Like, I have 40 points now and need to go to sleep, but I wanna enter that 60 points Fallout 4 giveaway ending in 6-7 hours and I'll sleep more than 8 hours.

What if you could open a giveaway page and set it to automatically enter you whenever the points become available. Is that codeable?

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I'm thinking you could use Google Scripts to set up a trigger to run a POST request every number of minutes, until succeeded. That way you wouldn't need to leave your browser open. I'm just a beginner, so I don't know if it's possible. I'll look into this when I get home if someone else doesn't beat me to it.

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With Google Scripts you wouldn't need any device on. You just set the trigger and Google runs it when the time comes. There's a daily limit, but you could set it to like every 1 hour to prevent it from exceeding the limit. More about it: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/triggers/installable

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True. :P

Oh sorry, I thought that page had everything. Yeah, it's pretty neat. I use it for my BLAEO rankings, they're updated every 12 hours.

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Remove entries for giveaways that end later (if invite only, bookmark them for re-entering later).

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How about putting a alarm at your phone 30 min before the giveaway ends so you wake up, enter the giveaway and then continue sleeping? xD
That or program a script, that shouldn't be hard. There are some userscripts there to enhance the site. You can look how those are made to modify them to your own requisites.

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So basically a script huh ...

Pretty sure you entered yourself in a lot more then that giveaway

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Well, it's definitely codable. Just use setTimeout() for a click() using javascript for example.
But more interesting would be, if SteamGifts would allow reserving entries for the very reason posted in the OP.
If you don't have enough points, there should be an option to reserve an entry.
I think that would be cool.

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an autojoin script, that's what everyone should have here!

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You mean doesn't everyone have the autojoin script? I thought it stopped being a SteamGifts Premium only feature.

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Just leave another giveaway that ends at a later time and join the Fallout 4 giveaway.

Also, in regards to scripts mentioned above, those are not really allowed on SG.

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Cake is good! Have a good one. :P

By the way, it isn't? Something like this could be useful. For all the "exploit" butthurts on this forum, it could be limited to one reservation at a time.

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Then correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't comments content as well? If so, my replies features aren't allowed.

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So those scripts that add an automatic comment when entering giveaways, in that case would it be allowed, since you're not really writing the comments?

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Weird logic. :P I guess I won't be allowed to implement my Bump Discussions feature then.

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Just thought It'd be useful, not that everyone hates it like you all say

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May I suggest you close the thread, before a really dirty discussion starts. This kind of thread can get out of hand.
Merry Christmas!

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