1]

Hey Kalle, ur videos on automation are cool too

[@hangout7081]

Hi dude.

[@erikawwad7653]

just passed my data structures and algorithms class!!!!

[@Asuna-chu]

Congrats

[@erikawwad7653]

@@Asuna-chu thank you

[@madhavsuri1759]

Hi Erik where did you learn data structures and algorithms can you suggest where to learn and regarding which Language you completed DS,and algorithms

[@bruce7773]

Which school ? Online ?

[@bolt8129]

Great man

[@ddibbles]

I know it's a bit of a silly project, but you're teaching some very valuable python skills here! I hope you continue to post regularly to this channel again!

[@cookieandcream6151]

These videos continue to inspire me. Thank youuuu 🥺

[@CSDojo]

I was asked why I'm letting the bot spam Slack every time, and here's my answer: I turned off the notification of that channel so I won't be notified every time the bot sends a message. I'll only be pinged when there's a mention. I chose to send a message every time anyway just to make it easier to make sure the bot's still working.

[@pranavi1949]

I asked that question on your discord.

[@ClarityCoders]

Nice video! I was playing with selenium on Replit a bit the other day works really well. I could see this video helping people set up a lot of projects like checking for the availability of GPUs or PS5s. You know the important stuff...

[@dddonehoo7]

Some of the best and most inspirational CS content.

[@themarvelgirl1382]

Thanks for all the efforts you've taken for us!

[@ermalgashimramori]

Great content as always! Hope you upload more!

[@DontSnowMe]

Welcome back! I've actually been wondering how to do something like this on discord. Thank you!

[@krypton9378]

I love your way of teaching..thank you so much for teaching us the easiest way possible!

[@c.allmebro]

U make so detailed python tutorials and it's helping me out a lot u are the best bro

[@kailashrajendran3580]

Just now realised, I'm so early 🤣! I Always love CS Dojo ❤️

[@karenyanza7721]

He is extremely good teaching , in every single video , i dont get confused "never" , keep it up!!!!!! 👏👏👏👏

[@aydnaliyev914]

These videos keep me inspired 💙 Tysm

[@strategy_gal]

Wow this is so cool! Great tutorial!

[@noatak6027]

Your videos are so helpful for me. Thank you ever so much

[@umumuntuksemua9831]

Great video as always!

[@slothlair]

Nicely explained, thanks.

[@mdshadan-7312]

Great ♥️ after watching this my motivation in programming is grew

[@macx8360]

Honestly speaking yesterday thinking about ut Frequency of ur videos and yah here u are .

[@mvpbluesky9820]

hi man i love all your video it help me a lot to learn python and others i have a question what software do you use for programing?

[@hoango867]

Just wanna say thanks you. Your video is great

[@BrianBest]

This is timely stuff!!

[@fanaticalplel1003]

Just tarted learning, this looks so advanced and complicated

[@brianbrian7590]

BRUH, YOURE STILL ALIVE! I WATCHED YOUR OLD VIDEOS LAST MOTNH

[@mehmetjohson8878]

Thank you brother

[@elixpo]

This is amazing 👍

[@harrypulsford995]

The reason for the error is probably because the element has become stale in the Dom, ie its looking for the element before the page is actually in a ready state, also an easier way to locate that element would be to use xpath and locate via class contains and the text.

[@thetopnotch5209]

YK is back... Awesome

[@samyaksanghvi3896]

Good ! I am a professional webscraper on Fiverr. But it's all because of you. Thank you for making excellent videos ❤️ Hey, if you can please make a course on django. Thank you

[@infotechyeti]

Awesome. Thanks for the channel. You do any live streams and when?

[@CSDojo]

No I don't really do live streams

[@nazialateef6451]

Happy to see you..😊

[@nijoeli]

I was feeling depressed, I haven't had enough motivation to do anything lately, but this video has given me motivation to do a similar bot and thanks to your tutorials I'm gonna be able to do it :D Thank you very much

[@pile333]

Amazing! And some says that you can do such a thing in Python...

[@JamBear]

I didn't know you were in Vancouver! I can confirm it is unbearably hot.

[@hoshiya4522]

To scrape dynamic oages with BS4 or Requests You'll need to first find the xhr on the page.. chrome dev tools is the best way to do this.. then you can just do get requests on those xhrs and you'll get your data

[@abdullashafi580]

yay, you are back!

[@muhammadsakib4711]

waiting for your javascript tutorials for beginner! I'm interested in javascript to being a web developer!

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THE GOAT IS BACK

[@oxane2722]

Wow yk you're back!

[@konstantin.v]

_print('refreshing...')_ I see what you did there 😊

[@Lisa-gq7xp]

you are a wonderful person, thank you for sharing the useful information. I'm learning about AI, looking forward to finding youtubers like you. Everyone who studies AI, do you know any other useful youtuber channels? thanks a lot .

[@iconelias508]

Finally you're back ...

[@Shenge93]

Man you are good teacher, can you please provide full beginner course for Python I am really understanding when you teach me those basic Python

[@homamal289]

I have seen all your videos on how and what you should learn first. But I’m in a situation that I can’t find enough time because I study Mathematical Statistics and now I have a chance to get a job but they prefer c++ to learn first also I’m studying c++ in my university now so I just want to know what is the best I can choose for now

[@benjaminmornington9129]

I want to learn coding so I can do Cyber security so I am try to learn as much coding tips as possible so thank you for the vidz

[@TECHWITHSHAFI]

My idol cs dojo Take my love

[@easytutorial1869]

What should I choose between B.tech Cse with specialization in ai/ml engineering and B.tech Cse with specialization in data science?

[@alphabausffs7254]

hello do you know if it it possible to use spyder for doing that? Because i get this when i enter the code on spyder No module named 'selenium'

[@muhammadhusaynamilaiyub6911]

hi im new to coding just wanna ask cause i cant find soluttion how do i print a string and a int or float together cuase when i print a int and str together it becomes error so i have to separate them

[@shantosh3071]

Pretty Good

[@mustafaaljanabi4818]

Welcome back buddy :)

[@timeboundtales1]

I love the vids

[@devidevidevina]

Hello what code editor you used?

[@enter5mycreations3]

Dude do you know source 2 programming or coding language? Because we are modding a game. Retexturing it and adding more items.

[@arshpreetsingh7828]

How can I run my python script indefinitely? Most probably by using some cloud hosting service for running scripts but what kind would be best for running these kind of python bot scripts?

[@CSDojo]

I think Replit + always on is pretty good as I mentioned in the video and description

[@jiberuba8856]

How to change the slack to email? I want to use this code please

[@ac130kz]

refeshing the page in selenium works worse than loading it again for whatever reason, also it's better to use explicit polling with WebDriverWait, then there are switches to make your page load significantly faster

[@LandoCalani]

does anyone know a site for scripts like this?

[@encryptedhuli9482]

Does anyone know how to make your code change the second time you run it? For example: If you run your code once it says Hello. Then if you run it again it says Whats up.

[@56xdprincevaviya83]

This is insane CS Dojo if you don't mind then I want to ask this.... (1) Which language you started first to learn coding? (2) From which platform you learned it ? Please reply me on this comment!

[@CSDojo]

I think I talk about all of those here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3bPh3qXnZx4psk

[@SciencesEducationDE]

I did the same as you, unfortunately I get the following error message when I run the second part of the code: Traceback (most recent call last): File "main.py", line 18, in client = slack.WebClient(token=os.environ['slack_token']) AttributeError: module 'slack' has no attribute 'WebClient'

[@CSDojo]

Did you run pip install slackclient?

[@pranavi1949]

Did you install slackclient using pip install?

[@SciencesEducationDE]

@@pranavi1949 Yes I did, even pip 3 install slackclient

[@abcreation8371]

@@SciencesEducationDE Is your bug resolved? If yes please let me know how to resolve it.

[@josesamuelproducoes2843]

Cool

[@sheikhebadulkarim2599]

good

[@ma4534]

Hello sir... How do i improve my coding in 30 days for competitive coding...... I have been trying but not able to do code properly...

[@bruce7773]

Great video 👍 GitHub Co Pilot is a bit scary ? Web Developer jobs could be gone in 3 years time 😞

[@CSDojo]

hmm honestly hard to tell 😅

[@disrael2101]

Why u post so rarely bro? Such useful projects! Make more asap

[@camn-bv3vq]

What about those clases that changes everytime? I think it's anti scrapping technique used by some owner.

[@CSDojo]

Hmm that might be kind of tricky to deal with. You might want to select things based on text in that case, then.

[@noahtesfay2375]

good job bro!

[@dragongamer4753]

I live in georgia in the us so i already have ac but nice video

[@SweetDarkViolet]

I would `copy as fetch` from the request that gets whether the order is available. Then I would do a setInterval using that fetch.

[@motivation_beast3489]

Sir plz about when we learn python next steps for career

[@turjobennington1677]

i miss your videos ! come back to the youtube man

[@jewell1276]

Can we use request instead of selenium Plzz help.....

[@CSDojo]

You could try!

[@sourdurian2839]

my fav youtuber heh

[@leelakrishna6291]

AWS or data science what to choose

[@CSDojo]

Hmm not sure. You might want to try asking on Discord: csdojo.io/d

[@Rocketsmemes1]

I followed you on linked in lol

[@fatimabaig504]

Upload moreeeeee

[@sarves_boreddy]

Good Morning

[@pick1916]

damn i dont know even the half of half of what you know but I hope I can be as good as you one day

[@amaltk1520]

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@Asiifee]

❤from

[@Kai-uj5go]

I feel like someone would be willing to take a cashapp for the product and shipping cost to send you one, only problem would be how long it takes crossing the border the heatwave might be over before it reaches you. Cool code though.

[@adriangallano2232]

I'm so fast flash didn't see me coming.

[@hangout7081]

Hi cs-dojo. Can you please continue teach python. I'm new an I learn most skill from you.

[@narc7885]

He has a python playlist check it out

[@vepexandalali3985]

Can Zoe make a video where you show how to make a wepsite plis

[@dist321]

ahhahaah Cool coding! Did you finally get your AC?

[@ticoo1977]

Hey bro please I request to you , tell me that did you have a computer science degree

[@kyle_bro]

He have plenty in FL, ill ship you one lol

[@syncopowerstations]

Is there a chance that you might be interested in corroborating on a new project?

[@adarshsaurabh7871]

Hey man why you posts so less videos these days I really miss you

[@theawakened7739]

YT algorithm boost

[@daminichandra.0683]

Do u still work for google

[@CSDojo]

no I don't. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGqtlneqecSYiZo

[@daminichandra.0683]

Did u ever try to make app like Facebook or twitter

[@CSDojo]

@@daminichandra.0683 Hmm not quite!

[@GoodBoyDanny]

But aren’t there like anti bot scripts on best uy

[@CSDojo]

Clearly not 🤣

[@GoodBoyDanny]

@@CSDojo I just know theres a whole market for bestbuy bots. Checkout botbroker . io lol

[@pranavi1949]

This isn't a bot per say it is just web scraping. The Anti Script checks if a bot host is on the site not we bscraping

[@mateenbutt3180]

result = 10//3 # Result: 3 result = -10//3 # Result: -4 why when one of operand is -ve result change as above?

[@aashutoshraj2751]

You are very handsome. Thank you for this video. Very creative. 😊

[@sivasankarganeshp4990]

your channel all video are short code of advance level how to beginners learn or any other channel or website or document link attachment please

[@CSDojo]

Check my Python beginner series?

[@mahsanmasroor4904]

Please teach us c++ programming language please:)