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first, i cringe everytime i hear someone say 'scrape' when referencing my plugin. auction2post uses the eBay API which is specifically designed to assist in these types of requests.
essentially your blog is saying to eBay: "salutations good sir! pardon the intrusion but might i inquire about a search query of which you would be so kind as to return a result set specific to the aforementioned request?"
and eBay replies: "my good man for that is what i am here for, to assist you in your referential needs, ergo, it is no intrusion at all!"
for the record, i have nothing against scrapers and how you use them is your business - but you do leave the scraped site saying: "i say, old bean, i must express my astonishment! were you really visiting my site or was it merely a clever ruse?!" (okay, this was simply for the lulz)
at affsum east i talked directly with ePN about the plugin and they said that it is an acceptable use of the eBay Developers program and there is no issue using it w/ ePN (assuming you follow the ePN TOS with it).
now, as far as content generation - yes you can edit the post templates in auction2post very easily and include direct links or other plugin tags that can execute queries using the API of other networks (Amazon API as w/ Machine Tags above). However, the TOS of eBay developer says that you need to clearly distinguish the eBay listings from any others. Hello, <hr>.
the plugin automatically removes expired auction posts. however, if a buy it now happens, then your post is live and linking to the auction (which hasn't expired) but you site visitor will not be able to buy the item. the cookie has been set though - so if they buy anything else, you will earn a commission and eBay by default shows related items on expired auctions. in a future version i'll add the ability to check to see if an auction has ended via buy it now and prune it if that option is selected.
for the record - the PM wasn't to buy my plugin but rather to post boobs when using the boobs icon. that's me giving back, yo.
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