ebayapi2.py

import json
import datetime
from ebaysdk.finding import Connection as finding # install with pip
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # install with pip
from ebayapi import ebayapi # My API key

def get_kw():
	f = open ("ebay_search.txt", "r")
	lines = f.readlines()
	Keywords = lines
	return Keywords

def get_items(Keywords):
	api = finding(appid = ebayapi, siteid='EBAY-GB', config_file=None) # change country with 'siteid='
	api_request = { 'keywords': Keywords, 'outputSelector' : 'SellerInfo'}
	response = api.execute('findItemsByKeywords', api_request)
	soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'lxml')
	items = soup.find_all('item')
	return items

def res_print(items):
    for item in items:
        cat = item.categoryname.string.lower()
        title = item.title.string.lower().strip()
        price = int(round(float(item.currentprice.string)))
        url = item.viewitemurl.string.lower()
        seller = item.sellerusername.text.lower()
        listingtype = item.listingtype.string.lower()

        print(cat)
        print("\n")
        print(title)
        print()
        print(price)
        print()
        print(url)
        print()
        print(seller)
        print("*" * 20)

today = str(datetime.date.today())
ebay_results = 'ebay_results-'+today+'.json'

##def res_text(items):
##    with open(ebay_results, "a") as f:
##        for item in items:
##            cat = item.categoryname.string.lower()
##            title = item.title.string.lower().strip()
##            price = int(round(float(item.currentprice.string)))
##            url = item.viewitemurl.string.lower()
##            seller = item.sellerusername.text.lower()
##            title = item.title.string.lower().strip()
##            f.write(title)
##            f.write(" £")
##            f.write(str(price))
##            f.write(url)
##            f.write(" ")
##            f.write(seller)
##            f.write(" ")
##            f.write("*" * 20)
##            f.write("\n")

def wr_json(items):
    tdat = {}
    idat = {}
    with open(ebay_results, "a+") as json_file:
        for item in items:
            idat["cat"] = item.categoryname.string.lower()
            idat["title"] = item.title.string.lower().strip()
            idat["price"] = int(round(float(item.currentprice.string)))
            idat["url"] = item.viewitemurl.string.lower()
            idat["seller"] = item.sellerusername.text.lower()
            idat["title"] = item.title.string.lower().strip()
            tdat.update(idat)
            json.dump(tdat, json_file)
            json_file.write('\n')

def read_json():
    with open(ebay_results) as json_file:
        data = json_file.read()
    print(data)

####################### main ##########################

Keywords = get_kw() # text file in same dir - one search term per line

for i in range(len(Keywords)):
    x = get_items(Keywords[i])
    wr_json(x)

read_json() # appends at moment, may make new one, with date/time in filename.