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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - Making a Vaccine Bot with JavaScript

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Wes’ experiment building a vaccine bot! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 07:32 - First step Finding the data. Open up dev tools. Copy as Node.js Fetch in Chrome Two ways to do this - Puppeteer, or raw requests, or a mix. 11:03 - Variablizing it Store IDs Booking form IDs Vaccine IDs 12:56 - Finding out any restrictions Is there a cookie? Is there an XSRF? Do these things change? How often can you hit it? 15:20 - Caching Array variable 16:59 - Delivering the notifications Telegram Links https://github.com/wesbos/vaxbot Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0

Monday Monday Monday open wide dev fans get ready to stuff your face with javascript CSS node module barbecue tips get work flows break dancing soft skills web development the hastiest the

0:13.5

Carrazius the tastiest web development treats coming in hot. Here is West

0:19.2

Barracuda boss and Scott L. Toro Lungo to Linsky

0:25.2

Welcome to syntax in this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be doing a another deep dive into one of West's

0:34.5

interesting projects that he loves to do when these use development to better your life West built a

0:41.7

Vaccine bot to help him find vaccines. So we're going to be talking all about strategy and really just fun practical web development hacking kind of stuff.

0:52.2

My name is Scott Linsky. I'm a developer from Denver Colorado and with me as always is the West boss. Hey everybody.

0:59.5

He West this episode is sponsored by two excellent companies. We have a sanity and a century West. Do you want to take a quick second to talk about sanity and I will talk about

1:11.4

Century. Yeah, sanity available at sanity.io is structured content CMS. They are the unified content platform that powers better digital

1:21.4

Experiences what that means is they provide a wicked set of APIs a platform a CMS editing UI for your website.

1:30.9

And you can go in and create your content data types. You created all via code. You can check all that into your your Git repo.

1:37.4

You can run it all locally, which is really, really nice. You can make your own custom react components for it and then out the other end.

1:44.9

You can spit out either graph QL API. They also have this really cool query language called grok, which I really appreciate that they they make it like a

1:53.4

Standard in the open source all of that, which is super cool. It's just really all around good platform both from a developer as

2:00.4

Well as well as from an end user point of view. I always say it's like the perfect balance of it being done for you. Like it just works out of the box. You can get going as

2:09.4

Well as if you do need to go super deep and customize it and build your own inputs. You totally can check it out.

2:15.4

sanity.io forward slash syntax double the free usage tier on that URL. Thanks so much to sanity for sponsoring this episode is also

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Misery score just to tell you just how much users are enjoying the page of a time of your site or perhaps not enjoying the page of a time of

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Your site, which is an important metric to have. It also is a great place to keep track and log all of your errors and exceptions. View them attach them to GitHub issues to see who they're

2:57.4

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