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by KMnO4 1197 days ago
Reminds me of a similar hack I did recently. I wanted to book tickets for a show in Vegas, and for whatever reason the “ticket bundle” which included the show plus extras was about $20 cheaper than just the show on its own.

The only problem was selecting the bundle would automatically choose the seat (on the far side which weren’t good), skipping the seat selection modal.

I realized that if you had a seat in your cart, it would reserve it for 15 minutes and the bundle would pick the next available seat. Since I wanted central seats, I wrote a simple Puppeteer script which selected the bundle in multiple browser instances, reserving all the unwanted seats until mine was finally available.