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Monday, July 03, 2006
Display your Ebay items for sale on your own website

Ebay have recently added RSS feeds to search results. If you are an Ebay seller, go to the page where all your items are listed and click the RSS button. The resulting page will look like garbage in a web browser but that's normal.

If you copied the URL from the address bar into a feed reader your items for sale would be pulled in, and if you subscribed to that feed then any future items for sale would also appear as they went on.

Anyway, that's all well and good but how do you get this to appear on another webpage? There are a few ways but here's a fairly simple one that works for me...

1. Go to http://www.feedburner.com , put the feed URL from above in and 'burn' your feed. Register to get the feed when prompted.

2. Go to the section 'publicize' and click on 'Buzzboost'. Select the options required and click 'Activate'. Grab the javascript provided and place it in your page where required.

That should do it.

Another method, rss2html from www.feedforall.com , I couldn't get to work properly (various errors) and was unable to fix using their forums.

Posted by d - 11:01 pm - 0 Comments

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