Notes

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver_path = "./drivers/geckodriver"

import time
import os
import pyautogui
pyautogui.FAILSAFE = True

# These are some global sleep variables, for each of the expected sleep times
# May need to be changed depending how fast or slow a persons computer is
# For now we will pick some conservative times, so things should work out of the box

# For tabbing, arrow keys, and interacting with a single webpage
shortSleep = 0.2

# For all other loading, including file uploads, page refreshes or reloads, etc.
longSleep = 5

# This will get the username and password from a text file
# Supports multiple logins, line separated
# Returns list of username,password


def getCredentials():

# Open/read the file
file = open("login.txt")
file = file.read().splitlines()
creds = ['','']
for credentials in file:
credentials = credentials.split()
creds[0] = credentials[0]
creds[1] = credentials[1]
return creds

# This will retrieve the relevant info for the ad posting
# Returns title, price, description
def getAdInformation(directory):

title, price, description = open("./ad.txt").read().split("n", 2)
return title, price, description

# This will return the absolute path to all images
# Returns a list of absolute paths to images
def getAdImagePaths(directory):
ads = os.getcwd() + "/ads/" + directory
files = os.listdir(ads)

# We will go through this list and remove the hidden files as well as Ad.txt
# This will assume all remaining files are images so make sure they are!
# Otherwise bad things might happen
images = []
for file in files:
if file[0] != "." and file != "ad.txt":
images.append(ads + "/" + file)
return images

# This retrieves the directory name of each ad
# Returns list of ad folder names
def getAds():
ads = os.getcwd() + "/ads/"
ads = os.listdir(ads)
return ads

# Logs us into facebook
# Returns the browser object
def login(creds):

creds = getCredentials()

# Init the browser, in this case firefox
# Take us to facebook.com and maximize the window
browser = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=driver_path) # (executable_path='geckodriver')
browser.maximize_window()
browser.get("https://www.facebook.com")

# Login by finding the correct fields by ID
browser.find_element_by_id('email').send_keys(creds[0])
browser.find_element_by_id("pass").send_keys(creds[1])
browser.find_element_by_name('login').click()

# Wait for page load
time.sleep(longSleep)

# Use this to close the silly remember login details button that appears every time
pyautogui.press('escape')
time.sleep(shortSleep)
return browser

# Post the ad
def postAd(browser, directory):
title, price, description = getAdInformation(directory)

# Allow page to load
time.sleep(longSleep)

# Click the "Sell Something" button by using the absolute path to the element
# Allow page to load
browser.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div/div/div[1]/div/div/div/button').click()
time.sleep(longSleep)

# Click the "Item for Sale" button using the link text
# Allow page to load
browser.find_element_by_link_text("Item for Sale").click()
time.sleep(longSleep)

# Click the category field by using the absolute path
browser.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id="'jsc_c_1a'"]/div").click()
time.sleep(shortSleep)

# Type the item category, then navigate to the title
# In the future, this could also be an element in the ad text
pyautogui.typewrite('Furniture')
time.sleep(shortSleep)
pyautogui.press("down")
time.sleep(shortSleep)
pyautogui.press('enter')
time.sleep(shortSleep)
pyautogui.press('tab')
time.sleep(shortSleep)
pyautogui.press('tab')

# Type the item name, then navigate to the price
pyautogui.typewrite(title)
time.sleep(shortSleep)
pyautogui.press('tab')

# Type the item price, then navigate to the description
pyautogui.typewrite(price)
time.sleep(shortSleep)
pyautogui.press('tab')
time.sleep(shortSleep)
pyautogui.press('tab')

# Type the item description, then navigate to the add images button
pyautogui.typewrite(description)
time.sleep(shortSleep)
pyautogui.press('tab')
time.sleep(shortSleep)
pyautogui.press('tab')
time.sleep(shortSleep)

# Select the images button
# Allow file selection window to load
# Leave lots of time for slower computers
pyautogui.press('enter')
time.sleep(longSleep)

# Get the image paths from the ad folder
images = getAdImagePaths(directory)

# Create the file string and enter it into the image selection window
# Allow files to be uploaded
# I think really slow internet could mess this part up, so we will give it some generous load time (5 seconds)
files = ""
for imagePath in images:
files += '"' + imagePath + '" '

time.sleep(longSleep)
pyautogui.typewrite(files)
time.sleep(shortSleep)
pyautogui.press('enter')
time.sleep(longSleep)

# Scroll down so next button is in view to be clicked
pyautogui.press("pagedown")
time.sleep(shortSleep)

# Click next button
# Allow page to load
browser.find_element_by_xpath(
"/html/body/div[6]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div[3]/div/div[2]/div/div/span/button/span").click()
time.sleep(longSleep)

# Press enter on post
pyautogui.press('enter')

# Wait for things to finalize before refreshing
time.sleep(longSleep)

# Refresh the page
# I think this helps because the element names/paths get changed each consecutive sell on the same page
browser.refresh()
time.sleep(longSleep)


def main():

credentials = getCredentials()
# For each username/password provided, post all the ads
for creds in credentials:
browser = login(creds)

# Click the "Selling" button, to take us to the selling page
browser.get("https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/create/item")

# Here is where we could get it to automatically delete all ads we currently have listed
# Currently must be done by hand

# Retrieve the name of each ad folder
ads = getAds()

# For each ad folder, post the ad
# Make this a separate function probably soon
for directory in ads:

try:
postAd(browser, directory)
except:
# If something goes wrong with the ad, clicking an element, or anything else
# Just restart and go to the next ad
browser.refresh()
time.sleep(longSleep)

# Here we could either logout and login on the new account
# But for now we will just close the browser and open a new one and start over
# Closing a browser shouldn't need a longSleep, but who knows
browser.close()
time.sleep(shortSleep)

print("All ads posted on all accounts, safe to close windows and stuff")

main()