Over the past week, I spent my time after work on building a password reset service that allows website owners to reset their WordPress passwords quickly without technical knowledge, and that is how pwdreset was created.
WordPress comes with its own password reset functionality, but there are scenarios where the “Forget Password” does not work.
in this post, I am going to show you the way that you can reset your WordPress admin Password via FTP.
WordPress stores user credentials along with other contents in the database, to reset WordPress password using FTP we need to make be able to read and write in the database.
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when I have 2 weeks of holidays with no place to go and nothing to do in a lockdown situation, there is a high chance I will be working on a random project. This time it is a bot to check when GPU’s and PS5 are back in stock in online stores.
a couple of weeks ago I met my friend (completely legal! only 1 household) and we spend most of the time having no topics to talk about (as expected thanks to covid19), one of his biggest topics was: how bad is the availability situation of certain devices and Graphics Cards due to scalping problem.
So basically some bad guys are buying all the available stocks for these items and then put them for resale for a price that is many times more than the actual retail price. To them, this is reselling and they see no moral problem with it, the actual problem lays with how they acquire this stock.
seemingly, the way they get hold of these items faster than anyone else is by using bots and automated tools! so basically they check the stores for availability of these items non-stop and then buy whatever is available in the blink of an eye, thus the only ways for consumers to be able to shop these items are:
The idea of a bot that checks these products and lets people know when they are available seemed pretty fun to me! I’ve previously done a lot of work-related to scraping websites, doing web automation, and similar things!
So I decided to get into the business and make my own! although I could make a small amount of money for the affiliate sales I make with my bot, I was more interested in learning how to do integrations with Telegram and Discord.
That is how InStock was born. In order to use this simply open https://instock.ml and join the respective notification channel for the product, you’re eyeing to buy! For example, you can subscribe to the Telegram or Discord channel.
Basically, I have a list of products that have a relationship to a set of product links, these links can be from Amazon or other providers.
I have an instance of a browser that is controlled remotely via my code that opens these links in a small interval and checks if the item is available to be purchased. To do this I needed to write a small parser for each website that contains the logic that is needed to determine whether the product is in stock on that website or not.
Here are some of the problems I faced:
Well, I get blocked by Amazon and some other sites from time to time! I literary below up my server IP in the first 1 week of working on the project! So I needed a cheap way of rotating my IPs. to do so I needed to create my own Proxy Provider, a simple proxy scrapper. I then try to use all those proxies in multiple async requests and then cherry-pick the ones which are functional, cache them for 30 minutes and randomly pick one for making the request.
Although this has been pretty efficient, I still sometimes have problems with Amazon showing me dog photos instead of the product page, well at least I got to know the Dogs of Amazon.
One of the channels I use to update my visitors about stock availability is Twitter, I got blocked on Twitter by sending my first 3 automated tweets! They basically revoke the write permission from my application, which is crap! I’m now trying to contact them and argue the problem, hopefully, I can be up and running on Twitter again.
So far I’ve been enjoying dealing with the challenges I have while scraping. I will definitely be working on making this better and add more sources to check for stock availability. I will be keeping this project online as long as the scalping problem exists and I do not run out of money for my servers.
Well, that was pretty much it, an official blog post to call it a day. if you have checked my bot and find it interesting let me know what you think and drop me a message if you have any suggestions on what I can implement next.
Increasing team members’ engagement in meetings & discussions can be challenging, especially since many companies are practicing work from home in response to this pandemic. It’s not hard to spot the ninja members who are quiet in most of the meetings.
Have you ever found your team in a situation where you wanted to push those quiet members to engage more often in discussions, leading a meeting, or giving a presentation? What do you usually do in such times?
Or maybe you wanted a more fun way of starting your scrum meetings by randomizing the first person who speaks?
In our case, we’ve definitely tried giving round-robin, a try. to be even more simultaneous, we’ve tried random pickings too.
I literary can remember our PO doing a Google search for a Random Picker online to pick a name for something we were up to in a screen share.
So last night when I finished work, I decided to make this a bit easier for us, and maybe anyone else who uses Slack in their company by creating Random Member.
Random Member is a tiny Slack application that creates a command called /random, which you can run from any channel and group chats.
To add this app to your workspace simply open the Random Member landing page and hit Add to Slack button.
It took me one day to build and deploy Random Member, I’m looking forward to seeing it in the Slack App Directory and get your feedback!
PS: I’ve tried to make sure everything works as expected, but I’d love you to break my app. if you find any bugs please let me know to fix them.
Stripe, with no doubt, is my favorite payment gateway of all time. I’ve been integrating many payment gateways into my clients and my own systems and so far Stripe has beaten all of them.
Thankfully ResellerClub allows you to integrate your own payment gateways for your reseller. I’ve created a simple PHP script that lets you integrate Stripe in your ResellerClub Supersite and PartnerSite.
You can use this script for free and integrate Stripe payment gateway in ResellerClub in a couple of minutes.
The script is pretty simple and I’ve included an instruction file in the zip folder. Please note I’ve just created this for personal use and decided to release it to you guys for free.
It requires PHP >= 7.2. in the zip package, you can also find support files for nginx and IIS web servers.
