BuyKim

A script to automate Kimsufi (and other OVH servers) purchase

Rationale

Recently I wanted to purchase a Kimsufi server. However, I was not the only one to want one and OVH has no queuing mechanim, leaving me the only option of reloading the availability page waiting for an opportunity to rent one.

Pretty quickly, I came up with this script: an automated tool to purchase your favorite Kimsufi model as soon as it is available without wasting your precious time waiting!

Usage

• Install requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt
• Connect your OVH account to PayPal (this seemed the best option to avoid handling Credit Card data, but PR welcome if you want to do otherwise!)
• Set the environment variables OVH_USERNAME and OVH_PASSWORD (they are used to automate the purchase itself)
• Set ref_product to the product you want (default: 150sk22) and ref_zone to the zone you want to rent it in (default: bhs, Beauharnois datacenter)
• Run python buyKim.py
• ???
• Profit!

Architecture

The script is split in two parts:

• The first part uses requests to poll OVH's availability webservice, and parses its response to find the product you want. When the response describes your product as available, the second part of the script kicks in.
• The second part uses selenium for opening the listing page, then selects your product, injects some Angular.JS-specific JavaScript for selecting your datacenter, waits for PayPal to load, and clicks on Purchase!

Contributing

Your contribution is welcome! Don't hesitate to report issues or give feedback using our Issue Tracker, and to propose features or bugfixes by submitting a pull request.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.