Our great sponsors
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Nodemon.io
Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server - perfect for development
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SurveyJS
Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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mitmproxy
An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.
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puppeteer to access the link href inside an automated browser environment (these verification systems use redirects and JavaScript so sending a simple GET request will not do in most cases)
nodemon: this devDependency automatically reruns our app when a file in the project changes. Run:
cd into it and npm init (assuming you have node.js installed
To automate the creation of online accounts, we need to perform the same http requests that a user does when signing up programmatically. If it is a website, you can use the DevTools to inspect the network traffic and look it up. If it is an app, you can use an emulator and a tool like mitmproxy to monitor http requests. Then you can write a quite simple script which creates hundreds of user accounts in a matter of seconds.
express to setup a server that listens for incoming http requests
cheerio to parse the HTML structure of an incoming email and filter out the link we need to click to verify our email address by an attribute (in this case the text Content of the link but it could be any html attribute)