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The purpose of this bot is to get an Nvidia card. It tries multiple things to do that.

• Currently, nvidia-snatcher is not capable of purchasing a card for you
• Scrapes multiple websites for patterns of being stocked
  • API requests are a work in progress (very soon)
• Opens browser when stock is available
• Sends an email to you when stock is avaiable (must have Gmail)

2020-09-18T07:06:28.535Z info :: ✖ [nvidia] nvidia founders edition is still out of stock
2020-09-18T07:06:31.241Z info :: ✖ [nvidia] nvidia founders edition is still out of stock
2020-09-18T07:06:34.212Z info :: ✖ [bestbuy] nvidia founder edition is still out of stock
2020-09-18T07:06:39.878Z info :: ✖ [bandh] gigabyte black is still out of stock
2020-09-18T07:06:43.236Z info :: ✖ [bestbuy] gigabyte black is still out of stock
2020-09-18T07:06:43.318Z info :: ↗ trying stores again
2020-09-18T07:06:43.318Z info :: 🚀🚀🚀 [nvidia] nvidia founders edition IN STOCK 🚀🚀🚀
2020-09-18T07:06:43.318Z info :: https://store.nvidia.com/store/nvidia/en_US/buy/productID.5438481700/clearCart.yes/nextPage.QuickBuyCartPage

Linux, macOS, and Windows are all capable operating systems.

You do not need any computer skills, smarts, or anything of that nature. You are very capable as you have made it this far. Some basic understanding how a terminal, git, and or Node.js is a bonus, but that does not limit you to getting nvidia-snatcher running!

• Node.js 14
• git
• Clone this project git clone https://github.com/jef/nvidia-snatcher.git
• Run npm install
• Copy .env.example to a new file .env and edit the .env file to your liking using your favorite text editor
  • More on this in customization
• Run npm run start to start

At any point you want the program to stop, use Ctrl + C.

👉 Please visit the wiki if you need more help with installation.

Available via GitHub Container Registry.

Use docker run --cap-add=SYS_ADMIN -it --rm --env-file ./.env ghcr.io/jef/nvidia-snatcher:nightly to run.

The command npm run start:dev can be used instead of npm run start to automatically restart the project when filesystem changes are detected in the src/ folder or .env file.

To customize nvidia-snatcher, make a copy of .env-example as .env and make any changes to your liking. All environment variables are optional.

Here is a list of variables that you can use to customize your newly copied .env file:

👉 If you have multi-factor authentication (MFA), you will need to create an app password and use this instead of your Gmail password.

👉 You can find your computer's user agent by searching google for "my user agent"

👉 You can test your notification configuration by running npm run test:notification.

👉 Data usage is known to be high. This is expected as the program scrapes many websites in parallel 24/7. To help reduce this, use LOW_BANDWIDTH="true". We are looking into other solutions as well, but is low priority.

COUNTRY is only used by the nvidia and nvidia-api stores.

Q: What's Node.js and how do I install it? Visit their website and download and install it. Very straight forward. Otherwise, Google more information related to your system needs.

Q: Will this harm my computer? No.

Q: Have you gotten a card yet? YES! 🎉 🚀

Q: Will I get banned from of the stores? Perhaps, but getting a card is a nice outcome.

Q: I got a problem and need help! Join the Discord or file an issue, I'll do my best to get to you. I work a full time job and this is only a hobby of mine.

Q: How do I get the latest code? Take look at this wiki page

Q: Why don't my notifications work? There are probably an issue [that] has already been resolved

Q: I'd love to contribute, how do I do that? Make a pull request! All contributions are welcome.

Q: Why do I have to download all this stuff just to get this bot working? Well, I would rather you didn't either. See #11.

Thanks to the great contributors that make this project possible

Special shout to initial developers:

• @andirew
• @fuckingrobot
• @ioncaza
• @malbert69