Also .... www.andale.com does this already for a very nominal fee per
auction.
May be reinventing the proverbial "wheel"
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Wolfinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: ColdFusion and eBay
> 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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