Hello everyone,

As most of us already know, when starting a new classified site, we should manually copy ads from another sites

https://osclasspoint.com/blog/how-to-start-new-classifieds-b4

"Manually copy 10-20 listings each day to your osclass. Do not forget to upload pictures as well. For better SEO, slightly modify title and description of these listings, so your site does not look like pure duplicate in search engines. Set listing's expiration to at least 90 days."


This is kind of a hard and time consuming manual work for over 200 or 500 ads. For example I can hardly reach 200 listings incluing the user's ones.
Having said that I was wondering if there is any automated way to copy ads from another site like olx for example.
Even finding and downloading pictures for a single ad would be enough, since clicking on each pictures and downloading it manually is the most time consuming task. The stopping point for me is to list all the pictures from an ad. Pictures seem to be linked to an external media server and shown with random names and locations to the user side. Here is an example location of a single picture:

https://apollo-frankfurt.akamaized.net/v1/files/lqrmovf0dovk1-BG/image;s=800x600

Where all associated pictures locations are unknown for the frontend user.

I've noiced there are some plugins allowing to import ads via xml format, however the xml should have been already populated in prior to the import action.


Any ideas or guidance would be highly appreciated.


Thanks!

I am interested too.
Any online scrapper I tried isn't capable to get the home number or the email address.
Without these is useless to harvest ads and import them.to osclass.
You will have only not useful content

It is not easy to do something like that, especially because of categories and locations integrity.

I am interested too.
Any online scrapper I tried isn't capable to get the home number or the email address.
Without these is useless to harvest ads and import them.to osclass.
You will have only not useful content

You can scrap the ads with python beautifulsoup, some of the email addresses are saved in image format that can readed by the python as well.

Send your details in private and I try help you.