Generate .exe program to parse Steamgifts.com to have a chance to win Steam games based on your wishlist

steamgifts.py

import queue
import requests
import urllib3
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

STEAM_GIFTS_URL = "https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaways/search?type=wishlist"
USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0"
POST_URL = "https://www.steamgifts.com/ajax.php"
COOKIE = {
    'PHPSESSID': 'needs to be replaced with your PHPSESSID'
}


def executeQuery(url, header):
    result = requests.get(url, headers=header, cookies=COOKIE)
    result.raise_for_status()
    result.encoding = "utf-8"
    content = result.content

    soup = BeautifulSoup(content, "html.parser")

    xsrf_token = soup.find_all("input", {"name": "xsrf_token", "type": "hidden"})[
        0].get('value')
        
    game_code = get_game_code_from_url(url)

    data = {
        "xsrf_token": xsrf_token,
        "do": "entry_insert",
        "code": game_code
    }

    header = {
        'Accept': 'application/json, text/javascript',
        'Content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8',
        'User-Agent': USER_AGENT
    }

    print("Entering giveaway " + url)
    requests.post(POST_URL, data=data, headers=header, cookies=COOKIE)


def get_game_code_from_url(url):
    start = "/giveaway/"
    end = "/"

    return url[url.find(start) + len(start):url.rfind(end)]


def main():
    header = {
        'Accept-Encoding': 'identity',
        'User-Agent': USER_AGENT
    }

    result = requests.get(STEAM_GIFTS_URL, headers=header, cookies=COOKIE)
    result.raise_for_status()
    content = result.content

    soup = BeautifulSoup(content, "html.parser")
    links = soup.find_all("a", "giveaway__heading__name")

    for element in links:
        pinned = element.find_parent("div", "pinned-giveaways__outer-wrap")

        if pinned is None:
            try:
                url = STEAM_GIFTS_URL + element.attrs['href']
                executeQuery(url, header)
            except IndexError:
                print('Error with ' + url)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

steamgifts.spec

# -*- mode: python -*-

block_cipher = None

a = Analysis(['steamgifts.py'],
             pathex=['D:\\git\\your_folder'],
             binaries=[],
             datas=[],
             hiddenimports=[],
             hookspath=[],
             runtime_hooks=[],
             excludes=[],
             win_no_prefer_redirects=False,
             win_private_assemblies=False,
             cipher=block_cipher)
pyz = PYZ(a.pure, a.zipped_data,
             cipher=block_cipher)
exe = EXE(pyz, Tree('..\\your_folder\\'),
          a.scripts,
          a.binaries,
          a.zipfiles,
          a.datas,
          name='Steamgifts',
          debug=False,
          strip=False,
          upx=True,
          console=True)
        

zREADME.txt

1- Install dependencies
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You must first install python !

Once it it installed, run those commands

pip install beautifulsoup4
pip install requests
pip install urllib3
pip install pyinstaller

2- Replace the COOKIE constant
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[This example is on Chrome, but you can use any browser]

1- Log in to your account on steamgifts.com
2- Open the developper tool
3- Click on the Application tab, then on Cookies on the left. Select htts://www.steamgifts.com
4- Locate the cookie name PHPSESSID and copy the value associated with this one
5- Paste it in the steamgifts.py (replace the text 'needs to be replaced with your PHPSESSID')

3- Replace the path in steamgifts.spec
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1- Replace the path on the line 
	"pathex=['D:\\git\\your_folder'],"
	with the absolute path of your folder containing both files.

2- Replace the name of the folder on the line
	"exe = EXE(pyz, Tree('..\\your_folder\\'),"
	with the name of your folder.

4- Create the .exe
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pyinstaller steamgifts.spec

5- Run the app
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The application will now be generated as a standalone app in the dist folder of the safe directory.