Thanks. I saw the link after posting and saw that the author had occasionally had some trouble in the last second (due to swoopo's handling of all the simultaneous bids it seems). I wonder how much this will skew any results. Also, there are 179 live auctions right now, but I figure tracking about 25% should be more than enough for statistical purposes.
In the link above provided by JimmyL, the author says that he wrote such a script (and gives a description of his experiment). Try to email him, I think he'll share it.