I think you be able to get it without toooo tooo much hassle.
Goto.com does it - esnipe.com does it - ebay just bought www.half.com - a CF
site, not that that has "anything" to do with what you - asked - i just like
to insert worthless trivia in posts when ever possible. :-)
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffry Houser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 7:34 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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