NAME

WWW::Search::Ebay::Completed - backend for searching completed auctions on www.ebay.com

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::Search;
  my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Ebay::Completed');
  my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("Yakface");
  $oSearch->native_query($sQuery);
  $oSearch->login('ebay_username', 'ebay_password');
  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 http://www.ebay.com.

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

NOTES

You MUST call the login() method with your eBay username and password before trying to fetch any results.

The search is done against completed auctions only.

The query is applied to TITLES only.

See the NOTES section of WWW::Search::Ebay for a description of the results.

METHODS

login

Takes two string arguments, the eBay userid and the eBay password. (See WWW::Search for more information.)

http_request

This method does the heavy-lifting of fetching encrypted pages from ebay.com. (See WWW::Search for more information.)

SEE ALSO

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

CAVEATS

BUGS

Please tell the author if you find any!

AUTHOR

Thanks to Troy Arnold <troy at zenux.net> for figuring out how to do this search.

Maintained by Martin Thurn, mthurn@cpan.org, http://www.sandcrawler.com/SWB/cpan-modules.html.

LEGALESE

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.