Freelancer Requirements:
1) Excellent English. I will be able to tell from your communications with me if it’s good enough; if your English sucks this project is not for you, sorry.
2) Timeliness and responsibility. Ability to produce quality results under short deadlines.
Project Requirements:
General scope: Scrape (collect/compile) ads being run on Facebook social network.
Detailed requirements:
Advertisements on Facebook are mostly targetted according to user’s sex and age. The script will login into a user’s profile (for example user A will be female 25-35 and user B will be male 18-20) and will then start refreshing a certain page on Facebook to gather ads. Usually there are 3 ads per page, displayed on the right hand side of the page.
Type of info about each ad collected:
1) Profile Type: sex and age <— this is determined by user login being used by the script
2) Date and Time Collected
3) Ad headline
4) Ad text
5) Ad image
5) URL where the ad links
The script should be able to run on standard HostGator webhosting for unlimited period of time. There should be “Start” and “Stop” buttons.
Output: Output should be on a dynamic webpage where I could choose “user profile”, date range and then the script would output the list of ads with all neccessary info for each ad.
For testing purposes I recommend you create a Facebook login or two.
