Auto Renew Automation for ebay Kleinanzeigen Offers

Offers on ebay-kleinanzeigen.de are online for 60 day and have to been renewed manually before that period of time passes.

So why not automate that to never ever have to care about expiring offers? 😜

Workflow

Automation is possible because ebay sends an email containing the renewal link one week before the expiring date of the offer. So basically what the application does, is as simple as the following:

Workflow

1. reading your inbox

2. looking for email with the right subject

3. parsing these emails and find the renewal link

4. following the link

5. deleting the email, so it won’t be parsed again

6. voilà, that’s it! 🥳

Requirements

• Mailbox with IMAP access

• PHP 8

Setup

Follow the following steps to also auto renew your offers:

Application Installation

1. Clone or download this repo

2. Fill in your IMAP data to imap_sample.json and rename it to imap.json

Cron Job

You can run the application manually be running php automation.php in your project directory or opening automation.php in your browser if you’re in a web server environment.

To automate the process you can simply set up a cron job, which fires the script every week:

0 0 * * 7