Anyone have a definition list of variables used to create eBay RSS? I only have about half of them defined. Thanks! hanji
Hello Kerosene Not 'tags' but variables. For instance, if I made a custom search and grabbed the URL link to access the generated RSS file, it would look like this: http://rss.api.ebay.com/ws/rssapi?F...rv=1&fspt=1&sabdhi=500&ftrt=1&afmp=&sadis=200 What I would like is a break down of what these querystring variables refer to.. for example: ftrt fss catref fsoo from Code (markup): I think we can leverage these RSS feeds a little better if we knew the definitions of some of the variables used to create the RSS. hanji
Aha gotcha! I usually only ever use the obvious ones - category, max price, sort by, etc... Why not just load up eBay's advanced search and change 1 field at a time, then just work out which part of the RSS url changes. I know it's not a very clever way of doing it - but that's the way I work out what the vars in the url refer to.
That's where I started, but I wanted to see if there was a way to only get gallery listings (listings with only images), and that is not an option in advanced search. I saw reference to fcl=4 that will do this, but why? And what will the other values provide (1,2,?). Thanks! hanji
I've found a few that might be useful. sascs = what types of listings to search, 0=All, 1=Auctions, 2=Buy It Now saprclo = low price saprchi = high price saaff=afcj <-- marks this as a CJ referral link afcj= your cj PID fsop and fsoo are for sorting the listings satitle = search keywords (you can use + and - to refine the search) fts = fields to search, 1 or empty = titles, 2 = titles and descriptions frpp = page size ftrt and ftrv deal with the time limits on listings I'm still working out the bugs, but I have used this to make a Drupal module. Kind of similar to BANS, but you get all the features of Drupal. I just started a site with this module so it is really new. But you can check it out at http://www.kidspl.us
Thanks, I had all of those except for ftrt and ftrv. I've posted my listing on my blog: http://www.money-code.com/node/37 I'm really interested in showing only gallery or featured listing types (which I can control using eBay API, but not RSS). Supposedly, fcl=4 will do this, and I think it returns auctions with images related, but if it's not gallery you'll still receive the polaroid default image. Nice site BTW.. drupal is great.. and I like your template hanji