Topic: PHP script for flagging craigslist

[Steve]

One of our competitors is being rediculous in spreading false ads about us. I want to make a scriipt that i can input an ad id or url and it will use proxies to flag this ad from various ip addresses. The script, ideally, would have a wait time in between each flag to avoid being obvious.

How hard would this be? Or does anyone know of one that is out there already?

[Mike]

Don't think it'd be that hard.  Get a list of proxies and the URL scheme they use.  The CL URL for spam seems to be: http://CITY.craigslist.org/flag/?flagCode=15&postingID=####

Then just run a loop over the list of proxies using fget to make the request to each proxy then sleep some amount of it.

[Steve]

Don't think it'd be that hard.  Get a list of proxies and the URL scheme they use.  The CL URL for spam seems to be: http://CITY.craigslist.org/flag/?flagCode=15&postingID=####

Then just run a loop over the list of proxies using fget to make the request to each proxy then sleep some amount of it.

Thanks for the start man, i hope to play with this today

[Steve]

I gotta get around to trying this. Theres a lot of them out there, but shockingly nothing useful on any of the torrent websites. As popular as CL is that amazes me.

[Steve]

i have been searching my ass off, but im not sure i am using the right wording. How can i submit the actual url, through the proxy? Heres the list i use normally for proxy ip's...

http://www.samair.ru/proxy/ip-address-01.htm

[Steve]

edit:

removed code, bunch of it was f'd up

[Steve]

How can i break up the input url? Basically the url entered is that of the ad to flag. There are many unknown variable like city, section, ad id, etc. I want to take it in like this.....

http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/cps/1759785487.html

save "http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/cps/" and "1759785487"

then add

"flag/?flagCode=" $flagtypevariable "&postingID=" $theidnumber

i know i have to do this with str_replace, but not sure how since the url will always be different coming in

EDIT

thought this would work, but i get no output so i know im wrong.....

Code: [Select]

//convert ad url to flag url based on input
$host = parse_url($target, PHP_URL_HOST);
$path = parse_url($target, PHP_URL_PATH);
$query = parse_url($target, PHP_URL_QUERY);
$fragment = parse_url($target, PHP_URL_FRAGMENT);

print_r ($host);
print_r ($path);
print_r ($query);
print_r ($fragment);

[micah]

does the url always end with the id number.html?

if so,

Code: [Select]

<?php
$url = "grandrapids.craigslist.org/cps/1759785487.html";
$url_parts_array = explode("/",$url);
$last_part = array_pop($url_parts_array);

echo $last_part; // returns "1759785487.html"
?>


[Steve]

Yes it always ends that way. The problem is that i have to explode it out this way:

http://
grandrapids.craigslist.org/
cps/
1759785487

That way i can save each part of the url to a variable, and modify them to the flagging url

[micah]

in the code snippet I just wrote, before using the array_pop() function, call

print_r($url_parts_array);

and notice that those parts are all nicely stripped out for you


array_pop(), just grabs the last value of the array, which is why I suggested it because I thought that was the only value you needed.

[KnuckleBuckett]

or array_(_._)
                  .
                  .

[Mike]

or array_(_._)
                  .
                  .

w....t....f....

[Steve]

i think its supposed to be an ass taking a shit.

Thnx micah

[KnuckleBuckett]