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Re:Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after s... by exdsq on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:11PM (#29512398)
> 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...

They run start_driver() inside a while loop with 10000 iterations

> How else would you get around navigating the DOM which this has to match precisely?

For that specific one I'd probably try "//*[contains(text(), 'Apply now')]", if they add a single element to that page the entire xpath will fail in the code example

> Very subjective?

Do you have two first names?

> Agree with this but maybe it's not possible for some reason in regards to how the webpage is configured?

Maybe! Still, I bet you it's possible to wait for an element even if it's your own action taking effect.

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Re:Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after s... by edmcnulty101 on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:23PM (#29512605)
> They run start_driver() inside a while loop with 10000 iterations

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.

EDIT: Gruez(below) made the point that the code isn't written to be async so this is definite issue.

> For that specific one I'd probably try "//*[contains(text(), 'Apply now')]", if they add a single element to that page the entire xpath will fail in the code example

You're prob right about this to be honest.

However, there's two elements with 'Apply now' on the page. A button with 'Apply now' and a dropdown with 'Apply now' that opens when you click that button. Lol

https://jobs.kellogg.com/job/Lancaster-Permanent-Production-...

Welcome to scraping hell!

> Do you have two first names?

It's generating fake names. It doesn't matter.

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Re:Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after s... by exdsq on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:47PM (#29512999)
> However, there's two elements with 'Apply now' on the page. A button with 'Apply now' and a dropdown with 'Apply now' that opens when you click that button. Lol

You can chain them! It's still better to [0] the text one and then click the pop-up than use div chains the whole way down. Yes it's not perfect, if I was testing the site as part of Kellogg I'd ask for test ids to make them unique, but it's still immune to additional divs.

> It's generating fake names. It doesn't matter.

This hurts my soul

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Re:Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after s... by edmcnulty101 on Friday December 10, 2021 @03:03PM (#29514813)
Jeff Jeff and John John are frequent applicants at Kellogg for some reason.
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