Do you want to know more info about a specific kind listings on Ebay? With the program, you can have a report like the following one in seconds.
Count Auction Title Starting Bid Current Bid History Buy It Now End Time Seller ID Feedback Country Email Link 0 XUP Xilinx Virtex-II Pro Development System US 299.99 299.99 1 0 10 hours 28 mins xyz.... 99.8 United States http://... 1 Xilinx XCS30-3PQ240C US 0.01 33.00 1 0 Oct-20-07 06:55:31 PDT xyz.... 100 United States http://... 2 Xilinx Spartan-3E Starter Kit HW-SPAR3E-SK-US-G nonused US 1.00 56.00 2 0 Oct-20-07 18:00:00 PDT xyz.... 100 United States http://... 3 Xilinx Spartan-3E Starter kit US 59.00 59.00 1 0 Oct-21-07 07:01:03 PDT xyz.... 99.1 United States http://... 4 XILINX In-system programmable CPLD XC95216-15PQ160I 5.99 0 0 0 Oct-21-07 21:26:04 PDT xyz.... 99.7 United States http://... 5 Xilinx Student Edition VHDL 9.99 0 0 0 Oct-22-07 12:34:40 PDT xyz.... 99.9 United States http://... 6 Xilinx Spartan-3A FPGA Starter Kit C 0.00 132.50 4 0 Oct-22-07 14:00:59 PDT xyz.... 100 Canada http://... 7 *XILINX Virtex-II PRO Board* Look Inside For More Info* 29.99 0 0 0 Oct-22-07 15:09:41 PDT xyz.... 97.8 United States http://... 8 Xilinx Parallel Cable IV DLC7 49.99 0 0 0 Oct-22-07 16:15:39 PDT xyz.... 99.7 United States http://... 9 PCB with Xilinx XC95216 CPLD, Power MOSFETs ICs IC 12.50 0 0 0 Oct-22-07 19:22:22 PDT xyz.... 99.8 United States http://... 10 XILINX In-system programmable CPLD XC95216-15PQ160I 5.99 0 0 0 Oct-23-07 18:15:37 PDT xyz.... 99.7 United States http://... 11 AMD XILINX SPARTAN XC2S100E IIE FPGA Development Board 30.00 0 0 0 Oct-24-07 10:44:09 PDT xyz.... 99.3 United States http://... 12 Xilinx XC2018-33PC84C - USER Programmable Gate Array 0.99 0 0 0 Oct-24-07 18:53:38 PDT xyz.... 99.7 United States http://...
You can free download the script here. With this script, if you want to find out info of a certain kind item, all you need to do is open the program and change keywords. For example, if you want to know what is going on about Xilinx, you need to change keywords as below.
# Change the key words my $keyWord1="Xilinx"; my $keyWord2=""; my $keyWord3="";
After you changed key words, you can run the script at DOS prompt. Once it is done, you should find a txt file named after your key words and a lot of html files in the directory where you run the script. The txt file should have the summary info you are looking for. A small problem with program is that if a listing does not use US currency, some numbers, like Starting Bid, in the table are zeros.
If you have any questions, please post them at Misc. of the forum. we will try to get back to you as soon as possible.
If you do not have PERL in your computer, you need to install it, like activeperl from www.activestate.com. And you also need to install WWW::Search::Ebay from www.cpan.org.