Leboncoin.fr alert scraper

Because leboncoin doesn't provide a real time alert system, the goal of this project is to create your own, to be notified when a new ad is available.

Requirements

• This project depends on Python3.4 and newer, be careful of which version of python you are using
• Then install the requirements with this command : pip install -r requirements.txt

Instructions

Go check the file settings.py and add your own settings :

• To find the url of your need, just go on leboncoin website, make a search of whatever you want, and copy and paste the url in the corresponding setting parameter. You can add has many urls as you want.
• Then, fill the informations about the email details, receiver, sender, etc.

Once requirements satisfied, the idea is to run the script on a server, using a cron job.

To do so :

• ssh to your server
• git clone this project
• add your settings
• create a new cronjob crontab -e
• add a line like * * * * * /path/to/your/python/executable /home/user/path/to/the/script/main.py Like this the script will be executed every minute
• exit the crontab with ctrl + x if you use nano editor, and you're good to go !