[PyCS-devel] Just a little - not related to PyCS - python hack

[Georg B. <gb...@mu...>]

Hi!

Just thought to share this with you, it's not directly PyCS related, but 
at least RSS related (and written in python) :-)

At http://kenny.gws-online.de/~gb/searchebay.py you can download a short 
python script that does a search at ebay for given search words and 
creates an RSS feed out of the results.

Usage:

python searchebay.py +contax +zeiss -ikon -o=contax

searches for combinations of contax and zeiss, weeds out ikon and stores 
it in $HOME/public_html/contax.xml

I run that one regularily on a server of mine and create watchlists for 
stuff I am looking for (contax lenses, mamiya press rollfilm backs and 
rollei 6008 stuff :-) ). Quite handy. And you can subscribe to that RSS 
feed with MacReporter and see it "life" on your desktop when something 
changes. See it as a late christmas present, or a temporary hack until 
eBay implements web services :-)

The "official" announcement (in german) is at

http://hugo.muensterland.org/categories/programmierung/2002/12/27.html#a175

bye, Georg