[Announce] Queen BeeCon Widget - Ebay Item Watcher - maemo.org

No!No!No!Yes! | # 1 | 2010-04-20, 21:57 | Report

Customize Queen BeeCon Widget (>=v0.1.4) to display:
Ebay Item Watcher (Updated and Tested on 11 Aug 2010)
The Beecon will watch an item that you specify and will provide a small Photo, Item Number, Current Bid or Buy It Now Price, Time Left for bidding, Bid Count, High Bidder and Quantity.

Ready?!

Preparation Steps:

Download and Install Queen Beecon Widget (>=v0.1.4) (Warning! It's still in extras-devel; if you like it, I need your support for testing and promoting to Testing and Extras)
Save icons/images attached to the post (or Download and extract zip file attached to the thread for your convenience) and store images in the specified N900 directory, create it if not existing. (Warning: inside the zip file there could be images with numbers appended to common graphic filenames extensions - ex. football-icon.png.3 - this is NOT an error!) - Do NOT save the following images as their filename will not be correct!

No Images Needed unless you want a custom background
Just drop them HERE:

Make sure you copy the following Exported Instance Data to your phone's clipboard. (Do not modify anything as it is checksum protected and modifications will invalidate checksum!)
See HERE for tutorial

Code:

[queen-beecon-header]
version=1,000000
checksum=5864742
[queen-beecon-exported-instance]
widgetType=1
widgetVisible=1
operationalStatus=0
hideCanvas=false
snippetBgRGB=0
snippetExtBgRGB=#000000000000
beecon_lt0_ImgZoom=0
beecon_lt0_BgRGB=2
beecon_lt0_ExtBgRGB=#808080808080
beecon_lt0_ImgFilename=queen-beecon-syserr.png
beecon_eq0_ImgZoom=0
beecon_eq0_BgRGB=3
beecon_eq0_ExtBgRGB=#0000ffff0000
beecon_eq0_ImgFilename=queen-beecon-appok.png
beecon_eq1_ImgZoom=0
beecon_eq1_BgRGB=4
beecon_eq1_ExtBgRGB=#ffffffff0000
beecon_eq1_ImgFilename=queen-beecon-appwrn.png
beecon_ge2_ImgZoom=0
beecon_ge2_BgRGB=5
beecon_ge2_ExtBgRGB=#ffff00000000
beecon_ge2_ImgFilename=queen-beecon-apperr.png
beecon_idxge2_ImgZoom=0
beecon_idxge2_BgRGB=11
beecon_idxge2_ExtBgRGB=#0000ffffffff
beecon_idxge2_ImgFilename=queen-beecon-index.png
widWidth=510
widHeight=175
instanceTitle=Ebay Object Watch
instanceCmd=export id="120606773096"; wget -t 1 -T 10 -q -U "CERN-LineMode/2.15" -O - "http://m.ebay.com/Pages/ViewItem.aspx?aid=$id" |  awk -v j="/tmp/qbwebay0.jpg" -v l="/tmp/qbwebay0.log" ' BEGIN { FS="" } { x=split($0,m,"(<img src=\\")|(\\" alt=\\"\\"><\\/td>)"); sub(/width=[0-9]+/,"width=130",m[4]); r=system("wget --user-agent=\\"\\" -q -o \\"" l "\\" -t 1 -T 10 -O \\"" j "\\" \\"http://m.ebay.com/Pages/" m[4] "\\""); x=split($0,m,"(<strong>)|(<\\/strong>)"); print "<span foreground=\\"green\\">" m[2] "</span>"; x=split($0,m,"(<span style=[^>]*important;[^>]*\\">)|(<\\/span>)"); p=0; do { gsub(/<[^>]*>+/,"",m[i]); if(p==0||m[i]==" "||m[i]=="  "){ if(m[i]=="Item number:"){ p=1; printf"<span foreground=\\"white\\">" m[i] "</span>"; } i++;continue;  } if (index(m[i],":")==length(m[i]))  l="\\n<span foreground=\\"cyan\\">"; else  l=" <span foreground=\\"red\\">"; printf "%s%s</span>",l,m[i]; i++; } while (m[i-3]!="Quantity:"); print ""; return r; }'|fold -s -w 60
rememberMe=
cmdImgFilename=queen-beecon.png
cmdImgZoom=0
cmdFgRGB=1
cmdExtFgRGB=#ffffffffffff
cmdTextAngle=0
cmdVisibilityPosition=0
cmdImgVisibilityPosition=0
cmdJustify=0
cmdExtFont=Nokia Sans bold italic 16
cmdFontName=3
cmdFontSize=16
resImgFilename=/tmp/qbwebay0.jpg
resImgZoom=0
resFgRGB=1
resExtFgRGB=#000000000000
resTextAngle=0
resVisibilityPosition=1
resImgVisibilityPosition=9
resJustify=0
resExtFont=Nokia Sans bold 14
resFontName=2
resFontSize=14
progressAnimationFrames=4
progressAnimationTimer=4
progressAnimationPos=4
progressAnimationBasename=queen-beecon-progress
updOnStartup=false
updOnClick=true
updOnDesktop=false
updOnSight=false
delayIndex=0
customIntervalSecs=0
updNeworkPolicy=1
updOnDBUS=0
updOnDBUSBus=0
updOnDBUSMatchRule=

Proceed with the import of the "Exported Instance Data" according to the following instructions:
Import Procedure for Beecon Exported Instance Data

And Here we Are!!!
To change the Item Number with one of your choice proceed as follows:

Let's start the Main Settings Dialog Box Again and click on the "Edit Cmd" button
Let's scroll the command code until we find the following string:

... export id="130384074106"; ...
And replace it with the Item Number of choice
Save changed command with relevant button
Change Update Policies as you like
"Save and Run" to launch the Beecon!

WARNING!!! If you want to use more then one Widget at the same time you need to tweak the Beecon a little bit to make it Multi-Instance:

Repeat steps for creation and import of new Beecon as above
Start the Main Settings Dialog Box Again and click on the "Edit Cmd" button
Replace Item Numer of choice
Let's scroll the command code until we find the following strings:

... -v j="/tmp/qbwebay0.jpg" -v l="/tmp/qbwebay0.log" ...
And replace "0" with a new Number let's say "1" (for other instances proceed with 2, 3, ...)

... -v j="/tmp/qbwebay1.jpg" -v l="/tmp/qbwebay1.log" ...
Save changed command with relevant button
Scroll down until you find the section of settings below
And replace "0" with the Number you specified before; let's say "1" (for other instances proceed with 2, 3, ...)
Change Update Policies again as you like
"Save and Run" to launch the Beecon!

Have Fun!!!

Data is made available on the internet and is freely accessible also through a normal browser by pointing to m.ebay.com. Credits go to the cited Companies, Organizations, Product, Services. Please report if any contents is neither appropriate nor allowed to be published and it will be removed within short time span.

Last edited by No!No!No!Yes!; 2010-08-11 at 19:40.

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No!No!No!Yes! | # 2 | 2010-04-21, 07:21 | Report

Please let me know if anybody knows the Ebay API and options to fetch the Item Photo with fixed size (width/height) constraints.

No!No!No!Yes! | # 3 | 2010-05-22, 23:25 | Report

Is this what you get:

In this case I suspect ebay changed something inside the structure of the HTML page and the page parsing command/script needs to be reviewed.

Could you please confirm?

Last edited by No!No!No!Yes!; 2010-05-23 at 09:40.

Lake | # 4 | 2010-05-23, 09:13 | Report

Yes this is exactly what I get

No!No!No!Yes! | # 5 | 2010-05-23, 17:51 | Report

OK, QBW Exported Data in first post should be fixed and working as of now 201005231945 CET

Beecon's a little bit wider and taller, a "fold" command should force lines to wrap at 60 chars length and hopefully not overlap picture which has been moved at bottom right.

Lake | # 6 | 2010-05-23, 18:43 | Report

That's MUCH better - many thanks. One residual issue I can see (maybe something I need to change) - the time left reads the time as 12:01 and doesn't change (although the time left does)

No!No!No!Yes! | # 7 | 2010-05-23, 18:55 | Report

Originally Posted by Lake View Post

That's MUCH better - many thanks. One residual issue I can see (maybe something I need to change) - the time left reads the time as 12:01 and doesn't change (although the time left does)

Could you please post screenshot?

Lake | # 8 | 2010-05-23, 19:56 | Report

Here you go

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No!No!No!Yes! | # 9 | 2010-05-23, 22:02 | Report

Originally Posted by Lake View Post

Here you go

Well ... auction has ended ... that time/date won't change any more forever!
Why not trying with another object still not expired?

Lake | # 10 | 2010-07-10, 18:35 | Report

Hi

I appear to have lost data on item number, current bids etc. I don't know why since I haven't changed any of the text settings. Screenshot below.

What settings should I check?

Thanks