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Re:Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is ... by jdellinger on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @03:32AM (#22746541)
While I generally agree that you should use the best tool for the job, for small and simple scripts I see nothing wrong with picking a language your comfortable with.

I wonder, why do you think python is a better alternative? I would understand bash since it is dependency free, but I don't see any advantage for python vs. nodejs

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Re:Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is ... by tasubotadas on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @08:11AM (#22747846)
Python has Standard Library while NodeJS does not.
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Re:Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is ... by owl57 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @12:59PM (#22750879)
How? Both Python and Node have some https client in their standard libraries, and both have headless Chrome drivers (what this script uses) in easily installed third-party libraries.
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