I need a script to login to eBay using Perl/LWP/HTTP::Cookies and
return the email addresses of the high bidders on my auctions.

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Clarification of Question by dirthurts-ga on 25 Jun 2002 02:08 PDT

ok, how about this:  

Why am I getting an error from eBay that my browser doesn't accept
cookies when I use this script?
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#!/usr/bin/perl

use LWP; 
use HTTP::Request::Common; 
use HTTP::Cookies; 
 
$userid	=	''; 
$pass	=	''; 

$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; 
$ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new); 

$req=$ua->request(POST 'http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll', 
	[
	'MfcISAPICommand'	=>	'SignInWelcome',
	'siteid'			=>	0, 
	'co_partnerId'		=>	2,
	'UsingSSL'			=>	0,
	'ru'				=>	'',
	'pp'				=> 	'',
	'pa1'				=>	'',
	'pa2'				=>	'',
	'pa3'				=>	'',
	'i1'				=>	-1,
	'pageType'			=>	559,
	'userid'			=>	$userid,
	'pass'				=>	$pass,
	]);

print $req->content;

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Clarification of Question by dirthurts-ga on 25 Jun 2002 03:14 PDT

ahh... got it working!  
simply added the line:

$req=$ua->request(GET
'http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn');

before the POST.  Looks like eBay sets a session cookie on that page,
then checks for it when I do the post.  Awesome!

Here is the complete script, not too spiffy, all it does is log
in...but it is a start!
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#!/usr/bin/perl

use LWP; 
use HTTP::Request::Common; 
use HTTP::Cookies; 
 
$userid	=	''; 
$pass	=	''; 
 
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; 
$ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new(file=>'lwp-cookies',autosave=>1));

$req=$ua->request(GET
'http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn');

$req=$ua->request(POST 'http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll', 
	[
	'MfcISAPICommand'	=>	'SignInWelcome',
	'siteid'			=>	0, 
	'co_partnerId'		=>	2,
	'UsingSSL'			=>	0,
	'ru'				=>	'',
	'pp'				=> 	'',
	'pa1'				=>	'',
	'pa2'				=>	'',
	'pa3'				=>	'',
	'i1'				=>	-1,
	'pageType'			=>	559,
	'userid'			=>	$userid,
	'pass'				=>	$pass,
	]);

print $req->content;

I can write one, but $10 is not going to covert time spent. :-)

I think you have to raise your price.
If you don't want to and you want to code the bot yourself, you can I
answered a question explaining how to write webbots:
[ https://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=28442 ]