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by tomcam 1291 days ago
Sorry you went through this. Demoralizing. But I would love to hear more about how you went about this:

> I ran a selenium job daily which went and reported all of the drop ship sellers for counterfeit goods.

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Oh it was dead easy. I just wrote something in selenium python which ran the search daily and went through each item, checked the seller was China based, checked for a missing keyword in the text body and opened the report item form and filled it in!

Took me about an hour to write and an hour to futz with chrome webdriver.

This was fuelled by rage and a can of red bull. A dangerous combination for revenge.

Hilarious and appropriate tagline. You’re doing the Lord’s work :)

And thanks for the other details. Since you didn’t mention Python at first I was trying to figure out if it was some kind of new built-in script language, or Node, or what.

Nowadays Playwright is probably the best way to do these browser automation scripts. We use it with Typescript.