Jeff:
This actually shouldn't be too difficult as long as you are good friends
with regular expressions. Michael Dinowitz actually used eBay as an example
for creating a Intelligent Agent at the 2000 Dev Conference last month.
The real problem with this is that one ebay changes their site, you have to
write all new regular expressions to be able parse the data.
I think you can get that code from either Allaire's Conference web site or
probably just by e-mail Michael.
-Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffry Houser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 10:34 AM
Subject: ColdFusion and eBay
>
> An ecommerce site that I work on sometimes does eBay auctions. They
> want the winning bidder to be able to go to their site, plug in their name
> and auction number, have a script go out to ebay and grab the
> auction info and create an order for the person.
>
> I did some plugging around eBay in hopes that they actually encourage
> this sort of thing and I could grab the data via wddx. I found what I
> was expecting to find, which was nothing.
>
> I told the client that the first thing we would have to do was
> de-construct the eBay URLs so that we would be able to create a URL
> directly to the auction page. This could take hours, or weeks, or be
> completely hopeless. I haven't looked at eBay from a 'how do they do
> it' standpoint. Once we have the URL I can grab the page, via CFHTTP,
> and parse it out to get the necesarry information.
>
> Has anyone had any experience with this or know of any sites that
> perform similiar actions? In the past hasn't eBay tried to block 3rd
> party 'auction search' programs that automatically search their site
> for auctions? Wouldn't an attempt at deconstructing their URL's border
> on hacking?
>
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