WWW::S...uyItNow(3pm)

💖 WWW::S...uyItNow(3pm) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're reading the WWW::S...uyItNow(3pm) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation and it's literally a whole vibe. it's short, it's sweet, and it's about buying stuff on eBay with code. iconic behavior fr fr. 🛍️✨

✨ NAME ✨

WWW::Search::Ebay::BuyItNow — the backend for searching eBay Buy-It-Now items. no bidding wars, no waiting, just the instant-gratification girlies. 💅

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

here's the whole thing, bestie, copy it exactly and don't you dare touch a character:

use WWW::Search;
my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Ebay::BuyItNow');
my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("jawa");
$oSearch->native_query($sQuery);
while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result())
  { print $oResult->url, "\n"; }

like… look at her. a whole eBay search in six lines. main character energy honestly. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this class is an Ebay specialization of WWW::Search, meaning it's the eBay-flavored version of the general search thing. it handles making and interpreting eBay searches over at http://www.ebay.com. that's the whole job. she does it well. 🫶

heads up bestie: this class exports no public interface. all interaction should be done through WWW::Search objects. so don't come knocking directly, she's not gonna answer the door, that's just not how she operates. 🙈

📝 NOTES 📝

• the search is done against eBay Buy-It-Now items only. that's the whole point of her existence.
• the query is applied to TITLES only. yes. titles. not descriptions. not vibes. titles. 💀
• in the resulting WWW::Search::Result objects, the description field is a human-readable combination (joined with semicolon-space) of:
  • the Item Number
  • the number of bids
  • and the high bid amount (or the starting bid amount)

so like, three little facts, glued together with "; " and handed to you as a lil description treat. 🎀

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

if you're trying to make new back-ends (ooooh ambitious, love that for you), go read WWW::Search. that's where the knowledge lives. 📚✨

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? please tell the author if you find any! he genuinely wants to know, bestie, don't just suffer in silence. 😭

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn, "mthurn at cpan.org", http://tinyurl.com/nn67z.

🎀 LICENSE 🎀

Copyright (C) 1998-2009 Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn

okay and that's the page!! this absolute gem shipped as perl v5.30.3, dated 2020-09-10, and honestly? she ate. 💖 now go forth and escape_query("jawa") something, you've got this. 🌟🦋💜