Grabing photos and item descriptions in ebay

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Kasper
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Grabing photos and item descriptions in ebay

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Hi,

I am trying to find a particular item "silk tie" in ebay.com and wish to generate a list of which have the item numbers, seller ID and also grap the item photos to C:\finditem\tie\. In that way, I can save time from clicking each searched pages one by one. Could you help me in preparing that script?

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Re: Grabing photos and item descriptions in ebay

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ok. so you need a script that will search for "something" and for each items displayed, you need to download all the photos for that item, and save the item number and seller ID. In other words, build a text file with the item number, seller ID amd picture(s) name one line per item, all fileds tab delimited?
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Re: Grabing photos and item descriptions in ebay

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Yes, that's correct. Thanks for your help.
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Re: Grabing photos and item descriptions in ebay

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By the way, can I have the script for that?

Thanks
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Re: Grabing photos and item descriptions in ebay

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I'm working on it.
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Re: Grabing photos and item descriptions in ebay

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Here is the script. Just change the first line to whatever keywords you want to search for. The tab delimited file will be saved as ebay.txt in the same folder as this script, and the pictures will be saved in the images folder also in the same folder as this script. The first field is the seller ID, then the item number, then the image file name...

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Keywords = 'silk tie';

PerlRegEx = Yes;
Output.Clear;

Link = New(URL);
temp = New(URL);
rx = New(RegEx);
sx = New(RegEx);
F = New(File);
D = New(File);

D.Open(ScriptPath+'ebay.txt');
D.Truncate;

Keywords.Replace('\s', '+');

NextPage = 'http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw='+Keywords+'&_ipg=200&_sacat=See-All-Categories';

while NextPage do begin

	Link.Get(NextPage);
	NextPage = Decode(WildGet(Link.Data, '<a href="([^"]+_pgn=\d+)"[^>]*><i>Next</i>'));
	if NextPage then NextPage = Link.FixUp(NextPage);

	rx.Data = Link.Data;
	rx.Mask = '<a title="[^"]*" href="([^"]+)" class="[^"]*" r="[^"]*" _sp="[^"]*">';
	rx.Reset;

	while rx.Match do begin
		lnk = Link.FixUp(Decode(rx.Value[1]));
	  ItemNumb = WildGet(lnk, '/itm/[^/]+/([^\?]+)');
		temp.Get(lnk);
		SellerID = WildGet(temp.Data, '<a\s+title="Member\s+id\s+([^"]+)"');
		sx.Data = temp.Data;
		sx.Mask = 'image"\s+content="([^"]+\.jpg)"';
		sx.Reset;
		if sx.Match then begin
			lnk = Decode(sx.Value[1]);
			DecodeURL(lnk, [imgID], [FileName]);
			imgID.Replace('\*', '');
			imgID.Replace('\|', '');
			imgID.Replace('\\', '');
			imgID.Replace('\/', '');
			imgID.Replace('\:', '');
			imgID.Replace('\"', '');
			imgID.Replace('\<', '');
			imgID.Replace('\>', '');
			imgID.Replace('\?', '');
			imgID.Replace('\$', '');
			temp.Get(lnk);
			F.Open(ScriptPath+'images\'+imgID);
			F.Write(temp.Data);
			F.Close;
		end else
		  imgID = '';
    DataLine = SellerID +tab+ ItemNumb +tab+ imgID;
    Output(DataLine);
    D.Write(DataLine+crlf);
	end;

end;

D.Close;
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Re: Grabing photos and item descriptions in ebay

Post by Kasper »

Thanks very much for your help. I have tested it and it is really amazing.
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