That is useful information.
I had explicitly givien the shortest URL that I found to work. Others
pointed out that the auction NUMBER is the important piece of informtion,
and that the rest to make a URL can be recreated.
I suppose that somebody with some time on their hands could/should go
through and document more of the fields in the eBay URL structure.
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019, Hagstrom, Paul wrote:
One further note on shortening eBay links. A few months ago, eBay made it
harder to use links to ended auctions, because it will (sometimes? often?)
automatically redirect you to some active auctions that it deems to be similar.
If you add
?nordt=true&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc
to the end, it will stay on the auction you asked for, even if it has ended.
That is:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/283576035281?nordt=true&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc
should continue to point to this auction (for 90 days or so at least) even
after the listing is closed.
I am not 100% sure that all of the parameters there are required, I only know
that it works with rt, nordt, and orig_cvip there. I think I tried removing
one or more and it stopped working, but I was not systematic, since, well, I
didn't really care. This is what I use in the show notes of the Retrocomputing
Roundtable episodes, since odds are good that auctions we talk about there will
have ended by the time people try the links. In the context of cctalk, this
might be useful for pointing to auctions that are interesting to look at,
rather than to auctions that people might want to participate in (since in that
latter case, ended auctions stop being interesting).
-Paul
On Aug 21, 2019, at 11:45 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <[email protected]>
wrote:
A small off-topic trivial tip:
That URL can be reduced to:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/253997593352
From 18 lines to 1, losing almost a thousand extraneous chracters.
(The stuff between itm/ and /auction number is not needed for the URL, nor is
the '?' and anything following.)
While the description before the auction number may be useful, the appended
stuff on the end isn't.
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019, Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk wrote:
Anyone know anything about this??
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-1980-IBM-PT-2-Computer-Hall-Effect-Magnet-Keyboard-w-Program-Test-Manuals/253997593352?hash=item3b236fb308&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&enc=AQAEAAADIKvsXIZtBqdkfsZsMtzFbFsbX3WcW5fmB%2Fx7ZbaZTyexIhK7W9VLgW%2BiANqra5tcLfLUvucq%2FWwy3JSlehkVi0H0TnsZ9x3lnT4M%2FNK0I23zl7BNBUVztS8698RExuOgZcHXO6v7FRUK%2BTMxC2BELPLkgdRvpFWMB9BbXQW1zu7SXs5SoLJrm3aR8m2kIhrt1aHBf3njB7KD9d70jXprDh7LYyoD6BlZOSFKMSelULNCkR06EvKg4bm5Hlj2kT9gzHObAbHnS4Dy725pF6f0MSjGs0nuvyw3P701B8pbREOy%2BFwa7KynI7p%2F%2FDZSd3NLb8aiylmIQvuIxdA2jf9NKjtjNK4OtBGLPK1kCinJtpG3edC%2Bg3zcgF%2BfyYqsWzgdaR5BLc7eWvxDvDJVYrc9GagH52%2BXriCUj815vLusAYJ4MLBZEf4SumlXsAzKamOO1YHDdAY5XcZWlbJj4%2BbUDYGiVYVey5jbU4p6AR07GBD1NZ9VxtZLXu3%2BrEvbDjS062zfupJn1OsyqxjkXo4S94QVavnXzvg%2BlbUU6igkijeh8tFnsqvD9YBuGYX5BkjQbg7rxOMS9orHpRd28wEsc%2BFknJ71Lz6aCnlB4RpAZbiHprxzhMYckTqYLMAMhmYF92p5vdMYFd9gFN7jkUHKQPMgwjpZpGHrg3UeEEMrPI%2FlDEtwSC0tQBwpD4phxoid3H8rPCpQ3eavJ7UwJUNfXV5k5unTOHwY%2BxT0TTtCCfqMJXqRNMNJkokBK375vCSohk1GexkbC7vvHsB2jB6fh6sjqYTUk4JuzulLDCGrCvZaKBAW9PF8L4%2F%2BDs1N20TwMxOhigqK0TPCWMRT0CPP5lk%2BiqRoJcY0jxsLoQ%2ByEoxMik5Mf5jqeAbaFw6Sg9lXG45gGwa7JiO3kQ7W6reG3LKEMsC2kmLq8q%2BtL%2FvK9aA0gP9in9SIXNZr%2Bh40fnoMD4rS%2Bpki8If24eqaAsA75pDMYNjIgFr85VGRhiHR3g7ymKQ3%2BHET6pyCnW0pt677L6Ggah3K%2BrNu1BSYjdMm3dfFPTWvNtdFRfaBNIweNSEM&checksum=25399759335250961bc599bf4c1a8a1422d41778b250
