+1
The only problem I have now is not knowing if a auction has been sold or canceled. An easy fix would be for them to leave all auctions up on auctions.list , regardless of status until the expiration date and add a status field. Being able to query any auction that has ever existed could be very resource intensive if there are enough people playing around with the API.
Posted 15 months ago by
Malero

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@Malero: Finished auction's don't seem to vanish quickly (
this one for example is 11 days old). I doubt it's a big resource problem, as the HTML output probably uses the "missing" API call (or similar) anyway.
Posted 15 months ago by
Revilo

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I'd like to know how long auctions take to sell at various prices, but trying to do it at any scale, for example, every auction posted, isn't really possible. It's taking too long and it feels too clumsy to parse the html of the auction page to find out when it sold or if it was cancelled once it disappears from the list.
Using auction.list isn't a reliable method to find all auctions either ... once they sell, they disappear from the list. Helpful to find ones that you can now check to see if they sold or were cancelled, but you likely miss some stuff in between queries if it was posted, then sold immediately.
So, I'd like to see either auctions.status where you can pass an id or list of ids and get the status of those auctions.
Or, change auctions.list so that you can get all auctions from a date range, not just active auctions, and provide the status of those auctions, sold or cancelled for example.
Then, I'll make some pretty graphs with the data and help people decide on a reasonable price that will sell in a reasonable amount of time, not just 'undercut thy neighbor's price' ... :)
But this is all just for fun, so I'll just play with what they give me for now.
Posted 14 months ago by
Edgar Druin

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