kijiji-manager 0.1.1

App for viewing, posting, reposting, and deleting your Kijiji ads

Kijiji Manager

Kijiji Manager app for viewing, posting, reposting, and deleting your Kijiji ads.

Built using the Flask framework with Python 3.6+. Completely API driven, with no web scraping. Runs a local webserver which provides the web user interface.

Kijiji Manager is able to handle all types of ads under every Kijiji category (although not every ad type has been extensively tested).

If you find any bugs with posting ads, please create a new issue to report it.

Requirements

Kijiji Manager requires Python 3.6+.

Minimum dependencies

• Flask
• Flask-WTF
• Flask-Login
• Flask-Executor
• WTForms
• httpx
• xmltodict
• is-safe-url
• phonenumbers

Installation

1. Install from source
   1. Clone this repository

      git clone https://github.com/jackm/kijiji-manager.git
      cd kijiji-manager
      

   2. Create a new virtualenv (optional but highly recommended)

      python3 -m venv venv
      source venv/bin/activate
      

      • When using a virtualenv, you must source the venv/bin/activate script each time you start a new shell, otherwise the installed Python packages will not be available
      • If using a Debian based Linux distro, and the venv Python library is not found or if there is an error about missing ensurepip, you will have to apt install python3-venv first
      • If using Windows, you may have to use the py command in place of python or python3
      • If using Windows, the activate script will be at venv/Scripts/Activate instead
      • See the Python virtual environments tutorial for more information
   3. Install the kijiji-manager package from the current directory
      pip install .
2. Copy the sample config file at kijiji_manager/kijiji-manager-sample.cfg and rename it to kijiji-manager.cfg, putting it in the instance folder
   • Create a folder named instance at the root of this repository if it does not exist
3. Edit the secret key variable on the first line in instance/kijiji-manager.cfg to a random value
   • To generate a random value you can run the following and copy the output:
     python -c "import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(16))"
4. Run the app from a shell/terminal: python -m kijiji_manager or kijiji-manager -c instance/kijiji-manager.cfg
   • Append --help to see all possible command line arguments
5. Open a browser and go to http://localhost:5000/ or http://127.0.0.1:5000/
   • Cookies must be enabled in order to log in
6. Login using an existing Kijiji account
   • You must register for a new account on kijiji.ca if you do not yet have one

For all subsequent runs, start the app again using python -m kijiji_manager or kijiji-manager -c instance/kijiji-manager.cfg and then go to the web interface in your browser. You can also leave the app running in the terminal if you wish. No background HTTP calls are made unless you refresh or load new pages.

Command line arguments

usage: kijiji-manager [-h] [-c CONFIG] [-b BIND] [-p PORT] [-d]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
                        path to config file
  -b BIND, --bind BIND  interface to bind to (default: localhost)
  -p PORT, --port PORT  port to bind to (default: 5000)
  -d, --debug           enable debugging

Screenshots

Credits

Many of the core architecture concepts have been borrowed from the Kijiji-Reposter project. Many thanks to rybodiddly for the work they have done, especially on the Kijiji API.