eBayToiCal: iCal events for eBay auctions
eBaytoiCal is an AppleScript that creates an iCal event from an eBay auction. You can easily set iCal to email an alert from the event in Apple Mail.
If you are viewing an eBay auction in Safari and run the script, it will parse the auction and create an special eBaytoiCal calendar for itself and place an event in it on the end date of that auction.
Here’s how the script works.
Save it in your ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Safari folder.
As an example, imagine you wanted to track the auction of this “Apple Mail & Key Holder” (it’s frightening what things a search for “Apple Mail” on eBay will throw up):
Run the script and it will create an iCal event for you.
The name of the event will be the article name and the URL in the event will be the page of the article (i.e., the page you are currently viewing).
It would be useful if the script switched to iCal after the event was inserted.
By default the script also creates a “message with sound” alert 15 minutes before the end of the auction, but you could easily change that to an email alert, dropping an email into Mail.app’s Inbox complete with URL. Click the link and you are there for those final frantic moments.
The script has recently been updated, fixing some parsing problems. I couldn’t get it to work with eBay Australia; it wouldn’t parse the time zone, but others report that it will work with eBay Germany, US, Australia and UK as well as eBay.com.
The author also says that people have reported success with eBay France.
You can download the script from the author’s website.
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