ebayKleinanzeigenAlert - (ebAlert)

Small CLI program that will send you a Telegram message for every new posts on the specific links of the Ebay Kleinanzeigen website.

No API required - Only URL of the query.

Install

1. Clone this repository

   git clone https://github.com/vinc3PO/ebayKleinanzeigenAlert

2. Navigate to the cloned repository

   cd ebayKleinanzeigenAlert

3. Create a Telegram Bot
   1. Open the chat with @BotFather
   2. Enter /newbot
   3. Enter the name of your Bot (e.g. eBay Kleinanzeigen Bot)
   4. Enter an unique username for your bot (e.g. my_ebay_kleinanzeigen_bot)
   5. Copy the token
4. Get you Telegram Message ID
   1. Open the chat with @RawDataBot
   2. Enter /start
   3. Copy the message ID. Either from message/from/id or message/chat/id. The message ID looks like 417417807.
5. Set environment variables TOKEN and CHAT_ID. Or hard code your token & message ID in ebAlert/core/config.py.
6. Install the dependencies

   pip install .

7. Run the ebAlert CLI

   python -m ebAlert

Usage & Example

• ebAlert links [opts] to show, add, remove links

• ebAlert links --help to get list of options for the links

• ebAlert start to start receiving notification

• ebAlert links -a "https://www.ebay...k0l9354r20" This assumes that you just had a look through the web page already, so no notification will be send.

• Typically, this would be run as a cron job on an hourly basis.

Requirements

• A telegram bot API token and your personal conversation id
• Python 3
• click, requests, bs4 and sqlalchemy (arguably sqlalchemy is a little overkill for that purpose)

ChangeLog

1.4 -> 1.5

• Update Requirement for requests
• Change Domain Name

1.2 -> 1.4

• Fix change in Ebay class naming

  1.1 -> 1.2

• No price fix (dandud100)

• Updated Readme (nilsreichardt)

  1.0 -> 1.1

• Refactoring
• Removing most of the data added to database as it was not used
• Move to SQLalchemy 1.4
• Adding testing suite
• Better handling of special characters that messed up the telegram message

• Preparing for multiple chat id

  0.6 -> 1.0

• Refactoring.
• Add TOKEN and CHAT_ID taken from environment variable.
• Fix title and city and distance if so.
• Update telegram message.

Future Plans

• add functionality to add links directly via telegram.

Development Branch

dev_telegram

• Bot data stored in the database
• Multibot allowed
• Possibility to choose towards which bot goes which notification
• Docker

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