BANS Technology

[clix99]

Hi,
I was wondering, How does the BANS pulls information from the ebay database?

I tried the Editor Kit Tool ebay affiliate program offers and it seems like the BANS pages are built with Editor Kits with different keywords and design.

Anyway... That's only my guess.
My other guess is they use the API option...

So.. Which is it?

[decodethis]

BANS uses eBay's RSS feeds which it dissects and redisplays.

[Paintball Guns]

I use BANS (http://www.buildanichestore.com) and it works great. There are other options to display the eBay RSS feed on your website, like this: http://www.tonyrocks.com/index.php/tutorials/adding-an-ebay-rss-feed-to-your-wordpress-blog/

Search for BANS around this forum and you will find other options as well.

[darkmessiah]

I rolled my own, it's not that much code to do and I feed the rss with my wordpress tags and get targeted auctions. I'm just to lazy to write up css to do anything fancy with it.

On a side note, I have a referral from phpbay's store, I think someone was trying to get my attention.

[clix99]

Thanks everybody,

I tried getting RSS feeds. After following the 5 steps of the RSS Feed Generator on affiliate.ebay.com i got a feed error - a feed page with 'feed error'

I changed the keywords and search options and i'm sure the PID is correct. But still 'feed error'...

Anyone had this problem or know what to do?


thanks again..

[lggmaster]

im getting the same errors, everything from a small very defined search to a broad search, i end up getting a feed error.

[darkmessiah]

How can you get a feed error? if you go to the advanced search page and do you search, on the bottom of the next page should have the url to use for your feed.

Are you trying to insert keywords into the url manually? If so, ebay rss won't accept a spaces between your keywords.. they must look like this... keyword+keyword.

[clix99]

I tried everything like lggmaster said - very specific searches and broad ones get me the 'error feed' all the time.

I'm an approved ebay affiliate through CJ and this is very confusing... the results page (before the RSS) gets me the items that are on ebay just fine. But the RSS feed is just an error feed no metter what i items are on the results page.

What am i doing wrong? Like i said - I followed the steps of the instructions and it's always the same....

Please anyone...

[darkmessiah]

are you able to see an inveractive listing when you click on the RSS feed button after the search result? After you click on that, you can use the url as your xml feed.

[clix99]

This is what i get after clicking the orange RSS button:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <rss version="2.0" xmlns:cf="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/rss/core/2005" xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0" xmlns:rx="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
- <channel>
- <title>
- <![CDATA[ Feed error
]]>
</title>
- <link>
- <![CDATA[ http://www.ebay.com
]]>
</link>
- <description>
- <![CDATA[ Feed error
]]>
</description>
- <item>
- <description>
- <![CDATA[ Internal error to the application. (10007)

]]>
</description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

I get this with every search i do. This results page looks fine.
Like i said, i'm sure my PID is correct and i'm and approved ebay affiliate.
Anyone else get this problem? or knows what to do?

thanks...

[triplex]

do you think that google will actually read the content of ebays rss inserted as javascript on an html website?

Doesnt bans work the same way?

[triplex]

This is what i get after clicking the orange RSS button:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <rss version="2.0" xmlns:cf="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/rss/core/2005" xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0" xmlns:rx="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
- <channel>
- <title>
- <![CDATA[ Feed error
]]>
</title>
- <link>
- <![CDATA[ http://www.ebay.com
]]>
</link>
- <description>
- <![CDATA[ Feed error
]]>
</description>
- <item>
- <description>
- <![CDATA[ Internal error to the application. (10007)

]]>
</description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

I get this with every search i do. This results page looks fine.
Like i said, i'm sure my PID is correct and i'm and approved ebay affiliate.
Anyone else get this problem? or knows what to do?

thanks...

i fixed that error just selecting "best match" at the bottom of ebays search page

[darkmessiah]

what browser are you using?

[triplex]

what browser are you using?

firefox

claudio

[gogoplata]

V3 is coming out in a few week. IDK if it will solve your problems as I don't know if it will use feed still BUT it is going to be able to pull entire category listings, not just the feed minimum. The problem might resolve with the new release

[auburnfan23]

I figured out how to get mine working without any errors..

Would this type of code work on a blogspot blog?