Don't Mind Me, Just Casually Trying Out RemindMeBot

For starters, I'm a just-graduated high school student that sometimes dabbles in scripting and programming. I'm interested in this task not because I'm 100% sure I can do it but because I think it will be a very good learning experience for me. If you want somebody else who actually can do this I completely understand, and I'm not going to make you pay first without results.

What payment method(s) do you accept?

I prefer PayPal, though if that's an issue I can definitely take Bitcoin and perhaps other payment methods, just ask. I'd rather not do Amazon or other gift cards simply because I have so many.

How you see the script/bot working?

I'm thinking login will be best automated via Selenium WebDriver, which does a good job at imitating using a real web browser as much as possible. I'm hoping I can then pop the webpage source into PHP and parse it out without too much trouble. Assuming it's okay to run this on a server. If you need something to run on your computer instead of a server I'm not entirely sure how to do that, but I'm definitely willing to try. iMacros is a possibility for something on the desktop side, but I'll have to look into the restrictions on the free version.

Do you have any samples of your previous work?

Most of my stuff is private shenanigans I write and delete later, and most of it isn't good for show. For a math paper I had to write my junior year I wrote a Java program that exported data into a CSV file, so I imagine exporting into an Excel spreadsheet won't be that much more difficult.

As far as website parsing goes, this is probably the best example I have. There's a website called Wavo that's designed as a place for people to have music charts, and they often host remix contests with these charts. These remix contests sometimes are from prestigious artists like Dillon Francis or Kaskade, and all contests come with stems, which are usually each individual track of the song to make it easier to work with, but can also include MIDI note files or even virtual instrument presets. The problem is these stems are only available as long as the contest is open before Wavo makes the link disappear. I found that the link to the stems is still in the website code, so I made a script that parses the entirety of the website and lists almost all of the remix contests (and stems download links) on the website. If you're interested, here's the non-cached, live-running version of the script. I think I wrote this in a week, though I kept tweaking it a bunch so it's hard to tell, and I can't at all guarantee a similar turnaround time for any other site. But I do promise to be as transparent as I can and keep you updated.

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