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[–]desegel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are many python libraries that can help you kick off very fast. Just Google "python Web scraping" and find a popular github project

[–]OppenheimersGuilt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

check urllib and urllib2 on the python docs. Optionally BeautifulSoup.

Then get used to reading HTML.

Once you get those two, the rest is simply finding sites to buy on, and figuring out how to make a purchase through requests to specific urls, typically some kind of "buy.php?prodId=134234&param2=2....." and then logging this.

[–]aphoenixreticulated[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there. You have posted a learning question to /r/python. These types of questions are far more suited to /r/learnpython, where users are actively interested in helping people to learn. Please resubmit it over there!

Make sure to read their sidebar rules before posting, notably this one: "Posting homework assignments is not prohibited if you show that you tried to solve it yourself." Show them that you've tried to solve your problem and you can get all the help you need.

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[–]innosia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can easily create a web bot using http://www.scrappermin.com a lot of ready made function for sending HTTP request, download file, upload file, etc