Note: Please be aware this was my first Python project. A lot of conventions/best practices have been violated. At some point I'd like to rewrite this. For the time being though, I still think there's a lot of useful code scattered throughout that could be helpful for others. And of course feel free to submit a pull request for any issues/improvements! Thanks :)
This is a collection of search tools that automate reporting and provide useful analytics for eBay searches. These tools were created with an emphasis in reusability and are easily adapted for a variety of use cases.
- Reports item price history and calculates estimated value
- Reports all active items within user defined constraints
- Creates automated SMS alerts for newly listed items within constraints
- Automatically removes previously alerted items to prevent duplicates
- Filters unnecessary key words using NLP and user defined stop words list
- Highly modular and adheres to the UNIX Design Philosophy
- Designed with serverless architecture in mind (AWS Lambda)
Clone all files from the GitHub repository. Edit the config.py file with your eBay Developer key and phone number.
These tools have been developed and tested on Ubuntu 18.04.1. The software has additionally been tested on Windows 7 x64, Windows 10 x64, Mac OS X High Sierra, and Mac OS X Mojave.
- FindingService – eBay RESTful API used to gather eBay item data
- Requests – Retrieves information from GET requests
- Boto3 – AWS Python SDK
- AWS SNS – Text messaging service
- AWS Comprehend – Provides sentiment analysis
- SpaCy – NLP library for stop word removal and tokenization
- Colorama - Used to change console text color
- Matplotlib - Used to plot graphs
- Implementation of trend lines and linear regression price estimates in main.py
- Implementation of more robust scheduling system
- Add an option for email notifications
- Add an option to select "Text", "Email", or "None" notifications
- Increased usage of SpaCy NLP throughout
- Jack Owens - Initial work -
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
- Ryan Chesler: YouTube tutorial "Make an eBay Item Alert System Using Python"
- Beverly Myers: Assistance with Linear Regression