DrAtomic / craigslist

searches for items and emails them

Description

This tool can be used to search through all the postings on craigslist for a given state or list of states and return a csv, with all the post titles, price, link to listing.

Requirements

sudo apt install firefox geckodriver
pip install -R requirements.txt

Optional

There is an optional plot of the dataframe for missing prices, i thought it was useful so I left it in

pip install matplotlib
pip install seaborn

Usage

copy this into a file named cfg.json and edit the states list, item, lowerprice, upperprice, email address, password, subject, body.

{
    "search": {
		"states": [
			"ca",
			"or"
		],
		"item": "toilet paper",
		"lowerprice": 50,
		"upperprice": 1000
    },
    "email": {
		"address": "[e-mail]",
		"password": "email_password",
		"subject": "toilet paper ad",
		"body": "hello, I'm intersted in the toilet paper. Is it still available?"
    }
}

after that is edited run

python core.py

Motivation

It was early in the pandemic and I decided to buy a graphics card, I was young and carefree. I bought my graphics card online, when it finally arrived I picked up the box and thought "wow these things are getting light" I open the box and it was empty. Someone at UPS opened the box and stole the graphics card. That changed me. I thought to myself "what would I do if I were a lowly criminal that steals graphics cards? I would sell it on craigslist" so I designed this program to find the perpetrator and send him to the proper authorities to be hanged for crimes against humanity. I have yet to find the criminal, they are still out there. However my focus changed a few weeks later.

It was the great toilet paper run of 2020. Lunatics everywhere were buying and hoarding toilet paper. They truly believed that in a pandemic world there would be no toilet paper and that their bottoms would never be clean again.

A select few of the lunatics decided that toilet paper was the new cash crop and tried to sell toilet paper on craigslist, these wackos truly believed that someone would pay 10$ per roll. Blinded by rage I finished this program. I designed this program to look for an item and email the lister. They needed to know that they were fools and I took it upon myself to let them know.

I have returned to this project because there are still lunatic scalpers out there.