Problem

My kid's daycare is always texting me for more diapers and greek yogurt for my 2 year-old son. I wanted to give them a button to click so an order of yogurt/diapers would ship to the daycare.

Solution

Amazon sells click-and-order "Dash" buttons for certain products, but not the items I wanted. I ordered a $10 AWS IoT button on Amazon and programmed it to start/stop an EC2 instance, which would, upon every boot, run a headless browser session written in Ruby that would visit Amazon.com, log in, order the items, check out, and log out.

Specs

1. Button: 1st gen AWS IoT button, set to trigger a Lambda job (Python 2.7)
2. EC2: Ubuntu Xenial (16.04) on a t2.micro instance
3. Packages: Ruby 2.4, Selenium Webdriver, ChromDriver, Xvfb

Steps

1. Launch and configure EC2 Ubuntu instance to successfully run browser scripts upon boot.
   • Use a t2.micro instance on AWS free tier
   • Replace the default rc.local file with the one in this repo
   • Add the place_order.rb file to the /ubuntu/home directory
   • Copy the ARN to use in Step 3
2. Configure button to WiFi network.
3. Create Lambda function to boot instance, wait for scripts to run, then stop instance, and set IoT button as the trigger.
   • Instructions here
4. Create Lambda function to boot the instance (use ARN from Step 1) and set IoT button as the trigger.
5. Click the button, wait, then check your Amazon cart. Presto!

Contribution

In order to contribute, clone the repository https://github.com/fordprior/order-anything-button and create a pull request after submitting your changes