I would like to:
1. From the Facebook "Buy an advertisement" site, capture into excel the different prices for advertising on Facebook based on
a. advertising categories selected
b. 100 key word searches
2. Have access to the script/method to perform the automated capture on my own.
Having worked with other programmers who tried alternative methods unsuccessfully, I recommend using Sikuli or Selenium web automation.
The site to capture the info can be found by:
Search “Make Facebook Ad”, click create ad, under “Choose a Facebook destination” type and select “Nike”, Under “What would you like to do?” select “Promote Page Posts”.
This is a screen shot of advertising categories (see below).
When each category (Console Gaming/Cooking/Dancing) is clicked individually, four things change:
1. Price per click (CPC), in this example it is $1.01
2. Suggested bid for CPC, in this example $0.48-$2.84
3. Price per thousand impressions (CPM), in this example $0.77
4. Suggested bid for CPM, in this example $0.10-$16.00
I would like to find out these 4 prices from the 127 categories clicked individually. The data should be scraped automatically from a single or short point in time. It should not be done manually because prices change over the day.
And the data should be saved in a format found here:
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The time spent is in writing the script or finding a program to automate the process. I would also like to have access to the method so that I can run the automated process on my own at different times of the day.
Feel free to let me know if you have any questions, we would require it on Monday 24 June 5pm EST. Thank you for your time.
Easy. I went through the flow and can confirm I will have this process automated in no time. I can provide you with a cross-platform Python script that you can run to get the results. Please see my PM for a more detailed bid.