[Wolves] ebay screen scraper

[sparkes]

On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 16:30, sparkes wrote:

> 
> http://westmids.homeunix.com/projects/ebayscraper/ebay.php
> http://westmids.homeunix.com/projects/ebayscraper/ebay.phps 

I would reply to Davids post but fetchmail seems to have eaten all my
mail this morning :-(

anyway I can't reproduce the error you found it must have been one of
ebays 'down for routine maintainance' things.  But I have added some
error checking.

using the wrong user name now returns

<rdf:RDF>
  <channel>
    <title>
      Ebay Sellers RDF for jonobacon999 produced an error
    </title>
    <description>
Does this user (jonobacon999) exist? and is the ebay site functional at
the moment? Because this script has paniced and produced this very
unhelpful error, sorry ;-) Better error conditions to come, thank you
for your time.
    </description>
  </channel>
</rdf:RDF>

Not the most helpful message in the world but at least now it dies with
a valid xml response ;-) Pah if only I was lazy and didn't return the
correct header you would have just seen a foobar'd webpage ;-)

sparkes
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