[Wolves] Ebay RSS

[Aquarius]

Jono Bacon spoo'd forth:
> Hi all,
> 
> I know some of you are ebayers on here and I thought
> you could answer this.
> 
> Is there an Ebay RSS implementation to put a little
> box on your website showing items that you are
> selling. I thought this would be great for personal
> homepages. I am building up my site at jono.dyndns.org
> and I want to add something like this.
> 
> If not, how would you get the info. I assume there is
> a way of reading in a particular webpage (the myEbay
> selling portion) into a string and then pulling the
> bits out. This is something I have never done before
> but would be interested in investigating.

According to http://www.waxy.org/archive/2003/03/17/ebay_to_.shtml, that guy 
has already written a thing which screen-scrapes eBay search pages and 
converts to RSS. The principle will be the same, I suspect. Note also that 
that guy mentions some kind of fee-based "eBay API", which means that eBay 
might not actually like what you're doing...

Aq.

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