Eventbrite Bot-smashing in Python with Selenium

ebsmash.py

import sys

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

from time import sleep
# import star_me_daddy.utils
from console_logging.console import Console
console = Console()
from multiprocessing.dummy import Pool
tp = Pool(10)

_this = sys.modules[__name__]
_this.attempts = 0


def loop(whoami):
    _this.attempts += 1

    console.log("Started bot #%d" % _this.attempts)
    opts = Options()
    opts.add_argument('window-size=1200x600')
    opts.add_argument(
        "user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2227.0 Safari/537.36")
    # opts.add_argument('headless')

    try:
        browser = webdriver.Chrome(
            chrome_options=opts, executable_path='./chromedriver')
        browser.set_page_load_timeout(20)
        console.info("Initialized Chrome Webdriver.")
    except Exception as e:
        console.error("Reached exception while initializing Chrome Webdriver.")
        print(e)
        return loop(whoami)

    EVENT_URL = "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/test-event-tickets-41726185143"

    # page index to auto-open tickets modal
    browser.get('%s#tickets' % EVENT_URL)

    def run():
        try:
            browser.find_element_by_tag_name('select').click()
            browser.find_element_by_css_selector('option[value="1"]').click()

            checkout_button = browser.find_element_by_css_selector(
                'button[type="submit"]')

            assert not checkout_button.get_attribute(
                'disabled'), "Couldn't checkout"

            checkout_button.click()
            console.success("Got to checkout.")

            try:
                sleep(3)
                browser.find_element_by_id(
                    'first_name').send_keys(whoami['first'])
                browser.find_element_by_id(
                    'last_name').send_keys(whoami['last'])
                browser.find_element_by_id(
                    'email_address').send_keys(whoami['email'])
                browser.find_element_by_id(
                    'confirm_email_address').send_keys(whoami['email'])
                console.success("Filled out registration for %s %s" %
                                (whoami['first'], whoami['last']))
            except Exception as e:
                console.error(e)
        except Exception as e:
            console.error("Couldn't get tickets, trying again.")
            browser.refresh()
            run()
    try:
        run()
    except Exception as e:
        console.error(e)
        browser.refresh()
        return


people = [
    {"first": "-", "last": "-", "email": "[email protected]"},
    {"first": "-", "last": "-", "email": "[email protected]"},
    {"first": "-", "last": "-", "email": "[email protected]"},
    {"first": "-", "last": "-", "email": "[email protected]"},
    {"first": "-", "last": "-", "email": "[email protected]"}
]

for person in people:
    tp.apply_async(loop, args=[person])

while True:
    1 + 1
# ^C to quit

console.success("Fin.")