local-only Node 24 node:sqlite Playwright + CDP

TTM Bot — heads off the thaiticketmajor.com ticket queue

A personal ticket-booking bot for thaiticketmajor.com that tries to put a seat in your cart before the next human caller can find the zone map. Built to out-run the queue when the site stalls under load.

Source: github.com/Olay097056/ttm-bot

Why local, not Cloudflare

thaiticketmajor.com sits behind Akamai's bot sensor wall. Cloudflare-worker IPs trip the sensor and require solving a CAPTCHA on every page, but a browser running on this machine's home IP sails through on the cached sensor state. So the bot runs here, not in the cloud — a deliberate design choice, not a limit.

What it does

• Polls TTM every 5 seconds (with adaptive 10s fallback when probes go slow).
• Drives a Playwright session through the live booking flow the moment an event opens.
• Holds a cart at the payment-method screen and waits for the human to pay.
• Never touches payment — a script that hits a real credit card is not worth the saved minute.

The protocol (live flow on Kodaline 972/81487, verified)

zones.php  →  click <area href="#festival.php#STDA">
          →  festival.php?k=<token>
          →  set #book_cnt (jQuery val+change), click #booknow
          →  AJAX returns {result:true}
          →  enroll.php  (auto-fill attendee name + ☑ policy)
          →  click #btn_regnow
          →  paymentall.php (cart HELD)
  

Race-the-network, not tick-and-wait — the entire flow finishes in ~42 s from POST /api/poll/run to booking.status = in_cart.

Local-only by design (demo is static)

This page is the only public demo. The dashboard itself runs only on http://localhost:8787/ on the operator's machine. The repo ships run_here.bat — double-click, log in once, the dashboard auto-fills the bearer token and refreshes its own status panel every 2 s:

cd ttm-bot
run_here.bat           # deps → migrate → mint → serve → open browser

Status panel (what the operator sees)

🟢 Server   up 12h 34m   v0.3.0   poll every 5s
🟢 Chrome   ready · CDP ✓ · pid 29088
🍪 Cookie   minted 2h ago · expires in 9h 58m
📋 Events   12 armed · 0 polling · 1 in_cart · 0 failed
🔄 Last poll 3s ago · 142ms · ✓

Stack

• Node.js 24+ with node:sqlite (in-tree binding)
• Playwright on top of Chrome via CDP
• Single TypeScript process — no containers, no queues, no Cloudflare
• One node:sqlite database file under .data/