Where can I find consistent work that can be automated, like

>>1980046
What do you use to code them ?

You can find that type of work on freelancing websites =)

>>1980054

Python, (I'm a Biochemistry undergrad student though, so I also am learning bioinformatics on the side).

>>1980054

Also, I'm not really sure where to begin without experience...

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>>1980046
Why don't you start selling the script itself?

Also, I feel like we may be kindred spirits since I've been working on a project automating collection of all the court cases in the USA. I have plenty of ideas of automating content collection and then just publishing it with ads, but not really the time to work on it. I write up my plans, but never have the time to actually build shit. If you send me a way to contact you, I may email you some day just to chat or offer a possible way of making profit, or even a contract. Let me know if you may be interested, but I can't promise anything.

[email protected]

Good luck in looking for work

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>>1980062

Each script I sell would have to be custom made and I don't think anyone would really be willing to buy it considering the small userbase of the game. It only generates me $50- $100/month.

I think I already have an idea of how to do what you want. I'll e-mail you.

>>1980082
Ah, well the automating case collection is a propriety project for my employer not something I need help working on, sorry if I may have implied otherwise. I have other ideas for automated content collection. It's just hard to find time to work on side projects, since I work full time and also spend a good amount time investing in cryptos.

>>1980091
>proprietary not propriety

>>1980091
>automated content collection
So a web scraper?

Also share some resources for automation, I'm pretty decent in python, would love to give it a go.

>>1980091

I feel you senpai, I actually just quit my job because they were working me 55 hours a week, which left me with no time to do anything since I spent all my waking hours working or at school/studying...It was a nightmare.

I'll still e-mail you just in case. My goal over the next two years is to have a portfolio of work that does itself, with minimal maintenance. In two years I will start hopefully doing research, so I don't think I will have much time after that to do this.

>>1980046
>I'm by no means a professional programmer or anything, so I doubt I could get hired anywhere.

Do programming work on Upwork or some other freelancer site.

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>>1980046
If you enjoy doing this look into robotic process automation. The hype just started and they're paying pretty well for people with the right skills

>>1980116
>So a web scraper?
Yeah, basically my full time job, I already have it collecting 10 million + cases.

>Also share some resources for automation, I'm pretty decent in python, would love to give it a go.

I actually use PHP for automation. You should check out the JetBrains IDEs, they're really good.

https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/

They have one for Python too.

https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

Composer is a nice package manager, https://getcomposer.org/
I use Guzzle for doing the requests http://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/la
Then just crawl through the Dom using https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/Goutte
Don't forget Regex for obscure stuff.

The hard part really isn't programming as much as just deducing the patterns and variations that target data can have and building a versatile program that can deal with failure. I also built a web scraper for SEC forms on
https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar using java.

There is lots of public domain content that you can legally scrape and display.

>>1980141

How hard is it to get gigs on upwork/other freelancing sites?

>>1980148
Is it competitive to get into? Yeah, it's pretty fun.

>>1980159
It's kinda hard to make decent money since it's an international market. I used
https://www.freelancer.com/
But never found a project worth the pay they offered, of course you can take a look for yourself.