posted on February 15, 2001 11:05:08 AM
Can someone point to me how these auction assistant type programs programmatically submit auctions and obtain various results from ebay.
Curious as to what type of programming languages are used and what additional software is needed.
Any links to useful sites will be appreciated.
If this post if off-topic, please point me to where to post.
posted on February 15, 2001 01:41:59 PM
I don't know what language the 'professional' programs use, but I wrote my own using Visual Basic.
Here's a link to a site that will show you how to automatically fill in forms and click buttons.
http://vbpoint.cjb.net/
Getting results from Ebay is easy. These 2 lines will download the source of the webpage indicated by URL into the string sInfo. Once the info is downloaded into the string variable, you can use Basic string commands to pick out the information that you need.
sInfo = Inet1.OpenURL(URL, icString)
Do: DoEvents: Loop While Inet1.StillExecuting
