Is it possible to write a bot participating in promotions?

Question

PHP

Good day!
There is a website - an online store. Once a day, a promotion is held - find an advertising banner on any page among the goods, click on it and get a discount (the clicker must be authorized on the site).
Task: to write a solution that will automate the process of participation in the action without human actions.
Additional Information

• The catalog looks like: site.ru/catalog
• The link to participate in the promotion has a unique key that changes throughout the promotion period.
• The participation link looks like: http://site.ru/index.php?p=action&accept&uniq_id=key

How to implement it?

Answer 1

Once a day, a promotion is held - find an advertising banner on any page among the goods, click on it and get a discount (the clicker must be authorized on the site).

If a cookie is set during authorization (without any javascript frills), then, in my opinion, it is quite realistic to write such a bot, for example, in python (using the requests and lxml libraries to parse the page). If javascript frills are still present, then you may have to use selenium/phantom.js.

Answer 2

It is possible not to try to steal what does not belong to you, but to do honest work.
With the same labor costs, you can get a big, and - most importantly - an honest profit.

Answer 3

phantomjs.org/examples