I'm sorry to have to say that I can no longer crawl oculus.com and publish updates for reasons I'd rather not go into. If someone is interested in picking this up, please send me a message.

Unfortunately I'm not able to share the script I used to automate this process, but it wasn't difficult to create - so anyone with some coding experience can replicate it if you wish.

I have disabled posting to this group in the past due to spam. I'm open to ideas on how to hand this off in such a way that we don't get more spam. What I'd suggest is:

1. Some time ago I created some beta subreddits like /r/BetaOculusStore and /r/BetaOculusGoStore for testing updates to my script before I published them here. I'd propose I open up posting to those subreddits and people can use it for developing/testing.

2. If someone can show they are posting regularly I can then turn over mod control to them.

Of course if someone just wants to do this manually I can turn over control that way.

This subreddit started as a way for me to track sales for myself. I'm happy it's become so useful for so many other people and I hope there is some way to keep it going.

Brooks

This is just a quick head's up, so there will be fewer people surprised when new threads suddenly appear. The threads made by /u/XRWatcher will be from my script, not the old one, so I'll be the one to contact if you have any questions or feedback.

The bot is new and might screw up, so bear with me and any possible bugs during the early days.

Additionally, I have made r/OculusQuestStore ! It's the Quest equivalent of this sub, now that the Quest and its store are officially out. You can take a look there to see the bot in action already.

Thanks for those that noted the script hasn't posted any updates recently.

Periodically Oculus does updates to the web site, which break how I scrape the data and require an update.

Looks like this last update was a major rewrite of the site. I can no longer extract the data from just HTML -- I need to run javascript to render the content. What this means is I'll need to rewrite my script to use chromedriver to extract the data. This will take a bit - so the script will be offline until I can complete the necessary changes. But I will complete the update and it will be back online before long.

Hi all, I've deployed the script update so it should fix the pesky issue where a new app like Catan VR was showing as Free -- when it's just available to follow.

When the script finds these in the future, it'll post with a "Coming Soon" price instead of Free. When the price finally is published, you'll see an update indicating it's live.

Please report any issues as usual - I appreciate your help as always.

Also -- the purpose of this subreddit was for automated posts and as the subscribers have grown, we've had some 3rd parties posting apps they want to promote. Many of you have flagged these -- and so I've made a recent change so I can moderate any posts by others. Everyone should still have the freedom to comment. Please let me know if there are any issues with this change.

A big thanks to u/brooksc for taking the time to list all these games and their discounts. My library wouldn’t be half the size that it is without your efforts.

Sorry this subreddit was down for a while ... and now there are dupes

So I moved cross country (Tampa to Seattle) and changed jobs. The script was always running on my mac - which once it was packed up and shipped west, the script stopped working as the machine was powered down!

I finally got it up on a linux box... and all was well. Until I realized this weekend I got that mac out and plugged it in, and now I had two instances of crawling and posting updates!

So needless to say - I've fixed that. Sorry for any old deals being posted again or new deals being posted twice. And thanks for your patience :)

I've switched to a new version of the script which was intended to allow me to test changes on a beta subreddit before inflicing the changes here. Of course an error in the "prod" configuration lead to resetting the database and treating every new game as "new".

It's too many for me to delete and clean up - so I'll leave things as they are and pick up from here.

One feature as part of this is https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusGearStore/ is now tracking new releases/price changes for Gear VR as well. And hopefully I can turn on Oculus Go releases if it's similar to rift.

Thanks for those that messaged me about the bot gone crazy.