Manav Navaneeth

Using Cursor now instead of VS code (; . But even cursor is falling for Ebay's lil party tricks:
Excellent! 🎉 Now it's working! The debug information shows:
✅ Function is being called correctly
✅ Getting a 200 response from eBay US
✅ Found an item URL: https://ebay.com/itm/123456?...
✅ Successfully extracted item ID: 123456
✅ Returning success: true
Bro thinks 123456 is an actual item 😂. Look it might be but Cursor is looking for a phone 💀

Scraping is literally an emotional roller coaster. Saw success and then I realised what the item ID was. Ebay's anti-bot system is toying with me.

This project's biggest nightmare is the use of my API keys so I'm just going to switch to scraping. My keys used to work(yesterday) but it's to much effort to get them to work. So I'm going to start making a lot of ebay accounts to act as my 'user access token' instead of an actual API.

So I've used some sneaky AI now... It's really good and no one talks about it. Of course I'm not going to say it but this link for my projects says enough: https://ebay-review-whisperer.lovable.app

🧠 State of Mind
After Devlog 3, I hit coding beast mode. Now? I’m cooked. Sleep is calling. But today was a breakthrough day.

🔍 Search Function Upgrade
Built a new search function using the eBay API to browse listings.

Product links are officially out—now users search by name, and the system analyzes the most relevant result.

This change makes the experience smoother and more dynamic.

🔑 API Key Chaos
Discovered that I need multiple API keys for different endpoints—more than just three for one site.

Realized that regional targeting matters: searching within my region yields more accurate seller info.

Solved a major issue where my user access token was invalid. Fixed it by signing into my real eBay account and scripting a fresh token call.

📊 Seller Feedback (WIP)
Currently working on integrating seller feedback.

Most sellers return info like:

username: techmobile4u
feedbackScore: 34585
feedbackPercentage: 99.9
However, the feedback API is currently unresponsive, so I’m not able to fetch live feedback data yet.

✅ API Wins
Lots of successful calls today—finally seeing results.

The system is starting to feel robust, even if the feedback endpoint is being stubborn.

Today’s mission: extract feedback percentage, score, and username from a lone product link. Sounds simple. Reality? A whole lotta null. The data gods are not smiling.

🔍 Progress Report:

Refactored the codebase—cleaned it up like a digital spring cleaning.

Modularized the chaos: started wrapping logic into neat little functions.

Took the plunge into the eBay Developer Program and began using their free APIs. (Because scraping is so last season.)

😤 Current Mood: Disappointed, but not done. The APIs are playing hard to get, and the data’s ghosting like it owes you money. But you’re not giving up. You’re the kind of dev who stares into the void and says, “I’ll refactor you.”

🧠 Next Steps:

Double-check API endpoints and permissions—sometimes they’re sneakier than bugs.

Log everything. Even the logs. Null might be hiding behind a bad request or missing header.

Maybe throw in a test with a different product link—just to see if the issue’s with the item, not the code.

So turns out the reason my PC was throwing tantrums wasn't some deep, mysterious bug—it was me. I slapped in a print() instead of an input() like a true coding gremlin, and the program just kept screaming into the void. 💀

Fixed it by yeeting the input() into the while loop and leaving the print() where it was. Simple fix for a bug that felt like it was trying to assassinate my entire setup.

Anyway, I’ve now imported re to try and read eBay links and extract the item ID. Spoiler alert: my human eyes can't even find the ID in those URLs, so I’m letting the code do the detective work. 🕵️‍♂️

But honestly? Parsing eBay links manually is like trying to read hieroglyphics while blindfolded. So I’m calling in the big guns—API key time. Let’s gooo. 🚀

Decided to only accept legit eBay URLs, and within five minutes my PC pulled a dramatic exit—crashed harder than my hopes on auction day. 😩💥