048-the-coockie-factory-new

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What the assignment asks

Create a bot with Selenium and Python that clicks the cookie as fast as possible. It must dismiss the language selection by itself before it starts.

open_game loads the page.
dismiss_language waits until the English button is visible, clicks it, and then waits until the big cookie is visible. The game needs a few seconds to start after the language is chosen, so the bot polls (every 0.2 seconds, at most 20 seconds) instead of sleeping for a fixed time.
click_cookie clicks #bigCookie once. If a banner or a re-render blocks the click for a moment, the bot tries again on the next round.
A loop calls click_cookie until the time is up. In a 15 second run in the container the bot clicked 344 times, and the screenshot above shows 342 cookies.

cookie-clicker-bot --headless --duration 15 --screenshot step-2.png

Wait for a condition, not for a time. A fixed sleep is either too short (the bot fails) or too long (the bot wastes time). Polling for "the cookie is visible" is both faster and safer.
Keep the browser behind a port. The loop knows only GamePort (open_game, dismiss_language, click_cookie, ...). The Selenium code lives in one adapter, so the loop is tested with a fake game in a few milliseconds.
Time a loop with a clock you can replace. click_and_buy takes the clock as a parameter; the tests give it a fake clock and check the number of clicks exactly.

Cookie Clicker Bot

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