samakovuluk / honk

upwork project

Honk

Here the project for uploading items to platform hk.carousell.com

Requirements for script

• Install python, which version greater 3, with adding Windows path https://datatofish.com/add-python-to-windows-path/
• Library Selenium, to install just open cmd and type pip install selenium

Instruction to start script

• You need authorize
  • Run the script savecook.py and authorize.
  • script will open website hk.carousell.com, you need log in and pass verification test of human, after successfully authorization it will automatically close.
• Fill your items in csv file, for sample you can see file sample.csv
  • there fieds: category_parent, category, category_child, title, condition(Used,New), Price, Description, Photo
• Open honk.py via notepad or IDLE, in line 12 driver = webdriver.Chrome('path') instead of path, put location of chromedriver.exe screen
  • Example my is driver = webdriver.Chrome('D:/Chromedriver_win32/chromedriver.exe')
• And Finally, run main script honk.py by giving path of csv file.
  • Open your cmd in location of script, and type python honk.py sample.csv screen

Login with other account

• Run script savecook.py. It will open website hk.carousell.com
  • Type your login and password
  • Pass verification test of human And it will automatically closed when you sucessfully authorized

How it works

Problem

We need an automated script which will upload item independently.

Solution

Project working with library Selenium. As we know Selenium is s a free (open source) automated testing suite for web applications. And this tool I used for uploading items to hk.carousell.com. Selenium is perfect decision for our task. So script doing step by step tasks.

What you need to know about Selenium

Selenium able to do what the user can does on the site. Only needs to be configured correctly. How is everything going. So for example we have task, that script need open website facebook.com click to button sign up with name websubmit.

   import selenium
   driver = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver.exe')
   driver.get('https://www.facebook.com/')
   el = driver.find_element_by_name('websubmit')
   el.click()

Attention do not forget to put full path of chromedriver.exe in driver = webdriver.Chrome('{path}')

As you see we found element by name and click, so you wanna ask how to get name of button. It is easy just open the website facebook.com, and in the button sign up click right mouse, and there will be option Inspect code and select this. After you will able to see source (html), in the right side. There will shaded code wchich is source of button. In the shaded source will be parameter name=websubmit, so we now know that name of the button is websubmit.

So in selenium there a lot of options to find elements, you can find elements by functions : `find_element_by_css' 'find_element_by_class_name' 'find_element_by_xpath'.

You can learn more about selenium here

Actions in the script

Here main actions of the script, in source you can see code implemetation of action.

• Init actions
  • Open url hk.carousell.com source
  • Uploading cookie source
  • Select language English source
  • Open url hk.carousell.com/sell
• Uploading items one by one
  • Open csv file where items source
  • Get photo value from csv and upload photo source
  • Choose category and category child source
  • Choose randomly and Put text in fields where is required source
  • Fill items fields (title, price, condition, description) source
  • Submit source
  • Wait 5 seconds
  • Write result in log file source
  • Upload next item

The project works very simply, there we getting elements by function find_element_by_xpath in xpath function we can indicate conditions for finding elements. Example we want get input checkbox with value mailing so we writing elm = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@type='checkbox'][@value='mailing']"). Now variable elm equal to checkbox element, so for click it just write elm.click(). Here is how our project works on most parts.

So let's see one of action in project. We will take action which selecting randomly in dropdown fileds.

def selectFill():
    elm = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@role='dropdown']")
    for i in range(1,len(elm)):
        #Hear we checking is the field is optional or not, if not so we selecting
        if '(Optional)' not in elm[i].text:
            elm[i].click()
            time.sleep(2)
            p = elm[i].find_element_by_xpath('parent::*')
            elem = p.find_elements_by_class_name('_1H4f-PmiEr')
            if len(elem)>0:
                elem[random.randint(0,len(elem)-1)].click()
                print('Dropdown selected')
                time.sleep(1)

Here we finding dropdown fields by xpath function find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@role='dropdown']") we go through elements. And each element we checking for required or not, if '(Optional)' not in elm[i].text: if text of element not contains text (optional) so we click elm[i].click() .