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searching online auctions

[Lovejoy]

Hi All,

I would like to set up a site that searches several online auctions from one search box. Anyone care to point me in the right direction? Many thanks in advance

[ergophobe]

Where are you with this?

Have you already figured out the API for doing searches on all the auctions you're looking at?

Do you now just need to come up with the code that would generate the various queries?

[Lovejoy]

Thanks for the reply, I'm at ground zero with this and not sure what application to use. I'm always looking for new ways to monetise my sites and the results of my ideas always end up with a steep learning curve ;~)

[ergophobe]

At Ground Zero, I would say this isn't really a PHP question, it's a research question. You need to

1. Identify the sites that you want to search

2. Find out how their search API works and if they even have one. If it's publicly available, they should have it published somewhere the way Amazon does for their API.

3. Sit down with PHP or whatever and figure out how to write the code that will send and receive the information in question.