"Agent" or "Script"

[Jimbo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jimbo]

I have a need to run a script to login to my II account and search for a particular area to see if an exchange is available.

I have used this type of script when attempting to test certain transactions on our enterprise software at work but have not seen anything like it for public use.

I don't know much about bidding on e-bay, although I plan to learn, but from I hear you can set a "script" or "agent" to check on your favorite item for auction and make automatic bids for you.

This is is they type of functionality I want to use anywhere on the web where I repetitively do exactly the same thing.

Any thoughts??? Any suggestions or websites you can point me toward?

Thanxxx in advance for your help...

[Guest Close Quarterbore]

What you want to do is extremely complicated but possible.

Can you program in PHP? If so, you simply write a script that will perform specific actions based on specific pages and in a format that the host site is expecting to see.

The problem is websites are wise to this going on and if too many people d things like this the website you are tring to browse changes a couple minor things and your scripts will not work anymore.

With that said, you could rite a script on a server or even a local PC that could log into a site, do your search and if it finds something specific you want to store that information or send you an e-mail. PHP is powerful and it is the engine that drives this site...

Good Luck!

[Jimbo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jimbo]

What you want to do is extremely complicated but possible.

Can you program in PHP? If so, you simply write a script that will perform specific actions based on specific pages and in a format that the host site is expecting to see.

The problem is websites are wise to this going on and if too many people d things like this the website you are tring to browse changes a couple minor things and your scripts will not work anymore.

With that said, you could rite a script on a server or even a local PC that could log into a site, do your search and if it finds something specific you want to store that information or send you an e-mail. PHP is powerful and it is the engine that drives this site...

Good Luck!

Ken,

That is exactly what I want but was hoping that there was a graphical interface that would make it easy to use for us programming illiterates. I've done some programming in a former life but not enough to make it worthwhile to do in this instance. I thought there would be some geneous out there who has a tool that can follow your mouse movements and mouse clicks in order to do a repeat performance... over and over and over again. Or I could set it to do it just when I set the script to run.

Any thought to such a tool available for the net available to the public?

PS - now that I am thinking of it these are types of agents that bring down e-mail system and produce all those unwanted junk e-mails. I certainly don't want my work or use of such a tool to be viewed in that same light...

[Guest Close Quarterbore]

There are scripts out there that do this type of thing and I think you might try googling for "Buyer Agent Bot" or perhaps "Buyer Bot" and you may find info.

They will cost you however!

Some of the code I have been playing with gets into that area and when you start logging onto a site, pull down data, manipulate the data, and then decide on actions based on the data you receive... Well, this is some heavy duty operations!

And I am only trying to do it in the context of sending a payment to PayPal and getting confirmation that the item was paid for (See the classifieds section of the site here -> that is exactly how the PayPal payment works ... but you are seeking to do much more!

[Jimbo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jimbo]

I was thinking about it and thought that it would be worth asking about. I did find something under a search on "foxfire" that might be good.

I'll do the searches you mention and see if anything comes up.

Thanxxx much for the information.