SELENIUM: Building your own buying BOT

(For beginner to Python & Selenium)

This example is to build a custom bot using Selenium. Selenium is an automated testing bot.

In selenium you can use many programming languages, here we will try to learn Python as the testing language. I have always wanted to learn Python so this is a good opportunity.

1. Install Python
2. Install pip (installer using Python)( To easily install Selenium we need to install PIP)
3. Install Selenium

Install Python

• Install with all features if you are new to Python (see images above)
• Check if Python is installed correctly.
• Open Terminal as administrator.
  • Press CTRL-R or window key to bring out the search bar search “command prompt”, right-click to run as administrator.
• in the terminal type
  • python –version
  • You should see something like “Python 3.10.4”

Install pip

• Create an empty file get-pip.py file to use as a placeholder
• Run this code to copy the pip code into the placeholder file
  • curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
• Run this code to run pip
  • python get-pip.py
• Check PIP installed succesfully
  • pip –version

Install Selenium

• Install (reference from the official site)
  • Run this command in command prompt
    • pip install selenium
    • python setup.py install

Install Selenium browser drivers

• Then we need to download the Selenium browser driver
  • official link (if you can’t find the right version the next link can be useful)
    • IF you are going to use Chrome this could be useful: chromedrive link. Make sure you get the right version. The version that is higher than your Chrome version.
      • click on the triple dot in the top right corner > help > About google chrome or copy this in a chrome window
        • chrome://settings/help
  • Put the chromedriver somewhere you can easily access by code.
  • If you didn’t set up the Chromedriver path as seen in the official link then you just manually link it later inside your python code.
    • driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=’C:/path/to/chromedriver.exe’)

Writing your first Selenium-Python bot buying Code

Buying playstation with an estore that needs login [ Reference site]

Download his sample code

• cd playstation-bot
• Can skip this if using windows
  • source bin/activate
• python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
• python app.py
  • Change the line code driver = webdriver() if you didnt setup the path for your chromedriver to this code:
    • driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=’C:/path/to/chromedriver.exe’)

Ok from here you just need to study the python code and test and learn 😀

As I Am still learning I cant give useful ways to learn it and examples yet. Check-in after 3 months.