Prosper Bid Sniper
The Prosper Bid Sniper is an application that is currently in development that will allow lenders to ’snipe’ bids on Prosper using Prosper’s API services. The concept may be useful for lenders who want to avoid having their available cash tied up in loans that will ultimately not get funded.
The concept was first (as well as I can tell, anyway) mentioned at Rateladder, who later unveiled a crude Java-based sniping application to prove the concept would work. The java implementation is less than ideal for a number of reasons. Mainly that the bidding variables were hard coded, and also that you would need a Java server to make it work.
The goal of my Prosper Bid Sniper is to continue expanding the concept and to make an application that is usable and actually works. This application provides a web-based interface where the user can create multiple orders. An automated process should then be set up to look for listings closing in the next few minutes and to bid on those loans that match the criteria specified in one of the orders.
The application is written in PHP and requires a MySQL database - both of which are readily available from almost any web hosting provider.
AT THIS STAGE, THIS APPLICATION IS IN BETA AND SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR PLACING REAL BIDS. There are a couple issues that need to be addressed
Download
prosper-bid-sniper-v0.1.zip (1.1 MB)
prosper-bid-sniper-v0.1.tar.gz (1.0 MB)
SVN Access: The latest development version can be checked out from http://svn.odnal.com/prosper_bid_sniper/trunk
Feedback and Development
If you use (or would like to use) this application, please provide feedback by commenting on this page or sending me an email. If you are a developer-type and would like to contribute to the project, I’d be happy to have you tackle something. There is a ‘todo.txt’ file with some known things that need worked on, or feel free to do something else that you have in mind.
[...] project page is at http://odnal.com/prosper-bid-sniper/ with links to download it on that page. There are still a few things that need to be worked out, [...]
April 5th, 2008 at 1:24 amHi, looking at your code.
THe install instructions says to “hit install.php in a web browser”
There doesn’t seem to be an install.php in the download?
May 31st, 2008 at 11:41 amIt looks like I need to change ‘install.php’ to ’settings.php’. That is the page where you put in your settings at. I think originally I was going to try to do an install process where it prompted for your database credentials as well, but for now you just put those in the config file directly.
June 1st, 2008 at 12:42 amI have been kind of debbuging this program for a week now. It seems to me there are three major issues up to this point:
1) The criteria program has difficulties accepting a zero as a condition for the search. If user changes the value to 0.00 instead of 0 program seems to run right.
June 15th, 2008 at 6:14 pm2) The “first credit line” condition when is filled with values makes the search to fail even though there are bids matching the criteria.
3) Same as item 2) but this time is the “length of employment status” line
Hmm.. more problems.
When trying to open the install.php fifle, I get the error message:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘{’ in /home/public_html/prosperapi/prosper.class.php on line 161
I can’t see an obvious error. Any ideas?
June 15th, 2008 at 8:11 pmErrata: I meant run settings.php.
I also tried index.php, same problem. I tried downloading again, same problem.
June 15th, 2008 at 8:12 pm