Robot to monitor prices

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Once in a class the teacher commented that he programmed a "little robot" to track certain information from a website. He captured the source code of a certain page and with functions within the language could capture what he needed and display only that information. I need to do the same, I am working autonomously reselling cell phones at OLX, I want to program a little program in php, I already have a certain domain, or another language that would better adapt to the problem, to load the page I need, return the data of the mobile phones that will come according to the variables I want (ex: title, price, date and value filter) and display on the screen for me. All this thinking of practicing my algorithm, learning something new and already serve as a utility for my work. I do computer engineering and I’m looking for several challenges.

From now on, thank you, to summarize, I want guidelines of what to research to learn this and to be able to walk with my own legs from there, come out from "zero".

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Fernando, I believe you can find programs that already do what you want for OLX.

If you still want to build your own you will need to create a program that acts a little like a browser (Chrome, firefox...). Your program will need to make POST and GET calls on the OLX website and interpret the callback. One way to research how to do this is to learn how to interact with the REST API. The difference is that you will use the OLX website as an API. After you get all the information you will have to interpret everything you can to display (or store).

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