Visual eBay Auction Search

[chicago_blogger]

BidSwish is new a visual search interface for eBay auctions built entirely with OpenLaszlo. It is designed to be very simple -- no complex search options, no ranking of results, etc. -- just a simple auction title search that displays the matching auctions in an animated collage-style or grid layout. Double-clicking an image tile goes directly to the eBay listing. Results are shown 20 at a time.

This is hosted on a regular Tomcat JSP site. It doesn't require OpenLaszlo server hosting. All communication with the eBay Developer API is done using a JSP dataset.

OpenLaszlo is a great tool for this!

http://www.BidSwish.com

[chicago_blogger]

Made a few bug fixes recently. Better special character handling, less clipping during hover over an auction tile, better currency display, and better reporting of fixed-price listings.

Found it a bit difficult to figure out the 2-decimal-place numeric formatting at first... I did finally use lz.text formatToString(), which works great.

[kmeixner]

I like it, very simple, but very imaginative the way it spreads out the items in windows to browse through.

Kevin

[chicago_blogger]

Working on refining the search dialog a bit. I don't want to add much complexity, but having some basic search options will be much more useful. I've added 2 fundamental types: one for qualifying fixed-price listings, auction listings, or both; the other for ordering results (by price, bid count, auction end time, etc.).

I've posted a beta version at http://www.BidSwish.com. Still working out a few of the issues here :-)