Book Listing Automation on Vinted
Budget: $30 – $250 USD
I want a program that lists books for sale on Vinted using text extracted from photos.
The process is as follows:
I will have a master folder called Vinted Listing inside this I will place other category folders (eg. Folder Name = “Picture Fiction Books” or “Baby Board Books”)
Inside these folders will be folders which will have a name which is the location of the books within the folder (eg. Folder Name = “S01”). There will be two photos of each book and always in the same order, the first photo will be the front cover of the book, the second photo will be the ISBN.
Vinted needs the following information to list books:
Photo – (supply photo 1 from each pair of photos)
Title – This needs to be extracted from the text on the front of the first photo. (It could also be done by using the ISBN photo to do a web look-up for the data of the book).
Description – This needs to be a standard description which will be copied from a text file or somewhere I can modify it if I need to, it will be something like “Ex-library book but with plenty of life left in it”. A text file inside the category folder would work for me but I’m open to other ideas.
Category – This needs to correspond to the category folder but will usually be “Entertainment – Books – Kids & Young Adults – Kids”
ISBN – This option appears once you’ve selected the book category and it needs to be the ISBN from photo 2
Condition – This will always be “good”
Price – This will normally by £1, again it would be good if these variables were in a text file which I can modify if I need to.
Parcel Size – Mostly “Small” so this should be the default.
To make it easier for me to find the book once it has sold, I would like have a locator code entered at the end of the Description, this will be in the following format: “S01_001” where S01 is the name of the location folder and the number after the _ is the number of the book listed from that folder. So for example if there are 50 photos in the folder then there will be 25 books listed from that folder (2 photos per listing) and if that folder is called S03 the final book listed will have the code S03_025 added to the end of the listing.
I don’t mind how this is solved but I have imagined it working using something like gecko-driver on Firefox or Chrome Driver, I’d prefer it to run on Firefox but can cope with Chrome also.
I’m envisioning this all running on a PC so it will have to Log In to my vinted account and then start the process. I’m happy to do this step manually or the information can be stored encrypted in the program.
Once a listing has been made for a book then the two photos need to be moved into another folder within the location folder called “Completed”
This does not need to be a very fast process and it will need to not be flagged by Vinted as a robot but ideally not too slow so that I can start the process and let it run for a while and it will list all the books steadily.
I’ll need proof of listing a whole folder without errors and without Vinted flagging it as a robot to declare the project completed.
In your bids please show me that you’ve read the whole brief and give me your proposed method of solving this problem (proof of this will be in how you say you will achieve getting the text for the description field). I’m happy to change various aspects of the brief as long as it achieves the objective.
The process is as follows:
I will have a master folder called Vinted Listing inside this I will place other category folders (eg. Folder Name = “Picture Fiction Books” or “Baby Board Books”)
Inside these folders will be folders which will have a name which is the location of the books within the folder (eg. Folder Name = “S01”). There will be two photos of each book and always in the same order, the first photo will be the front cover of the book, the second photo will be the ISBN.
Vinted needs the following information to list books:
Photo – (supply photo 1 from each pair of photos)
Title – This needs to be extracted from the text on the front of the first photo. (It could also be done by using the ISBN photo to do a web look-up for the data of the book).
Description – This needs to be a standard description which will be copied from a text file or somewhere I can modify it if I need to, it will be something like “Ex-library book but with plenty of life left in it”. A text file inside the category folder would work for me but I’m open to other ideas.
Category – This needs to correspond to the category folder but will usually be “Entertainment – Books – Kids & Young Adults – Kids”
ISBN – This option appears once you’ve selected the book category and it needs to be the ISBN from photo 2
Condition – This will always be “good”
Price – This will normally by £1, again it would be good if these variables were in a text file which I can modify if I need to.
Parcel Size – Mostly “Small” so this should be the default.
To make it easier for me to find the book once it has sold, I would like have a locator code entered at the end of the Description, this will be in the following format: “S01_001” where S01 is the name of the location folder and the number after the _ is the number of the book listed from that folder. So for example if there are 50 photos in the folder then there will be 25 books listed from that folder (2 photos per listing) and if that folder is called S03 the final book listed will have the code S03_025 added to the end of the listing.
I don’t mind how this is solved but I have imagined it working using something like gecko-driver on Firefox or Chrome Driver, I’d prefer it to run on Firefox but can cope with Chrome also.
I’m envisioning this all running on a PC so it will have to Log In to my vinted account and then start the process. I’m happy to do this step manually or the information can be stored encrypted in the program.
Once a listing has been made for a book then the two photos need to be moved into another folder within the location folder called “Completed”
This does not need to be a very fast process and it will need to not be flagged by Vinted as a robot but ideally not too slow so that I can start the process and let it run for a while and it will list all the books steadily.
I’ll need proof of listing a whole folder without errors and without Vinted flagging it as a robot to declare the project completed.
In your bids please show me that you’ve read the whole brief and give me your proposed method of solving this problem (proof of this will be in how you say you will achieve getting the text for the description field). I’m happy to change various aspects of the brief as long as it achieves the objective.
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