# Ebay/ByEndDate.pm # by Martin Thurn # $Id: ByEndDate.pm,v 2.31 2009/05/02 13:28:09 Martin Exp $ =head1 NAME WWW::Search::Ebay::ByEndDate - backend for searching www.ebay.com, with results sorted with "items ending first" =head1 SYNOPSIS use WWW::Search; my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Ebay::ByEndDate'); my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("C-10 carded Yakface"); $oSearch->native_query($sQuery); while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result()) { print $oResult->url, "\n"; } =head1 DESCRIPTION This class is a Ebay specialization of WWW::Search. It handles making and interpreting Ebay searches F. This class exports no public interface; all interaction should be done through L objects. =head1 NOTES The calling program must ensure that the Date::Manip module is able to determine the local timezone. The easiest way is to set the environment variable TZ, or by calling &Date_Init(). See the documentation of Date::Manip. The search is done against CURRENT running auctions only. The query is applied to TITLES only. The results are ordered auctions ending soon first (order of increasing auction ending date). In the resulting WWW::Search::Result objects, the description field consists of a human-readable combination (joined with semicolon-space) of the Item Number; number of bids; and high bid amount (or starting bid amount). In the WWW::Search::Result objects, the change_date field contains the auction ending date & time in ISO 8601 format; i.e. year-month-dayThour:minute:second. =head1 SEE ALSO To make new back-ends, see L. =head1 CAVEATS =head1 BUGS Please tell the author if you find any! =head1 AUTHOR C was written by and is maintained by Martin Thurn C, L. =head1 LEGALESE Copyright (C) 1998-2009 Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. =cut ##################################################################### package WWW::Search::Ebay::ByEndDate; use strict; use warnings; use Carp; use Data::Dumper; use Date::Manip; use base 'WWW::Search::Ebay'; our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 2.31 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%03d" x $#r, @r }; our $MAINTAINER = 'Martin Thurn '; # Damn it's hard to get a timezone: my ($n, $isdst); ($n, $n, $n, $n, $n, $n, $n, $n, $isdst) = localtime(time); my $EBAY_TZ = 'PST'; substr($EBAY_TZ, 1, 1) = 'D' if $isdst; # private sub _native_setup_search { my ($self, $native_query, $rhOptsArg) = @_; $rhOptsArg ||= {}; unless (ref($rhOptsArg) eq 'HASH') { carp " --- second argument to _native_setup_search should be hashref, not arrayref"; return undef; } # unless $rhOptsArg->{'SortProperty'} = 'MetaEndSort'; # my @a = sort &Date_Init(); # print STDERR " III BEFORE: ", Dumper(\@a); &Date_Init("ConvTZ=$EBAY_TZ"); # @a = sort &Date_Init(); # print STDERR " III AFTER: ", Dumper(\@a); # We need to know the time in eBayLand right now: my $dateToday = &ParseDate('today'); my $tz = $Date::Manip::Cnf{TZ}; # &UnixDate('today', '%Z'); # print STDERR " today ==$dateToday==\n"; # print STDERR " from tz ==$tz==\n"; # print STDERR " to tz ==$EBAY_TZ==\n"; $self->{_today_} = &Date_ConvTZ($dateToday, $tz, $EBAY_TZ); # print STDERR " today == ", $self->{_today_}, "\n"; # exit; return $self->SUPER::_native_setup_search($native_query, $rhOptsArg); } # _native_setup_search # Enforce sorting by end date, even if Ebay is returning it in a # different order. (They will be out of order if there are "Featured # Items" at the top of the page.) Calls _parse_tree() of the base # class, and then reshuffles its 'cache' results. Code contributed by # Mike Schilli. sub _parse_tree { my ($self, @args) = @_; my $hits = $self->SUPER::_parse_tree(@args); $self->{cache} ||= []; if (0) { # Convert all eBay relative times to absolute times: $self->{cache} = [ map { my $iMin = _minutes($_->change_date) || _minutes(_date_to_rel($_->change_date, $self->{_today_})); $_->change_date(&UnixDate(&DateCalc($self->{_today_}, " + $iMin minutes"), '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S')); $_ } grep { ref } @{$self->{cache}} ]; } # if # Sort by date using a Schwartzian transform to save memory: $self->{cache} = [ map { $_->[0] } sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] } map { [ $_, $_->change_date ] } @{$self->{cache}} ]; return $hits; } # _parse_tree use constant DEBUG_MINUTES => 0; sub _minutes { my $s = shift; DEBUG_MINUTES && print STDERR " III _minutes($s)...\n"; my $min = 0; $min += 60*24*$1 if $s =~ /(\d+)\s?[dT]/; $min += 60*$1 if $s =~ /(\d+)\s?[hS]/; $min += $1 if $s =~ /(\d+)\s?[mM]/; DEBUG_MINUTES && print STDERR " min=$min=\n"; return $min; } # _minutes sub _date_to_rel { my $string = shift; my $today = shift; DEBUG_MINUTES && print STDERR " III _date_to_rel($string)...\n"; my $date = ParseDate($string) || ''; DEBUG_MINUTES && print STDERR " raw date =$date=...\n"; my $delta = DateCalc($today, $date) || 0; DEBUG_MINUTES && print STDERR " delta =$delta=...\n"; # Convert to minutes: my $iMin = int(&Delta_Format($delta, 0, '%mt')); my $result = "$iMin min"; DEBUG_MINUTES && print STDERR " result =$result=...\n"; return $result; } # _date_to_rel 1; __END__