Lucky Seat not working about broadway-lottery

[AutomateAaron]

For the moment, maybe just getting lucky seat to work with whatever the user is logged on might be easier.

Also, this may be a bit of a paradigm switch, but maybe this project would be better suited as a Selenium project? This would allow us to leverage control of the browser from outside the browser rather than having to handle sessions and what not from within the browser. Just a thought. 🤷

[voshawn]

@AaronNBrock re: selenium, that's a good idea, however my concern is that selenium won't be able to bypass the Captchas. I haven't really tried but we could test it.

[AutomateAaron]

@voshawn it can't bypass the Captchas in an automated fashion, but it does allow you to have user intervention. I.e. If you can pause the test until the Captcha is entered & allow the user to do it themself.

Another alternative is something like https://www.deathbycaptcha.com/ or similar service to farm it out to humans somewhere. (I've personally never used this.)

[voshawn]

ohhh that would be really cool!

[AutomateAaron]

I'll create a repo & add you as a collaborator. I'll see if I can get a POC working, but it will probably be a little while since I'm pretty busy with work leading up to the holidays.

[AutomateAaron]

So, to follow up on this a little bit, I made this repo however I ran into an insta-ban from lottery.broadway.com, in theory they shouldn't be able to detect it but I may need to do something like what they suggest in this SO question.

But, it seems like this may be a good deal more difficult than originally hoped.

[voshawn]

Haha that's amazing. Challenge accepted.