#!/usr/bin/env python3 """ eBay Cast Iron Scanner - HTML Scraping Version Scans eBay for cast iron cookware deals using HTML parsing """ import requests import re from datetime import datetime from bs4 import BeautifulSoup def search_ebay_cast_iron(): """ Search eBay for cast iron items using HTML scraping Returns list of items found """ search_queries = [ "griswold skillet", "wagner cast iron", "cast iron skillet restoration", "vintage cast iron", "wapak skillet" ] items = [] headers = { 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8', 'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.5', } for query in search_queries: try: # Use eBay's search URL url = f"https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw={query.replace(' ', '+')}&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_rss=1" response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=15) if response.status_code == 200: # Try to parse RSS feed soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'lxml-xml') entries = soup.find_all('item') for entry in entries[:15]: try: title_elem = entry.find('title') link_elem = entry.find('link') price_elem = entry.find('price') if not title_elem or not link_elem: continue title = title_elem.text if title_elem else "" link = link_elem.text if link_elem else "" # Extract price from title or description price_text = price_elem.text if price_elem else title price_match = re.search(r'\$([\d,]+\.?\d*)', price_text) price = float(price_match.group(1).replace(',', '')) if price_match else 0 if title and link: items.append({ 'title': title.strip(), 'price': price, 'link': link, 'source': 'eBay', 'found_at': datetime.now().isoformat(), }) except Exception as e: continue # If RSS worked, break (don't need HTML fallback) if items: break except Exception as e: print(f"eBay RSS error for '{query}': {e}") # If RSS failed, try a different approach - mark for Selenium if not items: print("⚠️ eBay RSS not returning data - Selenium implementation needed") return items if __name__ == "__main__": print("🔍 Scanning eBay for cast iron deals...") items = search_ebay_cast_iron() print(f"Found {len(items)} items") for item in items[:5]: print(f" - {item['title'][:60]} - ${item['price']}")