I had a similar idea on Saturday and wrote a puppeteer based script which monitors Tesco.com and then pushes a screenshot to my phone if it finds a slot: https://github.com/paulmaunders/delivery-slot-bot
I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries
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#172Why is grocery delivery considered a ‘safer’ option than going to the store yourself. I actually prefer to do it myself. I’d rather be the one to lay hands on all my own products. Why would you trust an unknown group of people to take all the proper precautions? Who picked the item by hand? Who is this bringing it to your door? Are you sure they washed hands? Did they accidentally sneeze on anything? Is the vehicle s…
The primary mode of transmission is through droplets from coughing and sneezing. Minimizing the amount of time you spend around other people is by far the most effective way to avoid getting the virus. If you put away the delivered items, wash your hands, and then don't return to the kitchen for a few hours, then it doesn't matter if the delivery person infected your items. The virus can't last all that long outside…
I've seen many reports of the virus lasting many days on plastic/hard surfaces. I imagine that's under lab conditions but still worth being aware of.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Bulgaria between 8.30 and 10.30 shops are open for the elderly only. I'm not sure how effective this is but it strikes me as a good low tech move.
Same is Slovakia. When looking on handling the covid spread, it seems that generally central/east european countries are doing surprisingly good job compared to western europe, which is rather clueless and is paying/will a rather pay high price for this incompetence.
I'm afraid little testing helps keep numbers low.
They tested 5000 people since a few days ago in Bulgaria.
Re: I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries
#174I had a similar idea on Saturday and wrote a puppeteer based script which monitors Tesco.com and then pushes a screenshot to my phone if it finds a slot: https://github.com/paulmaunders/delivery-slot-bot
hey - just tested your code - works great. I am no coder, but have installed and it runs fine.
Quick question
1) Its now only checking for Group-1 which is 1hr fixed. Would like to include Group-4 which is the flexible slot.
2) Not just send notification - book the earliest one available.
How to do this?
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#175Greasemonkey seems a much better weapon.
how?