Re:RSS feed support gone for good?
by almog on Monday April 11, 2022 @04:52AM
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At first I thought it might have been a bug, but now that I tested other parameters I see that "_rss=1" isn't just ignored but rather the http response is a redirect to an rss-less path. This doesn't occur with other arbitrary query strings.
This has been the primary way I made my shopping on ebay for over 10 years.
None of the existing tools ebay offers compare to a local Newsboat client that alerts you when:
1. A rare item you've been looking for has been listed.
2. A Buy-It-Now price thershold has been met.
3. An auction is ending in say 6 hours and its price is in the accepted range.
I can think of no convincing reasons why ebay might want to kill this feature intentionally:
Rate limiting has already been in place in case that's what bothered them. In fact, the search rss rate limiting was less restrictive than their official (more advance) find-API. Is this an attempt to get rid of users who should have used the find-API? Maybe, probably not though.
If there isn't already an open source translation service that takes an ebay search URL as its input and returns an RSS feed as its result, I will try to write one.
This has been the primary way I made my shopping on ebay for over 10 years. None of the existing tools ebay offers compare to a local Newsboat client that alerts you when:
1. A rare item you've been looking for has been listed.
2. A Buy-It-Now price thershold has been met.
3. An auction is ending in say 6 hours and its price is in the accepted range.
I can think of no convincing reasons why ebay might want to kill this feature intentionally: Rate limiting has already been in place in case that's what bothered them. In fact, the search rss rate limiting was less restrictive than their official (more advance) find-API. Is this an attempt to get rid of users who should have used the find-API? Maybe, probably not though.
If there isn't already an open source translation service that takes an ebay search URL as its input and returns an RSS feed as its result, I will try to write one.