Flipper Tools / Watchcount

eBay have recently changed the HTML of their CGI page which reveals sold listings for shop pages, so any tools which scrape them will need updating so they can accurately select the right thing from the new design.

What is affected:

  • Any third-party website which scraped sold items from eBay shops.

What isn’t affected:

  • Any third-party website which scraped sold items from eBay accounts.
  • Any third-party browser extension which linked directly to eBay’s CGI pages.

This change only appears to affect the US eBay website so far, all other domains seem to work as they used to. For now, just change the TLD of an eBay shop item’s URL from .com to .co.uk, .ca, .com.au, or whatever else and you should be fine.

As mentioned above, FlipperTools is down for some other reason at the moment.

If you want to reveal the sale price yourself, I posted how to do this manually here: www.elitefourum.com/t/what-are-your-thoughts-on-ebay-users-asking-about-sold-items/25707/14.

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