ebay searching

[Joe Van Dyk]

Are there any Ruby libraries out there that will search ebay?

Thanks,
Joe

 

[Hal Fulton]

Are there any Ruby libraries out there that will search ebay?

Not that I've heard of... but it does sound like a cool idea.

Why don't you write one?


Hal

 

[Charles Comstock]

Are there any Ruby libraries out there that will search ebay?

Thanks,
Joe

I had something that could parse out the price history given an id
number. But I didn't have anything to actually search overall.

Charles Comstock

 

[Joe Van Dyk]

Not that I've heard of... but it does sound like a cool idea.

Why don't you write one?

Ebay does offer an API for seaching and buying and whatnot, but it
costs money to do anything with it. :-(

Is screen scraping illegal nowadays?

 

[Jeffrey Moss]

Ebay has web services that I've written libraries for...

I could share my code, never bothered to package it and all that.

You get something like 50 free searches a day with the "personal" developers
license, for testing I guess...

-Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Van Dyk" <[email protected]>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:46 PM
Subject: ebay searching