048-the-coockie-factory-new

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Cookie Clicker Bot

The five lecture steps
Run it
Results
How the code is organised

A Selenium bot that plays Cookie Clicker for you: it clicks the big cookie, buys the most expensive upgrade it can afford every 5 seconds and prints the cookies per second after 5 minutes. It is day 48 of Udemy's 100 Days of Code: The Complete Python Pro Bootcamp.

The five lecture steps

Step	What the bot learns	Page
1	Get to know the game and its page	Step 1
2	Dismiss the language selection and click the cookie	Step 2
3	Every 5 seconds buy the most expensive affordable upgrade	Step 3
4	Stop after 5 minutes and print the cookies per second	Step 4
5	Tweak the strategy and compare runs	Step 5

Each page shows a screenshot of the game at that step and explains what we gained in it.

Run it

python -m venv .venv
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"
cookie-clicker-bot

To keep your desktop free, run it in Docker (headless Chromium): docker build -t cookie-clicker-bot . and docker run --rm cookie-clicker-bot. The README of the repository has the full instructions for Windows, Linux and macOS, and for the tests.

Results

Run	cookies/second
Lecture step 4: check every 5 seconds, buy one (alone on the computer)	18.9
Lecture step 5: check every 10 seconds, buy one (best of the comparison)	18.2

The rows come from different conditions; Step 5 explains how they were measured.

How the code is organised

domain/: the rules (parsing the page text, choosing the upgrade), with no Selenium.
application/: the game loop, which talks to the game through a port.
infrastructure/: the Selenium adapter and the Chromium factory.
constants.py: every constant.

The tests use a fake driver, so they run in a second and need no browser.

Cookie Clicker Bot

Language

Cookie Clicker Bot, a solution to day 48 of Udemy 100 Days of Code. English · Dansk · Bahasa Malaysia