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Re:Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after s... by gruez on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:10PM (#29512360)
>Can you be more clear on this? I don't see where this is happening. There's a start_drive function that they call once in main and use that reference the entire time.

>https://github.com/SeanDaBlack/KelloggBot/blob/main/req.py#L...

the call to "start_driver" is inside the "while (i < 10000)" loop

Re:Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after s... by edmcnulty101 on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:18PM (#29512523)
I mean wouldn't that allow 10,000 parallel operations? If you waited for each one to complete, then close each one, it would take forever.
Re:Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after s... by gruez on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:25PM (#29512630)
Theoretically it can be rewritten to do the requests in parallel, but currently it isn't.
Re:Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after s... by exdsq on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:48PM (#29513008)
If it was you don't want 10k non-headless Chrome browsers on your computer, there isn't enough RAM in the world
Re:Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after s... by edmcnulty101 on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:42PM (#29512919)
Ah good point! Yeah. That is a definite issue then. I should link this thread on the code's github. The author is getting a free code review. haha.
Re:Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after s... by exdsq on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:43PM (#29514565)
Hahaha I'll link this entire thread to their github