WWW::Search::Ebay::ByEndDate (3)

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NAME

WWW::Search::Ebay::ByEndDate - backend for searching www.ebay.com, with results sorted with "items ending first"

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::Search;
  my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Ebay::ByEndDate');
  my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("C-10 carded Yakface");
  $oSearch->native_query($sQuery);
  while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result())
    { print $oResult->url, "\n"; }

DESCRIPTION

This class is a Ebay specialization of WWW::Search. It handles making and interpreting Ebay searches www.ebay.com.

This class exports no public interface; all interaction should be done through WWW::Search objects.

NOTES

The calling program must ensure that the Date::Manip module is able to determine the local timezone. When Date::Manip changed from version 5 to version 6, the timezone handling was completely overhauled. See the documentation of Date::Manip but good luck because it is confusing and does not contain useful examples.

The search is done against

running auctions only.

The query is applied to

only.

The results are ordered auctions ending soon first (order of increasing auction ending date).

In the resulting WWW::Search::Result objects, the description field consists of a human-readable combination (joined with semicolon-space) of the Item Number; number of bids; and high bid amount (or starting bid amount).

In the WWW::Search::Result objects, the change_date field contains the auction ending date & time in

format; i.e. YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.

SEE ALSO

To make new back-ends, see WWW::Search.

CAVEATS

BUGS

Please tell the author if you find any!

AUTHOR

Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn, "mthurn at cpan.org", <tinyurl.com/nn67z>.

LEGALESE

Copyright (C) 1998-2015 Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn