SS browser extension

Distill Web Monitor can be used to watch for loan availability on specific loan pages.

If you run Distil, it will prevent SS logging you out (keep SS open in a TAB to be sure).

You don't even need it set up to alert you of anything; just have it monitoring a page and turn off the alerts 

I use Javascript to hide/highlight loans. I can share it:

Instructions:

1. Go to Chrome Store and install TamperMonkey:
chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo

2. Click on its icon (on the upper right side) and add a new script

Replace the script for this:

EDIT: Click HERE to go to the thread of CURRENT version and comments


// ==UserScript==
// @name         FilterLoans
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.1
// @description  Improve funcionality of Available Loans at Saving Stream
// @author       0Risk
// @match        https://savingstream.co.uk/loans/available
// @grant        none
// @require https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js
// ==/UserScript==

(
   function() {
   'use strict';
   //
   // config variables
   //
   var theGood = ['PBL000','DFL000'];           // highlight those loans, eg: ['PBL091','PBL092']
   var theBad = ['PBL999'];                     // hide those loans
   var minValue = 9.00;                         // hide loans with availability below this number
   var goodTerm = 50;                           // hightlight loans longer than this number
   var badTerm = 0;                             // hide loans with remaining days below this number
   // end of config
   //
   //
   var assetColumn = 0;
   var termColumn = 6;
   var rows = document.getElementsByTagName("table")[0].rows;
   var tds;
   var availableColumn = rows[0].cells.length - 1;         // available column is the last column
   //
   //check if any element of array a is in string b
   function isIn(a, b) {
       for (var x in a) {
           if (b.search(a[x]) != -1) {
               return true;
           }
       }
       return false;
   }
   // highlight the good
   for (var i=1; i < rows.length; i++) {
       if (isIn(theGood, rows[i].cells[assetColumn].textContent) ||
           rows[i].cells[termColumn].textContent.replace('days','').replace(' ','') > goodTerm) {
           rows[i].style.color = 'blue';
           rows[i].style.fontSize = "20px";
       }
   }
   // hide the bad, the ugly and the poor
   for (var i=1; i < rows.length; i++) {
       if (isIn(theBad, rows[i].cells[assetColumn].textContent) ||
           rows[i].cells[termColumn].textContent.replace('days','').replace(' ','') < badTerm ||
           rows[i].cells[availableColumn].textContent.replace('£', '') < minValue) {
           rows[i].style.display = 'none';
       }
   }
})();

Notice that you can set some parameters on the script to hide or highlight loans based on their numbers or remaining term (see section Config Variables)


3. Save it (Ctrl S).

4. It should work now. If you use Firefox, you can use the GreaseMonkey add-on instead of TamperMonkey.

I wouldn't even know what to do with that.

addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/alertbox/

As I understand it, the captchas stop the bots so that, unless you have some great AI machine, your software cannot actually make the loan application.

I believe I am now a leading expert in store fronts, palm trees, street signs, rivers and mountains. I can even recognise eggs and coffee in new ways but I am completely c**p at selecting around a bloody aeroplane!

I may be old fashioned but I still use Internet Explorer (leaving myself wide open to abuse from the non-IE-lovers...)

Any such software must poll the site at intervals, looking for changes (equivalent to repeatedly clicking the browser refresh button).

If all SS investors were to run this sort of thing and their 'refresh intervals' were, on average, too short then the SS site would be brought to its knees - akin to a 'denial of service' attack.

Imagine 2000 investors each refreshing, say, every five seconds. The math is simple. How would the SS site stand up?

And of course, it would be tempting to refresh as fast as possible to up your chances of winning the FFF race.