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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/19/73 11:53
rasiel@dirtyoldbooks.com wrote:
> I'm hoping someone can help me out. I'm a researcher in need of
> developing an automated database and would like to see if someone here
> is willing to consider putting together for me a simple website. I'm
> not expecting a freebie of course, I'll pay if you're interested.
>
> This is the outline of the project:
>
> This would be a website that pulls records from closed eBay auctions
> and stores them in predefined categories. The data would be formatted
> by keyword. For example, if we were to pull all auctions over the
> course of a year in ebay's categories for shoes I could ask that the
> programming place them based on shoe colors black, blue and brown and
> ignore all other auctions that do not have those keywords in the
> auction title. I would then have on my site a database of shoe auctions
> that grows each day and a link for each of the three colors of shoes.
>
> A picture is worth a thousand words - here's a flowchart of the layout
> and functionality I have in mind:
>
> http://www.dirtyoldbooks.com/temp/sample1.jpg and, assume you click the
> blue shoes link,
> http://www.dirtyoldbooks.com/temp/sample2.jpg clicking on any of those
> links would then pull up the old auction, stored on my site (not linked
> to ebay of course).
>
> I could foresee fancying it up a bit by adding a search function, a
> counter for total records stored and a way to delete records caught by
> the spider that are irrelevant but that's pretty much the extent of
> what I'm looking for.
>
> I can be reached at rasiel at dirty old books dot com but I'll follow
> the thread in case I'm waaaay out of line asking for this sort of thing
> on this NG.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Ras
>
Ras,
No, I don't think you're way out of line asking here in the newsgroup.
But I think what you're asking is a lot more than a "simple website".
For instance, the matching won't at all be easy.
To take your example - what if this listing is for "pumps"? Do you put
it in "shoes" or "machinery"? OK, so you look for the word "shoes".
But now it lists "horse shoes", as in the game.
Additionally, do you have permission from EBay to use their information
in this way? All of it is copyrighted, and using it without their
permission can get you and the developer in a lot of trouble. Of
course, if this is for valid research, I would think they would be quite
willing to grant that permission. And any responsible developer would
want to ensure this is in place before starting.
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