Hi, I am a UK based web developer with over 15 years experience and I'd love the chance to set up your data capturing app to be automatic for you. As you can see from my freeback on here, I have worked on web scraping as well as Excell file generation in the past so understand all aspects of what would be required.
There are a few different ways I could set this up, being able to take a look at your app as it currently is would help me better advise on which way is the best. Here are a few examples of the different ways I could achieve this.
If the functionality for the current system is hosted within your application, I could edit the code to add in time setting functionality to start and stop your scraper automatically within the time ranges. I could also integrate cron tasks to automatically run the scraper within those set times if you would like it to keep running offline.
Alternatively, instead of cron tasks, I could instead create a small desktop app where you can set the times and start and stop the entire app from your desktop.
I would love to discuss this project further with you and if you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to let me know.
I am a full stack web developer specialising in PHP, HTML5, CSS/LESS/SASS, jQuery/Javascript, Node.js, Python as well as many other languages and frameworks.
Thank you for your time, I look forward to hearing back from you.
Regards,
Chris