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rasiel@dirtyoldbooks.com
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Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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 Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:44 am Post subject:
Oh please oh please oh pleeeease
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I'm hoping someone can help me out. I'm a researcher in need of
developing an automated database and would like to see if someone here
is willing to consider putting together for me a simple website. I'm
not expecting a freebie of course, I'll pay if you're interested.
This is the outline of the project:
This would be a website that pulls records from closed eBay auctions
and stores them in predefined categories. The data would be formatted
by keyword. For example, if we were to pull all auctions over the
course of a year in ebay's categories for shoes I could ask that the
programming place them based on shoe colors black, blue and brown and
ignore all other auctions that do not have those keywords in the
auction title. I would then have on my site a database of shoe auctions
that grows each day and a link for each of the three colors of shoes.
A picture is worth a thousand words - here's a flowchart of the layout
and functionality I have in mind:
http://www.dirtyoldbooks.com/temp/sample1.jpg and, assume you click the
blue shoes link,
http://www.dirtyoldbooks.com/temp/sample2.jpg clicking on any of those
links would then pull up the old auction, stored on my site (not linked
to ebay of course).
I could foresee fancying it up a bit by adding a search function, a
counter for total records stored and a way to delete records caught by
the spider that are irrelevant but that's pretty much the extent of
what I'm looking for.
I can be reached at rasiel at dirty old books dot com but I'll follow
the thread in case I'm waaaay out of line asking for this sort of thing
on this NG.
Many thanks,
Ras |
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Jerry Stuckle
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Joined: 24 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:17 pm Post subject:
Re: Oh please oh please oh pleeeease
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rasiel@dirtyoldbooks.com wrote:
| Quote: | I'm hoping someone can help me out. I'm a researcher in need of
developing an automated database and would like to see if someone here
is willing to consider putting together for me a simple website. I'm
not expecting a freebie of course, I'll pay if you're interested.
This is the outline of the project:
This would be a website that pulls records from closed eBay auctions
and stores them in predefined categories. The data would be formatted
by keyword. For example, if we were to pull all auctions over the
course of a year in ebay's categories for shoes I could ask that the
programming place them based on shoe colors black, blue and brown and
ignore all other auctions that do not have those keywords in the
auction title. I would then have on my site a database of shoe auctions
that grows each day and a link for each of the three colors of shoes.
A picture is worth a thousand words - here's a flowchart of the layout
and functionality I have in mind:
http://www.dirtyoldbooks.com/temp/sample1.jpg and, assume you click the
blue shoes link,
http://www.dirtyoldbooks.com/temp/sample2.jpg clicking on any of those
links would then pull up the old auction, stored on my site (not linked
to ebay of course).
I could foresee fancying it up a bit by adding a search function, a
counter for total records stored and a way to delete records caught by
the spider that are irrelevant but that's pretty much the extent of
what I'm looking for.
I can be reached at rasiel at dirty old books dot com but I'll follow
the thread in case I'm waaaay out of line asking for this sort of thing
on this NG.
Many thanks,
Ras
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Ras,
No, I don't think you're way out of line asking here in the newsgroup.
But I think what you're asking is a lot more than a "simple website".
For instance, the matching won't at all be easy.
To take your example - what if this listing is for "pumps"? Do you put
it in "shoes" or "machinery"? OK, so you look for the word "shoes".
But now it lists "horse shoes", as in the game.
Additionally, do you have permission from EBay to use their information
in this way? All of it is copyrighted, and using it without their
permission can get you and the developer in a lot of trouble. Of
course, if this is for valid research, I would think they would be quite
willing to grant that permission. And any responsible developer would
want to ensure this is in place before starting.
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Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
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rasiel@dirtyoldbooks.com
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Posts: 2
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| Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:17 pm Post subject:
Re: Oh please oh please oh pleeeease
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Jerry Stuckle wrote:
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| Quote: | Ras,
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To take your example - what if this listing is for "pumps"? Do you put
it in "shoes" or "machinery"? OK, so you look for the word "shoes".
But now it lists "horse shoes", as in the game.
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these would be easy - in the first case the logic would simply ignore
pumps and those records skipped while in the latter the data would be
included; however, seeing that "horse shoes" or something similar would
be unlikely to appear in the shoes category the data would not be
seriously polluted. i am only thinking of having programming focus on
one ebay category, not the entire site. also, having a way to manually
delete invalid entries as outlined in the original post would be a
great tool for trimming out invalid records.
| Quote: |
Additionally, do you have permission from EBay to use their information
in this way? All of it is copyrighted, and using it without their
permission can get you and the developer in a lot of trouble. Of
course, if this is for valid research, I would think they would be quite
willing to grant that permission. And any responsible developer would
want to ensure this is in place before starting.
this is more of a problem since it's notoriously difficult to get a |
hold of a "real live person" in a posiion to grant such a request.
however, this is meant for my private use in compiling statistics
towards a book i'm writing so i see little reason why anyone would
object. it might even fall under the 'fair use' clause of copyright
law.
thanks again jerry!
ras |
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