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| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:45:51 am | by CraigBox | |
| Older page: | version 3 | Last edited on Monday, October 18, 2004 1:34:40 am | by PerryLorier | Revert |
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!!!ClosingSoon
http://closingsoon.corrupt.co.nz/
-Mail alerts on search matches with "closing soon" auctions on TradeMe
+Mail alerts and [RSS] items
on search matches with "closing soon" auctions on [
TradeMe|http://www.trademe.co.nz/]
__Backend__ - [Perl], parses trademe pages and extractions auctions, notifies any users that match search criteria.
-__Frontend__ - [PHP], simple subscription frontend.
+__Frontend__ - [PHP], simple subscription frontend. [RSS] feature available (thanks for the idea [PerryLorier])
__Author__ - [DrewBroadley]
----
-Idea: Add an [RSS]/Atom feed instead
of an email notification? Lots of people hate to give up their email notifications, but [RSS] feeds are popular, especially with firefoxes automatic support with
"Live bookmarks
" and are pretty trivial to implement
. --PerryLorier
+
+!!Sample
of Email
+<verbatim>
+------------------------- Search results for
"kenwood
" ----------------------------
+
+Kenwood SW-06HT Subwoofer - New ($36
.00)
+
+ 5 bid(s) closing in 8 mins
+ http://www.trademe.co.nz/lists
-closing/0124
-0424-0725-/auction-17021375.htm
+
+--------------------
+
+Mail alerts naturally expire in 7 days from activation, to unsubscribe earlier from this mail alert follow this link:
+http://closingsoon.corrupt.co.nz/?exec=user&action=del&md5=<snip>&keyword=kenwood
+</verbatim>
