Employment agency job grabber?

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  1. elmer282

    elmer282 Newbie

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    maybe you can make one :D
     
  2. ourmechanix

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    I think that is a good idea.
     
  3. expon

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    yeah, nice idea..
    I might try it later:)
     
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    I think if it really comes out, it would just be second to an autobuyer :) Its really nice!
     
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    OOoooo.. Yh Cool Idea :p
     
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    Pretty good idea! Maybe one that can not only get the job, but fulfill the requirements automatically by buying the items! That would be the r0kz0rn3zs. :p
     
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    This is a very good idea, I think someone on some other site a LONNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG time ago when it first came out (the job thing) made one..
     
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    I might give it a try tonight in perl (haven't coded vb for like a month or 2 now)
    The employment agency restocks jobs every 10 mins on the min right? I could def make a program that refreshes, gets a random job and buys the item and goes back to the job agency to submit the item it bought or whatever you need to do... but im not sure how I would sync it with neopets time so it refreshes every 10 mins .. because you wouldn't want it refreshing pointlessly in between...
    I can extract the time from the page.. so say it were 2:26:07 , i dunno how I could calculate from that the amount of time till the next 10 min period (3 min 53 seconds)
     
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    Then there are those jobs that end up COSTING you money...
     
  10. expon

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    Welll i've worked out how to do the time thing.
    Say it extracts from the page the time is: 2:27:30
    So it's got to work out that it has to wait 2min30 before refreshing.

    So I can use a regex to take the first number of the middle section
    2:27:30

    Then add one to it = 3, and add a zero to that.. = 30
    find the second group of numbers with a regex (27)
    30-27 = 3
    (subtract one from it = 2)

    then use a regex to find the third group of numbers: 30
    do 60-30... = 30

    put them together 2min30
     
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    well I don't know anything about the employment agency tbh..
    are there a lot of jobs in the basicjob section which aren;t profitable?

    i guess I could make it look up the item on the wiz first and check if it's less than what the job pays... but then it would be slower :S

    so.. random job selection or like that ^ ?
     
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    Go with random and put a disclaimer saying it does random ones?
     
  13. expon

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    okay.
    uh well im gonna need to... packet sniff myself going there, refreshing, get the html of the page when there are jobs there.. packet sniff when i click a job.. packet sniff more when i've got the item and want to end the job or whatever...
    if anyone can do that for me, you won't have to pay points for the prog :D
    right now, im gonna start on the first bit.., getting the time to refresh for the next employment agency stock
     
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    Wowwwww, excellent idea.

    Yeah some can end up costing you a lot of money. I always choose one that looks cheap to do but these days you can't, just have to grab one and I heard some people lost 10k to complete the job.
     
  15. alone1

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    yea, i wish they had more every 10min..
     
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    Awesome Idea!! I think someone made 1 a LONG time ago
     
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    you could put a minimum limit on the reward that would help a lil bit idk if that would be a lot of extra work or what.
     
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    I'll make it find the highest reward on the page and go for that..
     
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    it could be a good idea to make it look for the highest, and if it misses, go back and look for higest untaken one?
     
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