Suggestion only use chromium/chrome for opening browser window about streetmerchant

[zerocarbthirty]

It turns out it doesn't really matter because you can install chrome manually from SSH and that works, but the real problem is that most retailers have blocked all IP addresses from the major clouds anyway and as such the project is really only useful from behind residential networks.

[zerocarbthirty]

One other suggestion, you might want to see if you can filter amazon results by seller as a zotac just popped up for $1500.

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On Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 2:41 PM Jef LeCompte ***@***.***> wrote: Wow... Okay cool. This is good information. Thanks for the issue. Maybe we can come up with a solution. I'll put this in todo and go from there. Thanks! — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#113 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AD7FNQSOECTK7GEAIXHT3BDSGZEFFANCNFSM4RTXVJXQ> .

[jef]

This project's backbone (as of now) is puppeteer, which is based off using the Chromium browser. Curl-like requests would suffice but would need to mock the browser's agent and other headers that query websites to ensure we don't trigger catchpas and other related problems.

Not sure if I'm willing to take on this work as of now, but definitely should look into this in the future as it would be great to use for all the various notifications. As well as integration with Docker.

[jef]

Ah, so you're trying to proxy from a cloud provider to your home network via SSH?

Now this is an interesting request!

[zerocarbthirty]

No, I was just running the project directly from a VM in GCE rather than my PC but a whole lot of the sites it checks block GCE :)

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On Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 2:25 PM Jef LeCompte ***@***.***> wrote: Ah, so you're trying to proxy from a cloud provider to your home network via SSH? Now this is an interesting request! — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#113 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AD7FNQXL7XH7BGK7SYGVYC3SGZCLBANCNFSM4RTXVJXQ> .

[jef]

Wow... Okay cool. This is good information. Thanks for the issue. Maybe we can come up with a solution. I'll put this in todo and go from there.

Thanks!

[matthewLee711]

Dang my AWS EC2 instance was blocked after 5 hours of runtime. 10 second interval is a little too quick. I think 30-60 seconds would be the way to do it.

[jef]

One other suggestion, you might want to see if you can filter amazon results by seller as a zotac just popped up for $1500.

Done in #126

[zerocarbthirty]

Yea man they are probably blocking known cloud providers.

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On Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 7:07 PM Matthew Lee ***@***.***> wrote: Dang my AWS EC2 instance was blocked after 5 hours of runtime. 10 second interval is a little too quick. I think 30-60 seconds would be the way to do it. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#113 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AD7FNQSGK3RSW4XBXCWQASTSG2DLNANCNFSM4RTXVJXQ> .

[jef]

I'm gonna close this out in light of #352. I think you'll be able to direct all your traffic from any sort of cloud provider through this proxy.

Let me know otherwise and I can reopen.