🔔 Olx Notifier

Follow ads for your chosen category on OLX.pl

📖 Description

It is the python app - Web Scraper for checking and saving list of active ads in chosen category.

🚀 Usage

Make sure you have installed:

• alive_progress
• BeautifulSoup4
• certifi
• lxml
• telegram_send

Notifying

You can choose between two options of notifying

• By telegram message (preferred option)
• By e-mail

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a) Notifying by telegram message

To do so you first need to configure your telegram_send package.

To do so:

1. First create your new telegram bot by writing on telegram to the BotFather on telegram, and create new bot by using command /newbot.
2. After filling all needed data you will be given you HTTP API token for your bot.
3. In CLI use command telegram-send configure - paste your token there, then add your freshly created bot on telegram and send him your activation password (code).
4. Voi'la - you can simply use your bot!

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b) Notifying by mail

For best experience you should use gmail along with per-app-password for your script. More about App Password for gmail - here

You should fill file named:

passes.txt

Data examples:

1. Recipient Email
2. Sender Email address
3. Sender Email app-password

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Run

To start - just run the following command at the root of your project like e.g.:

python3 main.py --url <your-url> --notify telegram
python3 main.py --url <your-url> --notify mail
python3 main.py --notify no-notify

Or schedule it to run every X minutes on your machine, by using e.g. crontab like:

| every 10min   | your path to scrapper catalog | path to your python    | parameters
*/10 * * * * cd /home/{your-user}/Olx-Notifier; /usr/bin/python3 main.py --notify telegram

Author

👤 Kamil Gustab

• Github: @gustab.kamil