Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey script for simple ad re-posting on Kijiji.ca

kijiji_repost_ad_simple.user.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Kijiji Repost Ad Simple
// @namespace    KijijiScripts
// @version      0.3.1
// @description  Allows for easy and free ad reposting on Kijiji when managing your ads. A new link named "Repost Ad" will appear in the ad manage widget as well as on the My Kijiji page for each ad.
// @match        http://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details.html?*
// @match        https://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details.html?*
// @match        https://www.kijiji.ca/m-my-ads.html*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    // Add link to the page if the ad manage widget exists
    // (ie. they are viewing their own ad under their control)
    if (document.querySelector('#ManageAdWidget') && Kj.extVars.adId) {
        var li = document.createElement('li');
        li.className = "divider";
        li.innerHTML = "|";

        var a = document.createElement('a');
        a.href = "p-edit-ad.html?submitType=repostAd&adId=" + Kj.extVars.adId;
        a.innerHTML = "Repost Ad";

        document.querySelector('#ManageAdWidget ul.vertical-ul').appendChild(li);
        document.querySelector('#ManageAdWidget ul.vertical-ul').appendChild(document.createElement('li').appendChild(a));
    }
    // Add link to "My Kijiji" ad management page for each ad listed
    else if (document.querySelector('#PageMyKijiji > div.ng-scope')) {
        // Must wait for page to load first otherwise querySelector won't find any of the ads
        // For some reason adding an event listener for the window "load" event doesn't work, so we have to use a hackish timeout instead
        setTimeout(function() {
            var adIds = document.querySelectorAll('div.item-enabled.ResultAdRow.table-row.ng-scope');
            for (var i = 0; i < adIds.length; i++) {
                var a = document.createElement('a');
                a.href = "p-edit-ad.html?submitType=repostAd&adId=" + adIds[i].getAttribute('data-ad-id');
                a.setAttribute('data-ng-click', "repostItem(item)");
                a.innerHTML = "Repost";
                adIds[i].querySelector('div.cta-other').appendChild(a);
            }
        }, 1000);
    }
})();

This works great, thanks for making this!

Hi,
Kijiji updated their site and this repost gist doesn't work anymore. Too bad , it was very helpfull. Will there be an update?

thanks

Any chance for an update ? :)

I spent a short amount of time attempting to fix this, but the solution seems to be much more complex than before. It isn't as simple as crafting a regular html link anymore.
Based on some of the html tag attribute names, the Kijiji site appears to use AngularJS (this isn't a new change), which I am not that familiar with. Something on the back-end must tell the AngularJS front-end when to show a real "repost ad" link, otherwise it is normally hidden. I don't know if it would be possible to fake this behaviour, or if it's something that gets checked and verified by the back-end before the site would allow a free ad repost.

thanks for you answer, if this is too complicated, maybe try to include the repost of the picture in the other script for easy ad re-posting ?
thanks

any chance for update? Here is a chrome extention that seems to be doing the same thing as this script, but with a little more stolen code from others. He charges 30$ for this, what a rip

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kijiji-repost-now-%20-tweak/dbgajgfeeckpidddhbdocoeifppmfldi?hl=en

@cerberii

If you are comfortable with running a Python script (Python is available on both Linux and windows), then I would suggest using the Kijiji-Repost-Headless project.

This is what I use now to repost my Kijiji ads, and it is being actively developed. Unfortunately it is not quite as simple to use as clicking a button in your browser, but it does work. Perhaps someday it could be developed into a real browser extension to make it easier to use.