github.com• Jun 20, 2025• 1 min read
Show HN: Resy Reservation Scalper BotURL is linked to the repo. I figured I'd make a quick post explaining how I created a scalper bot for dinner reservations in New York to resell them for profit.Resy is a very interesting platform to mess around with. I still consider myself to be a noobish developer, but even I can see that there are many glaring flaws on the platform. The most annoying thing that I've encountered on their website though is that they misuse the 500 response and essentially throw it around for anything that isn't a 200 or 400.Before making a full scalper bot, I created a scraper that would check the availability of the top restaurants in New York every 15 seconds or so. If a good reservation was available, the script would send me a discord webhook with the link to the restaurant so that I could go claim the dinner reservation manually. After doing this for a few months I figured I might as well try scaling things up since I was making a few thousand dollars a month from this stuff at that point.I thoug