What is gpt-promo-scanner?

This is a Python tool built to find and use promotional discount codes for ChatGPT Business, the paid team plan that OpenAI normally sells for fifty dollars per seat per month. According to the README, OpenAI has given some partner companies discount codes worth forty to seventy one percent off, and this tool tries to discover which codes exist and whether they still work. The process has four stages. First, the tool generates guesses for possible codes by combining a list of known partner company names with country codes, following a naming pattern the author noticed in codes already found. Second, it checks each guess against OpenAI's checkout system to see whether it is valid, routing its requests through different country specific proxy servers using a proxy client called Clash so that requests appear to come from the matching region. Third, for any code that checks out, it queries a pricing API to find the discounted price before tax. Fourth, a separate script generates a direct Stripe payment link for a chosen code, country, and account login token, which can then be opened in a browser to complete a purchase at the discounted rate. The README documents several practical obstacles the author ran into, including the target service blocking rapid bursts of requests, login tokens expiring every few hours and needing to be refreshed by hand from the browser, and inconsistent country code suffixes between the codes discovered so far. This tool describes systematically probing for and using discount codes that were issued only to specific partner companies, not to the general public, and doing so by spoofing the user's apparent country through proxy routing. That is different from a company publishing a public promo code, and using codes this way likely conflicts with the terms of service of the platform involved and could be considered a form of fraud against the discount program. Readers should be aware of that before using it.