wtf is gixenpy?

gixenpy is a Python tool for people who use Gixen, a service that places automatic last second bids on eBay auctions, a practice often called sniping. Gixen used to offer a public API that other programs could talk to directly, but that API is now limited to regular users, so gixenpy gets around this by filling out and submitting Gixen's own website forms the same way a browser would, just without an actual browser window. It is not made by Gixen and is not affiliated with them, though the author checked Gixen's terms of use and found nothing that forbids this kind of automated access. With gixenpy you can schedule a snipe on an eBay item, list your current snipes, edit one, delete one, or clear out old finished ones, and it distinguishes between snipes that are still active, ones you won, and ones you lost rather than just calling everything finished. Each snipe can have a maximum bid, an offset in seconds before the auction ends, and a bid group, and when editing an existing snipe you only need to specify the parts you want to change. By default, adding a snipe runs in a dry run mode that shows what would be sent without actually sending it, which is a safe way to test things first. The project can be used either as a Python library inside your own scripts, with credentials being your Gixen account's, not eBay's, or as a standalone command line tool once you set your Gixen username and password as environment variables. It reads Gixen's web pages to find its forms rather than assuming fixed field names, so it keeps working even if Gixen changes small details of its site. It is careful about security too: requests are limited and reused rather than repeatedly logging in, and any form address it finds on the page is checked against Gixen's own domain before anything is sent to it. It is released under the MIT license and installable with pip.