Acquisition target discovery and scoring automation for Flippa
Acquisition target discovery and scoring automation for Flippa is an integration job, not a software purchase. Data Jockey has built one as a cron job on the VPS (06:40 ET) plus a Windows off-market leg (06:50 ET): it runs in production. This page publishes the calls, reads, writes and safety checks that build used, read out of the code.
What it calls
These are the endpoints this build calls directly, with runtime values replaced by a placeholder.
- Flippa page-embedded JSON ingest into `data/listings.json`
- enrichment on age, platform, ad networks, sitemap, schema, llms.txt, IndexNow, forms and listing-page share
What it reads and writes
Every read and every write this build makes is printed below, as the build sends it, with runtime values replaced by a placeholder.
- Motion Invest read through Playwright
Safety checks
An automation that writes into a system of record has to refuse some cases. These are the checks this build makes before it acts.
a keyless multi-engine search fallback across Bing, DuckDuckGo and Mojeek because the datacenter IP is blocked
a kill-criteria screen before scoring
never states a valuation pre-NDA
platforms and marketplaces never for sale are excluded
Schedule and settings
These are the tuned constants from the delivered build. They are included because they are the part nobody can guess in advance, and they are the part a second implementation gets wrong.
- a Tranco rank threshold under 100k in the buy-box fit rules
Where it runs
It runs as a cron job on the VPS (06:40 ET) plus a Windows off-market leg (06:50 ET).
It also touches Motion Invest, Playwright, Tranco, RDAP and Wayback.
What this record is
Data Jockey is a services firm, so this page is an implementation record. There is no product to buy here and no price on this page.
No customer is named on it either. Data Jockey publishes no customer list, and the calls and checks above are the part a reader can check.
Questions we hear
- Is acquisition target discovery and scoring automation for Flippa a product or a project?
- It is a project. The queries on this page are specific to how one company had its Flippa set up: which fields carried the human identifier, which documents already existed, and where a human had to stay in the loop. A product cannot know any of that in advance, which is why the integration is the work.
- Did this run in production?
- Yes. It runs in production today as a cron job on the VPS (06:40 ET) plus a Windows off-market leg (06:50 ET), and this page is read out of the code that runs.
- What happens when the automation is not sure?
- It stops. This build carries 4 distinct kinds of check, and every one of them exists to hand the case to a person. Automating the confident cases and routing the rest is what makes an integration safe to leave running.
- Can Data Jockey build this for us?
- Book a call and we will scope it against the systems you already run. Data Jockey publishes no prices, so there is no figure on this page, and what a build costs depends on what your setup turns out to need.
Where these facts come from
Every call, table, check and setting above comes from the delivery record of this build, and each identifier in it was checked against the file that implements it by tools/capture-proof-of-work.mjs. The capture is committed at data/raw/dj-proof-of-work-capture-2026-09-07.json and records a sha256 of each source file. Generated 2026-09-07. No figure here was rounded, averaged or estimated.
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