1. Go to the game on github pages and familiarise yourself with how it works:
https://github.com/ozh/cookieclicker (new version)
2. Create a bot using Selenium and Python to click on the cookie as fast as possible.
Note that you will need to find a way to automatically dismiss the language selection before you can get started.
3. Every 5 seconds, check the right-hand pane to see which upgrades are affordable and purchase the most expensive one. You'll need to check how much money (cookies) you have against the price of each upgrade.
e.g. both Grandma and Cursor are affordable as we have 105 cookies, but Grandma is the more expensive one, so we'll purchase that instead of the cursor.
I reckon the most challenging part will be figuring out how to select the most expensive item every 5 seconds, since the upgrades become available only gradually over time.
HINT 1: https://www.w3schools.com/python/ref_string_split.asp
HINT 2: https://www.w3schools.com/python/ref_string_strip.asp
HINT 3: https://www.w3schools.com/python/ref_string_replace.asp
HINT 4: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13293269/how-would-i-stop-a-while-loop-after-n-amount-of-time
4. After 5 minutes have passed since starting the game, stop the bot and print the "cookies/second". e.g. this is mine:
5. Once you've managed to get the bot to work, feel free to tweak the algorithm if you think there is a better way to play the game. e.g. Change the time, instead of every 5 seconds to check the upgrades, what if you did every second or every 10 seconds? Or maybe the bot should buy all the affordable upgrades. Post your algorithm in the Q&A and impress us all if you manage to get a higher cookies/second with your algo.