Facebook Automated Ad-Submitter Tool

[samyk]

Hi guys!

I've developed a tool for automated Facebook ad submissions. It supports taking multiple ad text+subjects+images and permuting them in all combinations. It also supports variables in your text/image in conjunction with targeting.

For example, you may be selling car insurance to various colleges. You can simply say I want to submit to 10 different colleges as long as they all have 30k+ students, and want to put the college name in the ad text. This would all be done automatically, including the "discovery" of which targeting options have X number of users. Additionally, it would automatically replace "[COLLEGE] alumni receive..." with "UCLA alumni receive..."

Alternatively, you may have 3 different images with 3 different subject possibilities with 3 different ad bodies. This would be 27 different ads...which takes *forever* to make. This, too, would be automatically permuted and each combo would be automatically created.

Interesting to people? I haven't seen any tools that do this already. If this is useful, what other features would be beneficial?

It also supports automatically finding all groups you want to target and how many people are in them, for example, I can list all colleges and how many users are in each college, and only targets ones with 30k+ students.

-samy

 

[flysarescary]

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Or you can just go away and keep the bid prices low for yourself and everyone else.. then again it's all about the image so whatevs

 

[digga121]

review copies?

 

[theNOTO]

I'll try it out.

 

[machinecontrol]

What language is it written in? How fast is it? Has it gotten your account banned for excessive use?
Since you're new here, you should give out a couple of review copies.
Review copy plz?

 

[samyk]

What language is it written in? How fast is it? Has it gotten your account banned for excessive use?
Since you're new here, you should give out a couple of review copies.
Review copy plz?

It's currently written in perl, but from the sounds of it I need to convert it into a Firefox extension. I haven't submitted ridiculous amounts of ads yet to know whether it'll get banned for excessive usage but they haven't banned mine yet.

I know I'm new here but I'm not new to developing useful tools (My old and free stuff is at http://samy.pl)

 

[colorfast]

need more information. also interested

 

[tjdaz]

Review copy plz.

 

[SuperDave2U]

Interested.

 

[machinecontrol]

Please don't convert it into a Firefox extension. A Perl script is fast, server-side, and scriptable. You can cron creating ads while you sleep. I'm currently creating ads with iMacros, but a server-side script would be much better.

 

[nstory]

The tool sounds awesome.
I've written somethings to pull out useful keywords from FB and feed them right back as keywords in ads (for ringtones when that was possible for that little bit), but it sounds like you have something an order of magnitude more advanced than the atrocity of php scripts and greesemonkey hacks I used to do that shit.

If you don't already, you should space out the time between ad submissions. When I've used semi-automated methods, I haven't gotten problems from FB's reviewers. Probably because there was a bit of time between submissions. Making the operation look manual.

Also, are you really the samy worm guy?

That's fucking awesome.

 

[samyk]

The tool sounds awesome.
I've written somethings to pull out useful keywords from FB and feed them right back as keywords in ads (for ringtones when that was possible for that little bit), but it sounds like you have something an order of magnitude more advanced than the atrocity of php scripts and greesemonkey hacks I used to do that shit.

If you don't already, you should space out the time between ad submissions. When I've used semi-automated methods, I haven't gotten problems from FB's reviewers. Probably because there was a bit of time between submissions. Making the operation look manual.

Also, are you really the samy worm guy?

That's fucking awesome.

nstory, awesome -- good idea about spacing out submissions. How long do you think is reasonable? 20 secs + rand(20)?

That's me BTW, I use your FB greasemonkey script, it's great!

 

[nvanprooyen]

review copies?

 

[AdExhibitJason]

I use I macros and another one from a reputable member here. If your was faster you might have a chance at his market.
I will PM you some suggestions I have.

 

[nstory]

nstory, awesome -- good idea about spacing out submissions. How long do you think is reasonable? 20 secs + rand(20)?

That's me BTW, I use your FB greasemonkey script, it's great!

Thanks,
I'm glad you like it!

Those numbers sound about right.

Another thing I just remembered. If you're (ab)using Facebook's volume estimator and typeahead ajax to pull out numbers about keywords/colleges/whatever, don't do it from a logged in account (you don't need to be logged in to use them). It seems to throttle logged in users after a bit, and you can use them when not logged in. Just go to What do you want to advertise? | Facebook when not signed in to see what I mean.

 

[jeff_p]

I'd be interested in this too

 

[hyperion]

Let me know when you wanna release something like this publically. I want it!

 

[webtrend]

Interested. Will pay for it as long as you are committed to actively developing it.

Roll out a beta copy asap.

 

[Avalanche]

likewise - interested.

 

[conv3rsion]

If you are THE samy, dude, major major props on that. I remember reading the technical writeup of how it was done and was really impressed at the time.

That being said, next time don't get caught ;-)


oh and review copy PLEASE