Forums Scripts & Popups ebay socket

I was thinking that i could make an ebay search script but am having no luck. I don't know if anyone has looked at the source for an ebay search but they put all the results on one very large line. The question I have is, if the size of the code is to large does mirc not store it in a var? This is what I have and everytime I try it it skips over the results

You might want that one line to be"

You have it set for $2, which means it won't return anything if you're only searching for a term with one word. I tried it and it seems to work when I changed that. I noticed a few lines said line too long, and I didn't look over the HTML closely, but it seemed to get results.

even when i changed it to that i get this as result
The items never gets listed. No matter how I change it I get that as the result.

on *:SOCKREAD:ebay: {
if ($sockerr) {
echo -s SockError $sockname $sockerr
return
}
else {
var %temptext
sockread %temptext
if (*viewitem* iswm %temptext) { echo -a $gettok(%temptext,2-,62) }
}
}


var sViewItemUrl = 'http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem';
cfg.aAlertInfo = [ ["h:h:alt:2","You've been outbid!","icon/iconOutbid_16x16.gif",sViewItemUrl,["item"]],
["h:h:alt:3","Watched Item ending soon!","icon/iconWatchB_16x16.gif",sViewItemUrl,["item"]],
["h:h:alt:4","You've been outbid!","icon/iconOutbid_16x16.gif",sViewItemUrl,["item"]],
["h:h:alt:5","You've received a Second Chance Offer","icon/iconchanceBlu_16x16.gif",sViewItemUrl,["item"]]
var view_item_path = "http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=";
ebay.oUtils.oPrefetch.load("http://include.ebaystatic.com/js/e459/us/features/viewitem/viewitem_e4594us.js");


It echo's those lines because that is what you told it to do.

Try changing your sockread event like this to see exactly what the page looks like:



When you find the exact line you are looking for, you can make your if-statement more precise.

-genius_at_work

thanks for that info. That will make it eaiser to do sockets in the future. It looks like the problem is when it gets to the lines that have the results i get this error
* /echo: line too long (line 19, ebay.mrc)
and i get alot of those. Is there a way around this?

You will likely need to use a binary variable. Unfortunately, I'm not too familiar with binary variables, so I won't be able to help you with the specifics.

-genius_at_work

well thats a start. I can try and find out about that and see what i come up with. Thanks for the info though. Just a little direction is all I need