From: Alexander York Date: 2006-12-22T15:14:06+09:00 Subject: Re: Just starting out, where do I go from here? Troy Denkinger wrote: > On 12/21/06, Alexander York wrote: >> >> Where I have interest in going with Ruby >> >> -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. Hmm looks like good advice, could you perhaps give me an example of how I could apply this with ruby? (I'm still new) I will need to be able to search a brand of products and search each individual auction for specific text. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.