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BidWatcher

A simple listing watcher used to scour listings on Ebay and sends text messages via Twilio when bids are almost up. Specify a search entry to search on Ebay, a maximum bid price along with a max with shipping, and the number of milliseconds before the auction is over to be notified as well as your phone number.

To get this to run, note that you must have your TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID and TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN to have Twilio to work as noted in their documentation. TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER, the Twilio phone number the text message is sent from must also be set.

USAGE:

python bid_watch.py SEARCH_ENTRY MAX_BID_PRICE MAX_WITH_SHIPPING MILLISECONDS_BEFORE_NOTIF PHONE_NUMBER_1 PHONE_NUMBER_2 ...

EXAMPLE:

python bid_watch.py "PAX prime 2015 saturday" 45.00 50.00 300000 1231414251

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