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Crawling website for new listings script
The reason i ask this is that i subscribe to new listings but when i get them on email the really interesting items are already sold.
It would be cool if i had a software/script that would crawl the website every 10 min or so and send me the information in an email.
If not what do you suggest i should have somebody have it developed in?
Thank you all.
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you need to adjust the code cause each web site (usually) is coded differently.
ebay has a notification mechanism but only for items you are involve with, for instance, items you placed a bid and u wish to know when you were outbid or items which you added to wish list, etc.
as far as i know, there's no way to get notifications on items in general, for instance get a notification every time item is put for sell in some category.
if you wish to build some kind of ebay notifier (or any other website) that would require a research of how the web site pages which display the items are being rendered/constructed.
for an intermediate web programmer it won't be a difficult task (depends of the website obviously).
cheers