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Analysing the Environment¶

Assessing the TOS (Terms of Service)¶

This is performed to validate the companies TOS, in terms of the usage of the prizes.

Note of statement 19 falsification through the usage of temporary emails, may cause flag in system resulting in the following as per current understanding:
- Prize Revoke
- Legal Involvement dependent on internal tracking of emails and IP address usage

Completion Attempt¶

Previously I used a@gmail.com (an email that is not mine) to test a successful request. Then processed another due to inconsistent network recordings (failure to produce request as expected) upon second attempt, a request was made and below are the findings

Request Analysis¶

Headers¶

Base64 for the API endpoint is interesting.

API Endpoint (Possible Point of Discovery)¶

The Base64 is a specific type Base64-URL-Safe which changes characters in the string to be available to be used in URLs.

Replacements are as follows:
- _ is /
- - is +

Base64 URL Safe to standard base64:
URCkiJFrNPP6caD7lV/jjGVH4B8hoTyZRvnlmgFZkq7Qb54XnbwSxHuEFIFjfQ5kOvXIMzfIDlLPGt4n8fNx0Q==

It appears to be some form of non human-formatted data, as a result plans switched to web scraping.

Web Scraping Planning¶

Puppeteer Plan:
- Obtain Temporary Email with Inbox
- Enter all necessary validation steps.
- Await cloudflare completion (Potential for automation)
- Click play button.
- Record Response Status and Information into Log File (In event of failure, retry)
- Save screenshot to Folder and

graph TD
    A[Start: Puppeteer] --> B[Access Temp Email Service Website]
    B --> C[Scrape Temporary Email Address]
    C --> D[Navigate to Hungry Horses Competition]
    D --> E[Fill Form with Temp Email]
    E --> F[Submit Form]
    F --> G{Cloudflare Authorization}
    G -->|Success| H[Wait for Email from Hungry Horses Competition]
    G -->|Failure| I[Retry with Same Email]
    I --> E
    H --> J[Return to Temp Email Service]
    J --> K[Wait for Email from Hungry Horses Competition]
    K --> L[Screenshot Email]
    L --> M[Process Email]
    M --> N[Forward Email to Another Email]
    N --> O[End]

Choosing a Temp Mail Service¶

smailpro provides 3 temporary email addresses, which limits the number of concurrent registrations possible during the program's runtime.

01/08/2025¶

Project Cancellation but here's a code screenshot, I had during the process, stored.

_{JavaScript using Puppetteer library running with NodeJS.}

Project Termination¶

Notice: Failure to produce result before the 31st of July :(

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