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Show HN: Free Coffee via Octopus Energy's Internal GraphQL API

Posted by pi3rre on Monday March 09, 2026 @11:02AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://frontbot.com/blog/how-i-automated-octopus-energy-coffee/

Octopus Energy gives Octoplus members a free weekly coffee at Nero or Greggs, but codes drop before 5am and are gone instantly. I reverse engineered the GraphQL API their web app uses, built a small Python poller on a VPS, and now claim it automatically every Monday night.

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