Employment agency job grabber?

yeah, nice idea..
I might try it later

 

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)

 

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

 

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 ^ ?

 

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
right now, im gonna start on the first bit.., getting the time to refresh for the next employment agency stock

 

I'll make it find the highest reward on the page and go for that..