I have seven active ads on Leboncoin (France's Craigslist): IT support, web dev, WordPress hosting, retrogaming, e-waste pickup. All relevant for my area, all invisible after day three. On Leboncoin, without a paid sub, the only way to climb back to the top is to delete and republish each ad. By hand. One by one. Every week. With photo re-upload.
After three Sunday mornings of doing this between two coffees, I figured out I'd rather code an extension I might never ship than do the chore one more time.
The repo: ohugonnot/leboncoin-bumper — Manifest V3, zero deps, zero servers, MIT.
Why a Chrome extension and not a Node script
First option I tried: a Node script with Puppeteer that logs in with my account. I gave up after two evenings. Three concrete reasons:
