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chamalscuro · AuctionSieve guru Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 118

Category searches are quitting at 50. They're dead. eBay's made some change. No way around it on my end.

Edit: I tried creating an old-style category search sieve ("from an eBay category"). That invariably quits at 50 as well.

nev · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 1:26 am Post subject:

Ok, I'll take a look
https://trello.com/b/cg7YsK0X/auctionsieve

chamalscuro · AuctionSieve guru Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 118

Great. Just joined Trello and subscribed.

Edit: You might want to put a sticky post at the top of the forums re: Trello, and a link. Archive some of the old stickies ("What I'm working on" etc)

nev · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 11:42 am Post subject:

Good idea

nev · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 12:36 pm Post subject:

Ok, new beta should fix it

chamalscuro · AuctionSieve guru Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 118

wickmesh · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:51 pm Post subject:

New Beta (2.7.1.1) seems good in this respect - I am getting many results back now that I had noticed had gone missing. Thanks Nev!

chamalscuro · AuctionSieve guru Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 118

The eBay squirrels have been busy again. There's a new variation of the "quit at 50" problem. Category searches are mostly failing, though after repeated attempts a category will begin pulling auctions. Once it starts working, it continues all the way to completion.

EDIT: Ran auctions this afternoon, and things seem to be back to normal.

chamalscuro · AuctionSieve guru Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 118

I guess last Wednesday was a warm-up for their mischief.

Category searches were completely dead this morning, and still are this evening. Repeated attempts don't help this time. It's just like the breakdown back in February.

nev · Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 12:23 am Post subject:

Ok, I'll have a look
https://trello.com/b/cg7YsK0X/auctionsieve

chamalscuro · AuctionSieve guru Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 118

merrillgi · AuctionSieve regular Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 16

This is happening to me too, on a permanent basis since May 11 or 12. I've tried everything - generating a new sieve in several different ways - no luck. One odd thing - of the 50 or fewer results I DO get, the auctions all seem to have a fairly short time to go - less than about 2 hours.

This is driving me nuts.

chamalscuro · AuctionSieve guru Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 118

merrillgi, bear with me a moment, but I have a workaround for this issue:

There are two ways to create a sieve. "by performing an eBay search" and "from an eBay category"

Don't use "from an eBay category" for your category searches, because you have no options. Instead use "by performing an eBay search". Then go into options, restrict the search to a category, and make the search term blank. Now you have a category search with choices.

I found that a category search with no search term is what's stopping at 50. Add a search term, and it goes on like normal.

So the solution is add a gibberish "Word to exclude" like "dxpjzr" and you're set.

nev · Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 3:15 pm Post subject:

New beta is out.
Let me know if it fixes it so I can push out a stable release to everyone.

wickmesh · Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 4:10 pm Post subject:

Just tried the new Beta... I can't say it's fixed it either way, sorry.

Put it this way, I don't see lots more results in my sieves since my previous search from earlier today... But then I can't say I've seen the issue the others have had - possibly my category searches all have exclude words!