28 May, 2022
Song of the Day: World War II (Pt. 2) - Wax Fang
Found a project to chase, and it shouldn’t even take too long!
Despite my inability to actually do much in the way of homelabbing this summer, I can certainly continue to check for deals for pieces of tech to take back to NY with me. Having browsed r/homelabsales, I have come across quite a few deals that I’ve missed out on that I might have snatched up. So, I decided I might as well try my skills at scraping the subreddit for stuff I want to see if I can’t keep myself from missing out. Having looked into the “praw” library of the Reddit API for python, this seems pretty straightforward. Plus, I should be able to reuse the same repo to watch other subreddits in the future, like mechanical keyboard sales or pedalboard sales.
To accomplish this, I am creating json files to store:
The total value of the post is then calculated to determine what level of action is required (i.e. email, ping, discord message, none, etc).