Title not found

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confirmed.

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It's now finally broken on ebay.ca (and all the other ebay.xxx.xx's I tried) :(

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The workaround dont work anymore...

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Oh well, it fixed things for a couple of days! I'm a bit too busy to dig into this and make a fix right now. It might take a week or two, but I'll get it working again.

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Thanks for the nice tool and your voluntary work !

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Seems that this does not work anymore.

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Quick'n'Dirty fix here, for history.c. Seems to work for regular-ass auctions, but I have no idea if it works for Dutch, or whatever-else. Not sure if posting the diff here will mess up its formatting, but you can figure it out.

Enjoy. And dont any of you use this to snipe my targets! (oh yeah, you can change .ca back to .com)

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> * Auction item
> */
> while ((line = getNonTag(mp))) {
> if (!strcmp(line, "Item title:")) {
> line = getNonTag(mp);
> break;
> }
> }
> if (!line) {
> log(("parseBidHistory(): No title, place 2\n"));
> return auctionError(aip, ae_notitle, NULL);
> }
> free(aip->title);
> aip->title = myStrdup(line);
> while ((line = getNonTag(mp))) {
> char *tmp;
>
> if (line[strlen(line) - 1] == ':')
> break;
> tmp = aip->title;
> aip->title = myStrdup2(tmp, line);
> free(tmp);
> }
> printLog(stdout, "Auction %s: %s\n", aip->auction, aip->title);
>
> /*
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< /*getTableCell(mp); /* end of "Time left:" cell */
< /*getTableCell(mp); /* spacer */
---
> getTableCell(mp); /* end of "Time left:" cell */
> getTableCell(mp); /* spacer */
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< aip->remainRaw = getNonTagFromString(getNonTag(mp));
< /*aip->remainRaw = getNonTagFromString(getTableCell(mp));*/
---
> aip->remainRaw = getNonTagFromString(getTableCell(mp));
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> if (!(line = getNonTag(mp)))
> return auctionError(aip, ae_nohighbid, NULL);
> if (!strcmp("Reserve not met", line))
> aip->reserve = 1;
> else {
> aip->reserve = 0;
> /* start of header? Probably a purchase */
> if ((foundHeader = !strncmp("Bidder", line, 6)) ||
> (foundHeader = !strncmp("User ID", line, 7))) {
> log(("ParseBidHistory(): found table with header \"%s\"\n", line));
> /* get other headers to check them */
> row = getTableRow(mp);
> extraColumns += checkHeaderColumns(row);
> freeTableRow(row);
> }
> }
>
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< /*
< * Auction item
< */
< /*while ((line = getNonTag(mp))) {
< if (!strcmp(line, "Item title:")) {*/
< while ((line = getTag(mp))) {
< if (!strncmp(line, "div class=\"BHitemTitle",22)) {
< line = getNonTag(mp);
< break;
< }
< }
< if (!line) {
< log(("parseBidHistory(): No title, place 2\n"));
< return auctionError(aip, ae_notitle, NULL);
< }
< free(aip->title);
< aip->title = myStrdup(line);
< while ((line = getNonTag(mp))) {
< char *tmp;
<
< if (line[strlen(line) - 1] == ':')
< break;
< tmp = aip->title;
< aip->title = myStrdup2(tmp, line);
< free(tmp);
< }
< printLog(stdout, "Auction %s: %s\n", aip->auction, aip->title);
<
< if (!(line = getNonTag(mp)))
< return auctionError(aip, ae_nohighbid, NULL);
< if (!strcmp("Reserve not met", line))
< aip->reserve = 1;
< else {
< aip->reserve = 0;
< /* start of header? Probably a purchase */
< if ((foundHeader = !strncmp("Bidder", line, 6)) ||
< (foundHeader = !strncmp("User ID", line, 7))) {
< log(("ParseBidHistory(): found table with header \"%s\"\n", line));
< /* get other headers to check them */
< row = getTableRow(mp);
< extraColumns += checkHeaderColumns(row);
< freeTableRow(row);
< }
< }
<

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I changed auction.c but i can't compile ... :-(

./configure:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

config.log:

#define VERSION "2.16.1"
configure: exit 77

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I altered auction.c and tried with gcc-3.3 and gcc-4.2

./configure:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

config.log:

#define VERSION "2.16.1"
configure: exit 77

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Hi nickdigger,

against which version of history.c works this patch, don't work on CVS 1.4?!

Could you uplaod your working history.c :-)?

BTW ebay.in would still work, but the page is in UTF-8 and esniper can't determeine the bid...

Regards,

Knut

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kmalcher... probably a write permission problem in the directory where you are building.

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knutkohl... my guess it is a patch on version 1.2, which is the version released with 2.16.0 and 2.16.1.

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2.16.1

how do i upload a file?

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Use the "upload and attach file" link at the bottom of this page.

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I dont have an Upload/Attach link, just a listing of attached files (none currently). Tried Netscape, Firefox & IE. Maybe it's a permissions issue?

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Strange, should be right at the bottom of the page. Maybe it's because I opened the bug? Email the file to me, I'll post it to this bug report.

nickdigger's modification of history.c

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Nickdigger's history.c added. I haven't tried it yet.
File Added: history.c

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Works with plain auctions on ebay.de, too.

BTW: ebay has a SOAP based web service. Why don't we use that one?

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Hrmm. When I recompile with the modified history.c, I still get "Title not found" errors. This is with version 2.16.1.

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Me too, I still have "Title not found" errors.

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knob-creek...

I'd love to uses eBay's API, but in eBay's infinite wisdom they not only don't support automated bidding through their API, but they also restrict you from using screen scraping until the sun goes supernova (or you die, whichever comes last).

Up until recently they didn't even support bidding in the API. Now they do, but with lots of restrictions. Click on the policies to find out that sniping is prohibited:

http://developer.ebay.com/devzone/xml/docs/reference/ebay/PlaceOffer.html

And here's their agreement. Take note of 2.2(b), which basically says once you enter into this agreement you can never screen scrape again, even if you leave the agreement. Doubt it would hold up in court, but I'm not about to find out.

http://developer.ebay.com/join/licenses/individual/

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Does it work for anybody? I d/l'd the file from here to verify it's the same one i sent Scott; recompiled, and it works for me still. Compiling from a fresh tarball?

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Yes I compiled a fresh unmodified tarball

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I mean except the exchanged history.c the tarball is unmodified. And it still doesn't work.