shipping_pole_url and it's purpose?

[rycao18]

To whom it may concern,

I've been trying to get this bot working again, and I've come across something that I can't really figure out. I was wondering if I could get some insight from one of the bot's contributors as to what exactly these lines of code do, specifically the const shipping_pole_url and what that's purpose is? What exactly is that supposed to return? I think after the shopify update, this no longer exists? I was wondering why this const was there and what I should be looking for instead.

In case you're wondering, this is from the ship method

const $ = cheerio.load(body);
    const shipping_pole_url = $(
      'div[data-poll-refresh="[data-step=shipping_method]"]'
    ).attr('data-poll-target');
    if (shipping_pole_url === undefined) {
      const firstShippingOption = $(
        'div.content-box__row .radio-wrapper'
      ).attr('data-shipping-method');
      if (firstShippingOption == undefined) {
        log(
          `${config.base_url} is Incompatible, sorry for the inconvenience. A browser checkout session will be opened momentarily.`
        );
        open(url);
        process.exit(1);
      } else {
        return submitShipping(config, slackBot, {
          type: 'direct',
          value: firstShippingOption,
          auth_token: $('input[name="authenticity_token"]').val(),
        });
      }
    }
    return submitShipping(config, slackBot, {
      type: 'poll',
      value: shipping_pole_url,
    });
  }