Monitor auctions on Ebay automatically
Currently all auction data that JBidwatcher Companion can access, must be entered into the system manually (through JBidwatcher). This can become tedious and time consuming. To compile price data over longer periods of time, it would be desirable to have an automatic process that searches for matching auctions on Ebay and enters them into the system. The process could be run as a daemon or a cron job.
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Necessary components:
* Screen scraping the Ebay website. Maybe a scriptable JBidwatcher could do this.
* Classifier to reject unwanted auctions. Must have machine learning capabilities.
* Machine learning UI. The user must teach the classifier, which auctions are interesting. For example distinguish a camera from a battery for this model of camera.
* The rest :-). Database management, scheduling of screen scraping activity, ...
Maybe interesting as tutorial on web scraping:
http://
Maybe these browser libraries are useful:
https:/
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