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WWW-Search-Ebay
Posted on 2008-11-06 00:18:06-08 by scottcoburn
search results intermittant
Hello, I have been getting very intermittant results lately. My search script gets results on (maybe) one in a hundred searches. When I use ebay's search page I get results, so the items I am searching for should be found. I have tried turning on some of the debugging in Search.pm and Ebay.pm. Everything looks to go OK, but no results. I can copy the "Submitting URL" url text into my browser's Location window and get search results. Please let me know if you need any other information. Thanks, Scott
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Posted on 2008-11-06 00:49:49-08 by mthurn in response to 9227
Re: search results intermittant
Are you sure you're using the latest version? The distro is version 2.248 released on Oct. 21st...
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Posted on 2008-11-06 01:58:51-08 by scottcoburn in response to 9228
Re: search results intermittant
Here is my perl module information: cpan[1]> m WWW::Search CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18) Going to read /var/cache/cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:26:52 GMT Module id = WWW::Search DESCRIPTION Front-end to Web search engines CPAN_USERID MTHURN (Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn <mthurn@verizon.net>) CPAN_VERSION 2.562 CPAN_FILE M/MT/MTHURN/WWW-Search-2.504.tar.gz UPLOAD_DATE 2008-07-21 DSLIP_STATUS MmpO? (mature,mailing-list,perl,object-oriented,) MANPAGE WWW::Search - Virtual base class for WWW searches INST_FILE /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/WWW/Search.pm INST_VERSION 2.562 cpan[2]> m WWW::Search::Ebay Module id = WWW::Search::Ebay DESCRIPTION search auctions on www.ebay.com CPAN_USERID MTHURN (Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn <mthurn@verizon.net>) CPAN_VERSION 2.231 CPAN_FILE M/MT/MTHURN/WWW-Search-Ebay-2.248.tar.gz DSLIP_STATUS RdpOp (released,developer,perl,object-oriented,Standard-Perl) MANPAGE WWW::Search::Ebay - backend for searching www.ebay.com INST_FILE /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/WWW/Search/Ebay.pm INST_VERSION 2.220 So, the Ebay version is 2.231, but is from a file with version 2.248... Maybe I don't have it installed correctly? Thanks, Scott
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Posted on 2008-11-06 02:36:52-08 by mthurn in response to 9229
Re: search results intermittant
CPAN_VERSION 2.231
INST_VERSION 2.220

This is the key -- version 2.231 is available on CPAN, but you only have 2.220 installed! Please upgrade and see if that helps

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Posted on 2008-11-06 22:14:45-08 by scottcoburn in response to 9230
Re: search results intermittant
Yup, that seems to have fixed it. Thanks.
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