TWP Auctions – the FREE eBay affiliate script

Thanks. Would be great to have those urls to ebay redirect so they dont appear to be links to ebay and of course nofollow.

Thanks for the great plugin.

One question though, will it work with the new eBay affiliate program after it no longer uses CJ?

P.S. I wish there’s a “subscribe to comment” here so that I know when you reply :)

Yes, I’ll be updating the script. Check back in early April for the updated version.

I been thinking about applying for the ebay aff. program. I have bookmarked your site in case I do. Thanks for sharing your script with us! It looks awesome!

Great!!! Good work guys! Lets say i would like to use ebay uk or spain or italy, can i change something on the file? What part should i modify?
Thanks

@ Claudio, at the moment it’s only for eBay US. I’ll be releasing a new version in the next few days that will let you specify the country.

Thanks Kerosene!!!

Nice script, but when I run it I only get the price and pictures of the items, no title or discription. can you help.

Nick, try the latest version. If you’re still having problems, please post in the forum where I can help you in more detail.

Thamks Kerosene, had it working fine until a few days ago,
when all my rss scripts stopped working. All I get is a blank page or blank from where the script is to start and the page stops loading. This only happens with eBay, I’ve used other rss scripts and they work O.K. with amazon, news feeds and such, eBay rss is the only one that the problem, do I need to use a seperate cache. Or is my provider at fault. With MagicRss I get, caching disabled check your configuration, any ideas. Thanks once again nick.

I’m using version 3 (beta) and it’s working fine. Thank you! :D

Thank you very must for your time in creating this small effective plugin. Its an excellent idea and very kind of you to allow others to share it. Good luck to you in future and keep up the great work.

Best Regards
Nick

It works! I’m going to put this on all my blogs. thank you!

Thank you for this. i am using it on my wordpress websites.

Is there any chance we could display just auction titles as text links etc.?

Can it be modified to use pepperjam-ebay id’s?

Dito for the pjn ebay id.

Thanks for the great plugin. I was looking for an easy ebay plugin for wordpress and your script is what i need :)

Thanks for this, it may well come in handy!

Thanks for the new version with categories and Ebay Seller ID. This script is now ready to be offered for sale. With the simplicity, flexibility and universality this script now competes and surpasses any ebay wp plugin out there. Whoever got this script for free consider yourselves very lucky.

Hi,
Thanks for this script. It is so easy to use. I set up my blog in no time with your great instructions. I am so glad I found TWP Auctions.

Cool tool. Works great! Thanks!

Thanks for sharing this great plugin. EPN is a great way to monetize your site!

Hey guys,

Thanks for this script. Used it, works great

Does this work with a BANS site?

@ adisa: It works with any PHP powered website.

Hi

I’ve installed the script and tried running it as per the instructions but am getting this error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: simplexml_load_string() in /home/sites/ebayconsoles.info/public_html/twpauctions.php on line 8

What am I doing wrong? Please advise

@Zulfikar – you probably don’t have PHP5. Try one of the earlier versions of TWP Auctions.

First all many thanks for the prompt response and secondly you are right, my server was running on PHP4. Switched to PHP5 and all is working great.

Much obliged for your help and for this awesome plugin.
Cheers! :)

Thanks so much for this great script! However, the blank onmouseover function only seems to work with IE, not Firefox. Also, It would be nice if we could define a minimum price, in case we don’t want to display the lower priced items, and a minimum number of bids, in case we only want to display items people are bidding on. Thanks again for this. I can’t believe it’s free! :-)

This is seriously a sweet find! I’m not a huge fan of BANS and now I just found a free alternative thanks!

I figured out how to get more than 10 items to display per page by adding &ipg=25 to the end of the RSS Feed 25 items per page I assume 10 50 ect will work. I am just now trying to figure out if I can pull more than 1 keyword

that’s very coool

Thanks a lot

Thanks for the info. I’m an ebay affiliate and I think this will be perfect, thanks!

This is an awesome script you have on your hands! :)

I have a minor issue that I wanted to know if you can provide some assistance on:

Is there anyway to use css styling instead of using tables to display products? I’ve decorated my tables via css, but it is really limited and I’ve tried numerous times to edit the source .php in order to play around with the code and see if I can use css instead, however, I haven’t had much success.

Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated! :)

Thanks in Advance,
Yolanda

This is awesome. You rock. Now I am going to add this to my blog as well.

i cannot get this to work (v2.2) installed the extras i need for it, tested that php script will run (it does!) and as soon as i add the script, it makes the rest of the page blank! Any ideas?

Sorry was being stupid and only uploaded one file not both!

Does this pull from ebay rss or the epn rrs?

Thanks for this great tool!

What is the default sorting on the listings?

Is there a way to Sort the eBay listings by Highest or Lowest price? Can those parameters be added into the script?

@ Dave, the default sort order is the same as a standard eBay “Advanced search”, which I think lists items in order of when the auction ends.
If you really want to change the sort order you can edit the twpauctions.php file and play with the values in the $url variable. Do a Google search for “eBay RSS querystring/variable definitions”. The first result will at least get you started.

Thank you for the tip Kerosene. I was able to add the sorting variables right into twpauctions.php file and it worked great!

Well, it works, but i get just a few items and when i click on a title i don’t get right page on ebay…
What am i doing wrong?

this is ma settings:
$epn_campaign_id = “000000″;
$keyword = “ibanez bass”;

@ Websitemaker, you need to enter your ePN campaign ID.
Or at least something other than 000000.

hmmm … i dont have any EPN compain ID … how/where can i get it ?

Sign into EPN, then click Campaigns on the yellow nav bar.

First test of the script really works. Magic.

so, if I’m not the part of eBay Partner Network than i cant use this script ?

@ Websitemaker, “TWP Auctions is a free script to display eBay Partner Network affiliate auctions”.
You CAN use the script without being an affiliate, although I don’t know why you’d want to. Just enter 123456 as the campaign ID (or anything other than 000000). If you’re going to use TWP Auctions, then you may as well get an ePN account and make some money while you’re at it :)

I heard it is hard to get into eBay Partner Network…
I’m working on my new site http://www.ibanez-bass-guitar.com
Is it possible to get in with the website like this?

That site should be good enough. Add some more content, and make sure you don’t have any “coming soon” pages, etc.

Hello

Interesting little script :)

I would like to know please could you tell me how much system or server recorses this uses on a heavy traffic site? I am planing to use this on a number of heavy traffic sites and I am on paid shared hosting. Will it jepodize my hosting package due to heavy load on there servers?

Thanks in advance.

@ Edward, Most of the work is done by eBay’s servers (searching, sorting, image serving etc). I use a slightly modified version on my own sites, and have never had an issue.

Hello

I would like to know please would it be possible to paginate or use pagination with the results that twp auctions provide.

For example if I wanted to have 20 results but only show 5 on a page can I split those results into 4 sections with page numbers like 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 etc?

Thanks in advance.
Edward

@ Edward, no, not out of the box. If you want to mess around with the feed url in the script and some PHP you CAN do it, but I’m not sure why you’d want to :)

Is this still compatible with the new format for eBay auctions?

@ Eloise … TWPAuctions uses eBay’s RSS feed – so as long as the full page example is still working (which it is), then it should work fine on your site too.

The new feed url is different, it changed April 18.
It was announded in the blog.

http://www.ebaypartnernetworkblog.com/en/2011/03/new-rss-feed-generator-available-soon/

After June 30, the old RSS feed is not supported. I tried to show where it was announced on the eBay Blog, and show that the new RSS feed format is different for the old.

I know this is a FREE eBay affiliate script. But since its not supported after June 30 I just wanted to find out if the new format going to be intergrated into the feed. Or if I need to find another option.

I didn’t realize they were threatening to kill the existing feed. I’ll have a good look at the new feed in the next couple of days and see what’s what.

TWPAuctions WILL BE UPDATED before June 30th.
Stay tuned :)

… and if I don’t post an update in a week or so, feel free to give me a reminder.

UPDATED VERSION 3.1 beta AVAILABLE NOW.
If anyone wants to try it, please send me an email (click the Contact link at the very top of this page).

UPDATE! 3.1 ready to roll :)

Thanks, Kerosene!!! :)

Does hiding the ebay rover URL in the end user browser’s status bar violate EPN’s Terms of Services?

Thanks in advance

@ Patrishia, probably not.
I’m totally rewriting the script from the ground up to work with eBay’s new RSS feed. I’ll double check the terms while I’m at it.

I’m wanting to use your script on my site and have noticed you are doing a re-write. Do you have an ETA for its release? and if I install the Ver 3.1 will I be able to update it or will I have to completely replace it?
Thanks…

@ Adam, 2 weeks, 3 at the most – “mid November” sometime. Probably better to wait for the new version, as I’m not sure how backwards compatible it will be. Nice site btw :)

Hi there
Awesome plugin. This is PERFECT for our needs… Looking forward to the new release. Can we get on a mailing list?

Hows progress…yes, developers don’t like to be nagged I know but just wondering if I should start looking at other options or just hang in there just a bit longer? Hope it’s all going well.
Thanks…

I’ll have it done by mid November – What year are we talking??!! lol

Sorry guys, I’ve been busy with other things. I WILL get it done in the next couple of weeks! “Mid January” :)

P.S … If anyone has any feature requests for the new version, please let me know. There’s also a thread on DP here: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=743947