Product price and stock availability script?

[dmarks83]

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Hi there guys,

My name is Daniel Marks and I am starting a little affiliate venture so thought i'd drop by and pick your brains. I know enough about web design to get by but one thing I am struggling with is how to pull prices and stock availability from a certain website, ie the hut, zavvi, etc. I dont wan't to have to go into the sites every day and update prices and stock availability. I want to achieve something like this site Nintendo Black Wii £144.99 ? Cheapest Prices | Wii Black In Stock and on there the guy dynamically checks weather the product is available and how much it is.

I would ask him but i'm sure he won't want to give his secrets away. If you can help I would be very appreciative. I have tried searching on here but no joy I may just be searching for the wrong search string.

Kind Regards in advance

Daniel

[Richard101]

treat yourself to price tapestry or try ecu content units

[Paul Smith]

Merchants useually provide a product feed which contains the price as part of it, along with title / link / description / etc of all their products.

Probably the easiest way of keeping a price up to date would be to pull the info from the feed.

[dmarks83]

Probably the easiest way of keeping a price up to date would be to pull the info from the feed.

Hi Paul,

Yes I notice the feeds on buy.at would it be easy to "pull the info" from them feeds? Do you think it would be a php script that is needed to pull the info?

treat yourself to price tapestry or try ecu content units

Looks good I may have to read more into that... Could easy content units do what I need?

Thanks for the reply
Danny

[accelerator]

Looks good I may have to read more into that... Could easy content units do what I need?

Yes they could ... ECU is a popular solution, although I believe they take a small percentage in commission.

Rgds

[RezaBadel]

Hi Daniel,

Here is a link to a buy.at product feed parsing guide document: http://files.perfiliate.com/solution...GuideFeb09.pdf

The specific technology you use is up to you, however a combination of PHP for the parsing and MySQL DB for the data storage would work fine

Although this is dependant on the data you require being made available by the merchant in each individual product feed.

If you have any queries please let me know, my email is reza.badel@corp.aol.com

Kind regards,

Reza
Solutions Engineer
buy.at

[dmarks83]

Hi Daniel,

Here is a link to a buy.at product feed parsing guide document: http://files.perfiliate.com/solution...GuideFeb09.pdf

The specific technology you use is up to you, however a combination of PHP for the parsing and MySQL DB for the data storage would work fine

Although this is dependant on the data you require being made available by the merchant in each individual product feed.

If you have any queries please let me know, my email is reza.badel@corp.aol.com

Kind regards,

Reza
Solutions Engineer
buy.at

Excellent i'll have a read over that this afternoon. Sure i'll be in touch so thanks for the email