Data Mining Tool for Stubhub Active and Sold Listings
$250-750 USD
Closed
Posted over 11 years ago
$250-750 USD
Paid on delivery
I need a tool that can access active and sold listing data from Stubhub for any event of my choosing.
The information would need to be scraped on a periodic and immediate basis of my choosing to capture new events and sales. Scraping would be deeply involved, including clicking through a number of screens in order to get to an event, inputting dummy selling information, view active and sold tickets for the event, and recording this information into an excel file.
For example, if I said I want to pull information from the New Jersey Nets at Los Angeles Clippers Tickets the tool would need to:
Go to Main Selling Landing Page ([login to view URL]) >> Start Selling >> Basketball Tickets >> NBA Tickets >> 2011 – 2012 Regular Season Tickets >> Los Angeles Clippers Tickets >> Check box in New Jersey Nets at Los Angeles Clippers Tickets >> Continue >> select I’ll deliver these tickets electronically >> Select Yes >> choose General Admission' is printed on the tickets >> enter “2” in the quantity box >> choose continue >> and then extract the information from the Sold and Unsold tabs for each of the zones in the section box
You can see that whenever you click on each section, it shows line item entry for each sale. I want a tool that can pull all of the sales data from the Stubhub server so i can analyze in excel. The excel spit out should look like this:
Group Section Row Qty Price Sale Date
Infield Terrace 454 3 8 70 5/20/2011
Infield Terrace 454 8 4 75 4/28/2011
Infield Terrace 454 1 4 82 4/16/2011
Infield Terrace 454 1 2 55 3/31/2011
Infield Terrace 454 1 6 82 3/10/2011
Infield Terrace 454 2 6 81 3/10/2011
Infield Terrace 453 6 3 53 4/11/2011
For each event, there can be any number of items ranging from 0 - 5000 line items.
As you can probably see, this will likely require a fairly in depth amount of effort to accomplish. I have seen projects like this one all over boards so some of you may already have a solution created. This would be the optimal solution for me, however, if you can put in the time and effort to complete this project I would be happy to work with you.
*We have a no-nonsense approach: we don't intend to waste your time and talents - we expect a similar professional attitude from you.
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*Upon completion of a 100% working, smoothly running, fully automated and absolutely bug-free website, payments are made straight away.
*A full working demo will be required before final payment.
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Thanks!
Joseph
I am an experienced .NET (C#) developer with over 10 years development experience with the industries of media, gas and finance. My professional experience is largely with search, navigation and data visualisation - and the techniques required for your needs are the same as those required for what I do professionally.
I've written a number of plugins for Excel and would suggest that Excel be extended with a custom button to extract data (and to automate form filling etc) and to populate a worksheet with the scraped data (hence the increase in bid amount).
An installer to install the excel 2010 solution would also be included.
As you say, the work is tedious, but not difficult.
moving through the screens, analyzing the elements on various browsers and seeing how different data is listed. A pain for sure, but not a huge challenge.
and yes ... stub313hub