kleinanzeigen-bot
Feedback and high-quality pull requests are highly welcome!
About
kleinanzeigen-bot is a console based application to ease publishing of ads to ebay-kleinanzeigen.de.
It is a spiritual successor to AnzeigenOrg/ebayKleinanzeigen with the following advantages:
- supports Microsoft Edge browser (Chromium based)
- compatible chromedriver is installed automatically
- better captcha handling
- config:
- use YAML or JSON for config files
- one config file per ad
- use globbing (wildcards) to select images from local disk
- reference categories by name (looked up from categories.yaml)
- logging is configurable and colorized
- provided as self-contained Windows executable kleinanzeigen-bot.exe
- source code is pylint checked and uses Python type hints
- CI builds
Installation
Installation on Windows using self-containing exe
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The following components need to be installed:
- Chromium, Google Chrome, or Chromium based Microsoft Edge browser
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Open a command/terminal window
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Download the app using
curl https://github.com/kleinanzeigen-bot/kleinanzeigen-bot/releases/download/latest/kleinanzeigen-bot.exe -o kleinanzeigen-bot.exe -
Run the app:
kleinanzeigen-bot --help
Installation from source
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The following components need to be installed:
- Chromium, Google Chrome, or Chromium based Microsoft Edge browser
- Python 3.10 or newer
- pip
- git client
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Open a command/terminal window
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Clone the repo using
git clone https://github.com/kleinanzeigen-bot/kleinanzeigen-bot/ -
Change into the directory:
cd kleinanzeigen-bot -
Install the Python dependencies using:
pip install . -
Run the app:
python -m kleinanzeigen_bot --help
Usage
Usage: kleinanzeigen-bot COMMAND [-v|--verbose] [--config=
] [--logfile=
]
Commands:
publish - (re-)publishes ads
verify - verifies the configuration files
--
help - displays this help (default command)
version - displays the application version
Configuration
All configuration files can be in YAML or JSON format.
1) Main configuration
When executing the app it by default looks for a config.yaml file in the current directory. If it does not exist it will be created automatically.
The configuration file to be used can also be specified using the --config
command line parameter. It must point to a YAML or JSON file. Valid file extensions are .json, .yaml and .yml
The following parameters can be configured:
# wild card patterns to select ad configuration files
# if relative paths are specified, then they are relative to this configuration file
ad_files:
- "my_ads/**/ad_*.json"
- "my_ads/**/ad_*.yml"
- "my_ads/**/ad_*.yaml"
# default values for ads, can be overwritten in each ad configuration file
ad_defaults:
active: true
type: # one of: OFFER, WANTED
description:
prefix:
suffix:
price_type: # one of: FIXED, NEGOTIABLE, GIVE_AWAY
shipping_type: # one of: PICKUP, SHIPPING, NOT_APPLICABLE
contact:
name:
street:
zipcode:
phone:
republication_interval: # every X days ads should be re-published
# additional name to category ID mappings, see default list at
# https://github.com/kleinanzeigen-bot/kleinanzeigen-bot/blob/main/kleinanzeigen_bot/resources/categories.yaml
categories:
#Notebooks: 161/27
#PCs: 161/228
# browser configuration
browser:
# https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
arguments:
# https://stackoverflow.com/a/50725918/5116073
- --disable-dev-shm-usage
- --no-sandbox
# --headless
# --start-maximized
binary_location: # path to custom browser executable, if not specified will be looked up on PATH
# login credentials
login:
username:
password:
2) Ad configuration
Each ad is described in a separate JSON or YAML file.
Parameter values specified in the ad_defaults section of the config.yaml file don't need to be specified again in the ad configuration file.
The following parameters can be configured:
active: # true or false
type: # one of: OFFER, WANTED
title:
description: # can be multiline, see syntax here https://yaml-multiline.info/
# built-in category name as specified in https://github.com/kleinanzeigen-bot/kleinanzeigen-bot/blob/main/kleinanzeigen_bot/resources/categories.yaml
# or custom category name as specified in config.yaml
# or category ID (e.g. 161/27)
category: Notebooks
price:
price_type: # one of: FIXED, NEGOTIABLE, GIVE_AWAY
shipping_type: # one of: PICKUP, SHIPPING, NOT_APPLICABLE
# list of wildcard patterns to select images
# if relative paths are specified, then they are relative to this ad configuration file
images:
#- laptop_*.jpg
#- laptop_*.png
contact:
name:
street:
zipcode:
phone:
republication_interval: # every X days the ad should be re-published
id: # set automatically
created_on: # set automatically
updated_on: # set automatically
Development Notes
- Installing dev dependencies:
pip install .[dev] - Running unit tests:
python -m pytestorpytest - Running linter:
python -m pylint kleinanzeigen_botorpylint kleinanzeigen_bot - Displaying effective version:
python setup.py --version - Creating Windows executable:
python setup.py py2exe - Application bootstrap works like this:
python -m kleinanzeigen_bot |-> executes 'kleinanzeigen_bot/__main__.py' |-> executes main() function of 'kleinanzeigen_bot/__init__.py' |-> executes KleinanzeigenBot().run()
License
All files in this repository are released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later.
Individual files contain the following tag instead of the full license text:
SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
This enables machine processing of license information based on the SPDX License Identifiers that are available here: https://spdx.org/licenses/.
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