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Automated Searching

The program will search Ebay for items of interest and send you the results as an e-mail, HTML or CSV file, or all 3 if required.

Ebay have a saved search facility which is OK but sends one email for every item and only runs once a day.

The code is a re-work of Hack 17 in the O'reilly book Ebay Hacks 1st Edition, which failed to work on Windows
after the Perl Module WWW::Search::Ebay had been updated. Still worked under Linux though.

Ebay hacks 2nd Edition now incudes this code as Hack 21

There is an executable version for people that don't have Perl installed. All thats required is a config file and details of your email server setting

Updates

July 2006 - results to CSV file as well as HTML and email

July 2005 versions including Worldwide and extra search options added

Re-work of Ebay Hack 17 from www.ebayhacks.com book 1st Edition download code here

Requires Perl at least version 5.6 - works on Windows and Linux should be OK on Mac OS X but you'll need to test it yourself. If anyone can test it and confirm it works please contact me.


Installing Perl on Windows is easy. Download from www.activestate.com get the MSI package.
When the installtion is finiished 2 extra modules are required. MIME::Lite and HTML::TableExtract

double click on the mod_inst.cmd file (in zip file with code) to install the require modules

Windows Executable which doesn't require Perl - see the readme.html in the zip file

Download here 1.2MB