WWW::Search::Ebay::Completed(3p)

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.)

  _parse_enddate
Defines how to parse the auction ending date from the HTML. (See WWW::Search::Ebay 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.