Scraper API for Auction Site

I am looking for someone to build a Java API to enable interaction with a particular website. I will reveal the details of the site and API spec to those who contact me but for the sake of getting a better idea about the project, one could think of the site as a kind of auction site. The API would need to: 1. “Login” to the site to establish an authenticated session. Subsequent API calls should use those session credentials rather than re-login on each call. 2. Enumerate the list of outstanding auctions. The enumeration would contain: a. human readable name of the auction b. site ID for the auction c. verbose description for the auction d. expiry for the auction 3. Given a site auction ID enumerate the outstanding bids made by participants 4. Given a site auction ID make a bid on the auction 5. Given a site auction ID enumerate the bid(s) made by the user (API) on that auction. The enumeration would include a. price b. a bid ID c. status 6. Given a bid ID query the status which could be: a. won b. lost c. pending. 7. The API must be thread-safe i.e. reentrant allowing multiple threads to make parallel request on both the same and different login ID’s and locking should be minimal to allow a high degree of parallelism 8. Should optionally be able to direct requests through a standard http(s) proxy server which should be configurable on a per-session (i..e per login) basis. 9. Note that this is a 2.0 web site so the project will be more involved that just parsing HTML for links and calling those. 10. I assume there are Java automation frameworks to assist this with (example [login to view URL]) 11. I have a strong preference towards Java for this but could be convinced to accept a python implementation provided that the implementation included a SOAP interface and a Java stubs to call the API via SOAP. The above is “rough” and the actual project from a programming perspective should be similar in scope to the above but some pretty big differences. I’m looking for someone who has: a. experience building applications that scrape/control website programatically b. many years experience developing java applications - I’ve been developing in Java for years and will know right a way if this is one of your first Java programs (even if it works perfectly) and most likely give you a bad review. b. is able to complete the project for $200 (I will consider paying a bonus for exceptional work) If interested, please send me a message outlining relevant project experience and I’ll send specifics about the site and API.