From: Troy Denkinger <tdenkinger@...>
Date: 2006-12-22T15:03:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Just starting out, where do I go from here?

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On 12/21/06, Alexander York <s.disparu@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Where I have interest in going with Ruby
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> -Screen scraping eBay for specific products/information
> -(unrelated but need help finding this)Image recognition software
> -Web based management for screen scraping and storing of data/pdf
> creation of auctions


Screen scraping is good fun and all, but have you looked into the web
services APIs that eBay makes available?  There may be much easier ways to
get at data than screen scraping.  Look at the "Developers" link at the
bottom of their homepage.

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