FOOTSITES
INFORMATION
Botting Footsites can be pretty straight forward. There are a few things you need to understand that we will explain but the main focus on Footsites is not getting cancelled. As with every site the aim is to get as many pairs as possible. Footsites make it extremely hard to cop multiples but that is talked about in another guide. In this guide we will talk about how to effectively bot Footsites.
FOOTSITE OVERVIEW
The word "Footsites" is a name given to 6+ sites. They are all essentially exactly the same just under different names. They drop the same, they often drop the same product and drop at the same time. The 5 main Footsites are:
Footlocker EU is split into 2 different regions; Old and New. Below is a list of all old and new region Footlocker EU sites
New Regions
GB - United Kingdom 🇬🇧
DE - Germany 🇩🇪
FR - France 🇫🇷
NL - Netherlands 🇳🇱
Old Regions
BE - Belgium 🇧🇪
NO - Norway 🇳🇴
DL - Denmark 🇩🇰
IE - Ireland 🇮🇪
PT - Portugal 🇵🇹
HU - Hungary ðŸ‡ðŸ‡º
CZ - Czech Republic 🇨🇿
GR - Greece 🇬🇷
PL - Poland 🇵🇱
AT - Austria 🇦🇹
ES - Spain 🇪🇸
IT - Italy 🇮🇹
LU - Luxembourg 🇱🇺
Footlocker US sites commonly drop at 10am EST. Despite Footsites every changing, best efforts to stop bots, they dominate this site type leaving it almost impossible to cop manually from this site. This is one of the main sites that many botters are able to hundreds if not thousands of pairs from. Botting this site type can be expensive, tedious and demoralising however it can also be very rewarding if done right.
The main US Footsites are Footlocker US, EastBay, ChampsSports and Footaction. These 4 sites are all basically the same under different names. Its a way for Footsites to spread traffic accross 4 different websites instead of 1 causing horrible performance. These 4 sites will often drop the same products and have a synchronised release calendar. However sometimes not all 4 sites will drop, perhaps only 2 or even 1 will drop an item. It all depends.
Footsites drops go on for hours. Items do not go out of stock instantly. Its a long process and requires quite a lot of preparation.
SETUP
Keywords
Keywords for Footsites are pretty straight forward. Its simply the SKU of the product which is provided in DreamCook. This D1503100 is an example of a Footsite SKU for a product. Most Footsites will share the same SKU for the same product but often times Footlocker will have a different SKU to EB, Champs and FTA.
Delays
As Footsite drops go on for hours there is no need to low delays which Is why we recommend the following.
Monitor: 3333-4444ms
Retry/Error: 4444-10,000ms
Start Time
This depends on the bot. Some bots suggest you start when the Footsite queue goes up which is about 5 minutes before the drop and some bots suggest you start around 15 minutes before the drop. Read up on your bots guide and do what they suggest.
Proxies
Proxies play a very significant role in botting Footsites and the quality of your proxies are paramount to your success. In the next section we will discuss task count in detail but to summarise, Footsite botting is very dependent on quantity of tasks. The more tasks you are able to run on this site type the higher chance you have of checking out. This means you will want to scale as much as you possibly can. We will talk about Footsite botting efficiency later on.
ISP's
ISP proxies work very well on Footsites. Footsites will often crash and be extremely slow. Ideally you would want to run all your tasks on ISP's as they dont get banned as often as residentials and they are much faster and cleaner running. However unless you have unlimited funds ISP's are extremely expensive and as we said, Footsites require quantity of task so its very hard to scale with ISP's. Ideally you will want to run as many ISP's as you can afford.
Residential
As we said, botting Footsites is a mix between quality and quantity with a lean more towards quantity. You want to be running as many tasks as you can and this is where residentials play their part. As you are able to generate unlimited amounts of residential proxies you can essentially scale your task setup to as high as you can afford data wise. Usually all 4 main Footsites will drop in the US and you will want to aim to run all 4 of them meaning your going to need a-lot of proxies. However residential proxies are often very slow, get banned easily and often time out on Footsites meaning you need to buy an extremely high quality residential plan.
Task Count
The number of tasks you run is very important for a site such as Footsites. Ideally you want to run thousands upon thousands of tasks but this is not possible for a number of reasons.
As we know the more tasks you run the higher chance you have of hitting however this also means the more data you will use which is going to cost you. When people bot Footsites they try to save as much data as possible and overall keep their setup to a minimum. This is the opposite of what you should do. For Footsites we highly suggest you go balls deep. As all 4 sites will usually drop you should be aiming to run ATLEAST 400 tasks per site brining the total to 1600 tasks.
Captchas
Footsites use DataDome which is an anti-bot software. If your tasks proxy gets flagged you will need to solve a ReCaptcha V2. A-lot of your tasks are going to get flagged by DataDome meaning you will have to solve a-lot of captchas especially on your residential tasks. ISP's dont usually get flagged at all. However, recently bots have developed a feature called "Rotate Proxy" or something along those lines. This means, if a tasks proxy gets flagged, instead of making you solve a captcha it will remove the flagged proxy, pick a new one and try again. It will keep doing this over and over until it finds a new one that is not flagged by DD. So this means you will want to put as many proxies into your proxy lists as possible. Lets say you are running 500 tasks using a proxy list called List A. We would recommend you put atleast 1000 residential proxies in that list. As you can generate as many residential proxies as you want there is no harm in putting thousands upon thousands of resis in your proxy list even if your only running a couple hundred tasks. You will use the same amount of data running 500 tasks using a proxy list with 500 proxies in it as running 500 tasks using a proxy list with thousands of proxies in it.
FOOTSITE BOTTING EFFICIENCY
Botting Footsites can be expensive as you will have to purchase a-lot of proxy data and a-lot of ISP's. This can rack up to a-lot of money but we will explain why going balls deep is a better method than trying to cut costs.
Go big or go home. You are up against thousands of other people when you bot Footsites and a majority of people will try to cut costs by only running a few hundred tasks. Trying to cut cost and keep your setup to a minimum is the wrong approach you should take. This is more often than not going to result in failure meaning you spent a-bit of money and got nothing instead of spending a-lot of money and potentially getting a-lot of return. Going big is obviously very risky as there is still a HIGH chance that you come out of a Footsite drop after spending hundreds of dollars on proxies with nothing. But that is the harsh truth about botting Footsites well.
As Footsites are one of the main sites that drop a sneaker on a release day you will want to perfect your setup. Proxies play a huge role and are often overlooked. As people need to scale their task count they will look for cheap residential providers so they can make a bunch of tasks for a cheap price. This is again, the wrong approach. As Residentials get banned easily its essential that you spend the money and get some high quality Residential data. It is more financially efficient to jump straight into the deep end instead of hovering around the shallow end.
As DreamCook provides the stock numbers before every major Footsite release it makes it much easier to sort out your task counts. You will want to focus most of your power on the sites with the most stock whilst still maintaining a healthy amount of tasks on the sites with lower stock. As many people will have the same idea as you its always smart to ensure you are running a good amount of tasks on every site even if the stock is very low on 1 of the sites.
Ideally you will want to run around 1500+ tasks in total splitting that up in correspondence to the stock numbers of each Footsite site dropping. You can obviously hit using a lower number of tasks however this is what we recommend the minimum should be for a number of reasons.
BOTTING TIPS
Ensure your running atleast around 1500 tasks spread across all Footsites dropping
Run as much as you possibly can
Remember going big is much more efficient than keep it to a minimum
Instead of aiming to use as little Residential data as possible, aim to use as much Residential data as possible
(without going overboard so your resi data runs out in 3 mins)This mind set has proven to be a-lot more successful.Make sure you are purchasing your Residential plan from a proven successful proxy company with not too many users, its better to find a high quality, lowkey provider than a mainstream one
For each Footsite drop make sure you have around 3-5GB+ of proxy data and if possible but not 100% necessary; at least 50 ISP's. Yes this is expensive, but welcome to effectively botting Footsites.
If the stock numbers are under ~3000 total. Don't even bother running, its a waste of proxy data. Only run ISP tasks.
Use rotate proxy captcha mode for Residential task but don't use it for ISP tasks
Start when your bot tells you to start
Run as many tasks as you can
Be patient and expect errors
Don't expect running thousands of tasks is instantly going to cop you hundreds of pairs. Botting Footsites is brutal and over time it will click.
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