Gamecube game hunting on Ebay

[bekindpleaserewind]

I thought this open source program I wrote for myself would be useful to people who hunt for GC games on Ebay. In a nutshell, it automates monitoring the Ebay API for gaming related items you have configured it to monitor for.  It provides visual and audible notifications for new items matching your search criteria and gives you a significant advantage over manually monitoring the Ebay's webiste for new gamecube items.  It updates as often as every 60 seconds (depending on how many searches you have configured).  I published it on Github at https://github.com/bekindpleaserewind/gamefinder.  The newest release is at https://github.com/bekindpleaserewind/g ... r/releases.  I have it working on both Windows and Mac. Here is a screenshot to get an idea of what I'm talking about. If you have any questions, comments, etc. please let me know.

[emu_kidid]

Pretty cool, I'd made similar ones for local websites too, but mine post notifications to Slack/IM platforms.

[bekindpleaserewind]

It has been mentioned this may be useful as well for Facebook Marketplace. May look into APIs for that. I had this posting to an sms gateway but found it not as useful as having immediate access from a computer so added the local popup/audio notifications.

Slack is a good idea, I'll probably add that in the setup wizard / settings!

[bekindpleaserewind]

I went ahead and added Slack webhook support this morning. It is available to enable in the settings menu now on the latest release at https://github.com/bekindpleaserewind/g ... 1.1.0-beta.

[bekindpleaserewind]

Bugfix release https://github.com/bekindpleaserewind/g ... 1.1.1-beta

Also, I'm working on purchasing an EV code signing certificate so I can sign the binaries and get them trusted correctly on windows and mac. I will probably throw together a windows installer once that is done.

[bekindpleaserewind]

Updated Gamefinder to now include the ability to modify search criteria!

The most recent version, v1.1.2-beta is at https://github.com/bekindpleaserewind/g ... 1.1.2-beta

Binary for Windows 11 is available and source for Windows and Mac is also usable.

I also wanted to point out you can run OR, AND as well as NOT searches on eBay to target specific lots of games.  For example, if you wanted to search for "(chrono trigger OR contra iii) AND NOT Super Famicom AND NOT CIB" you could use the following as search criteria: ("chrono trigger","contra iii") -famicom -cib

Combine this method of searching into a single configured platform to limit how many API calls you utilize since the eBay API currently limits the finding API to 5000 requests a day.

Future roadmap includes updating to the newer RESTful API and ditching the Finding API.