- Latest release of Python3
- Selenium for Python
- Pyautogui
- Geckodriver (by Mozilla, found here)
- Mozilla Firefox
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Make sure the geckodriver.exe, login.txt, and ads directory are in the same directory as marketplace.exe.
Documents\MarketplaceProgram\marketplace.py Documents\MarketplaceProgram\geckodriver.exe Documents\MarketplaceProgram\ads\couch\... Documents\MarketplaceProgram\ads\chair\... -
login.txt should an email and a password on a single line, separated by a comma followed by a space
username@email.com, password123- If you would like for multiple accounts to post the same ads simply add more login details on separate lines
username@email.com, password123 person@email.com, livinglife toronto@email.com, mapleleafs -
Make sure each ad contains an Ad.txt and at least one image
Documents\MarketplaceProgram\ads\chair\Ad.txt Documents\MarketplaceProgram\ads\chair\chairPicture.jpg -
Make sure Ad.txt is properly formatted
- The first line should be the item name
- The second line should be the item price
- Everything else should be the item description
Climbing Shoes $100 Never worn, in the packaging Size 42, excellent for slab problems If interested call or text 123-456-7890 -
Run marketplace.py from a power shell terminal
- Let your computer sit by itself for around 30 seconds per ad
- Because the program uses your mouse and keyboard, you cannot use your computer while it runs
- You will know it is finished when it stops for longer than 10 seconds (When the last ad from the ads folder is posted)
- Or when the terminal closes
- You'll figure it out, its not like it does anything cool like shoot fireworks
- Allow for multiple accounts, so each ad can be posted to multiple accounts
Speed up the program from waiting 2 seconds after every action to on page load- Using exclusive waits or something? Waiting for the last element to load then performing our operations
- Could also just eliminate unnecessary waits, like waiting after the page is already loaded
- This also isn't that big of a deal if you just leave this to run overnight, but if you really want to pump out as many ads as possible then optimizing for time becomes more important
- Improve the ad input, using CSV or spreadsheet files instead of notepad
- Alternatively could just make what goes where in the textfile more clear
- Potentially just a single spreadsheet, and a folder full of pictures
- That way you could just name the pictures in the spreadsheet instead of 0,1,2, etc
Do some exception handling, so the program won't just die when something goes wrongThis isn't that big of a deal, not much should go wrong- Basically all I might need is if an ad is formatted incorrectly or doens't have a photo to refresh and move to the next one
Hardcoded coordinates for screensize, specifically for remember passwordIssues with some of the ads- Changing how some of the code worked fixed these issues as far as I can tell
It seems like a lot of these selected elements could be found just by doing link search instead of element ID, not that element ID is wrong or doesn't work- Actually it seems like absolute path is almost necessary for some
- So I think if I made this in a C language it would be an executable with no other requirements? Im not sure though