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[RapalaGuru]

Howdy Ya'll,
I know, I've been MIA for awhile.
Been busy,work, work, more work.

I'm looking for some 'personal time'
in a few weeks (Quack, Quack)

Anyway.....

As a few of you might remember, I used to do a monthy e-bay report. I would print out all the auctions that made my watch list during the month.
Well, do to time issues. I stopped doing the report.
However, I do still print out several 100 auction's each month

(it's part of the research, I keep on Rapala's)

Now for you computer types,

Can I just save each auction to a folder?
And

Will it also save the picture?

I'd 'like' to know if this is do-able
before I go and then have to delete a whole bunch of stuff
off my computer.

Steve "Rapala-Guru"

ps. I also have been keeping a eye on the board and it appears that it's gaining new members.
Howdy to Ya'll

[Fishooked]

Steve,

Hey - do you mean saving the auction link? I guess you could, although Im pretty sure all auction links become dead after 60 days after it ends. And the image link could expire even sooner, depending if the seller removes the image from wherever its hosted.

If they're using ebay to host the image then it should be available for 60 days - hope that helps!

Ted

[RapalaGuru]

Nope,
What I'm wodering is,

Can I save the whole page?

Sort of like we do when we 'right-click' a picture.

Can you do the same with a whole auction page including the picture

Steve "Rapala-Guru"

[Bodeen]

You should be able to go to file save as and depending on how you're set up and broswer specs and things like that, you should be able to save the entire page. Might have to right click and dl the pic as well. Will have to change where the html file points to the picture at as it now resides in some directory on your computer and not where the seller had it.

Another thing you can do is click on View, View source. Save the file as a HTML file and name it however you like. Then download the main picture. You won't have all the neat ebay pics, but that can be fixed with a little work. Might have to change where the html file on your computer points to the picture at since it will now reside on your computer.

You can create a web page in notepad. Consider it a template. Download all of the Ebay images you need into a certain folder. Have this template point to that folder for all the source images. Then whenever you see an auction, you can copy and paste the information into your template, name it whatever.html and save it as that. You just throw in a link to the image and you should be set.

Let me try a few things and see how different things work.

[Bodeen]

Okay. I did the view source thing and it came up in notepad and I saved it as the auction number.html

110035299791.html

Now all of the ebay pictures are showing up mainly because I am still on line and they coded their pages with direct linking.

i12.ebayimg.com/03/i/07/a7/06/73_12.JPG

The users image is showing up as well. This is because the page I saved is pointing to wherever he has it stored. Which is on Ebay.

i12.ebayimg.com/03/i/07/a7/06/73_12.JPG

So if you have a folder called Ebay, and in it you had a folder called auctions and a folder called pics (just to keep things neater) you would just change that from where it points to:

C:\Ebay\Pics\73_12.JPG

There is a shorter way using ../pics, but I don't know your level in coding.

Now when searching that ebay file, you pulled up in notepad to save it on your computer, instead of trying to find the photo link, just type in the name of the photo that comes up when you right click and save the photo. 73_12.JPG. Makes it easier to know which photo is the correct one.

The only issue that might come up is if Ebay does some remodeling. Like puts the Buy it now photo in another place. Since all of the pages you save will still point to wherever ebay has them pointing. The only way to change that would be to make a template and that is a bit of work considering how they have their stuff coded.

</script><noscript><tr><td bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding:30px 0 5px 5px"><span style="font: normal 10pt arial;"><a href="#ebayphotohosting">View larger picture</a></span></td></tr></noscript></table></td></tr></table></td><td width="6"><img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" width="6" height="1"></td></tr></table></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><div id="FastVIPDetails"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="4" width="100%"><tr><td colspan="4"><img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" width="1" height="5"></td></tr><form method="get" action="http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll" style="margin: 0;"><input type="hidden" name="MfcISAPICommand" value="BinConfirm"><input type="hidden" name="fb" value="1"><input type="hidden" name="co_partnerid" value=""><input type="hidden" name="item" value="110035299791"><tr valign="middle"><td align="left" nowrap width="25%"><span class="titlePurchase"><img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/bin_15x54.gif" alt="Buy It Now" align="middle"> pr

All that is one line of text. The line of text that hold the buy it now photo. Their coding sucks. That line ends in pr and the next line just has ice: price: Then the next line finishes out their table. Not too organized so it might be a long haul to tweak it.

I point out the template thing for one main reason. Lets say you want all the ebay goodies on the pages. Lets say you have saved 500 auctions and they look awesome. Now ebay moves just one of their images. You really want to change 500 auctions so the image doesn't show as a broken link?

If all you want is the users descriptions and the price and pictures, then I would make up a template, add in the image and content and save as auciton number.html. However you want to go with it their will be some work involved.

It can't be too hard to make a template that looks like official ebay listings....I get phished for my password all the time
Just a thought.

[RapalaGuru]

Thanks

Steve "Rapala-Guru"

[Bodeen]

Judging from the smiley faces I must have been a little "wordy" in my content. Comes from being a COBOL programmer. If you need any more help, I will be glad to help.

[rapanatic]

Would just taking a screen shot work???

[Bodeen]

Not really

[Inquisitor]

Steve,

I know of one application that would work perfectly for your question.

You can download the web browser Firefox, free download at www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Then, once you're running Firefox, get the browser extension Scrapbook. This is the link below.

addons.mozilla.org/firefox/427/

Once you install it, you have the ability to right click any web page, and capture the page as a folder on your computer.

You can edit the pages as much as you like, highlight or add comments, delete irrelevant things such as banner ads.

I've used Scrapbook to save e-bay auctions myself for later viewing,
or other articles for later reference. It's one of the best reasons for using Firefox.

Just my opinion, Jay