Subaru Baja eBay VIN database ...

jaxed · Post by **jaxed** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:06 pm

I have been doing this on my Corvair site for a year now.. so I thought I'd bring it to here... Basically, every night I run a process that scrapes eBay for all the Subaru Baja Passenger Vehicle auctions, and then stores the results (and a picture) of the Bajas being auctioned. The benefit of this is that it effectively keeps track of all the Baja auctions on eBay for future reference. Not sure if you will find it useful, but here it is ...

http://baja.jaxed.com/cgi-bin/pv.cgi

Tell me what you think. You can also check out my Corvair version here (it has a lot more data):

http://www.corvairproject.com/cgi-bin/pv.cgi

cliffhanger · Post by **cliffhanger** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:35 pm

hey, that's pretty cool! did you write the program on your own? -I dont know what i would use the info for, but im sure it will be helpful to someone

mbaksic · Post by **mbaksic** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:20 pm

Thats pretty neat, jaXed. I don't know what we could use it for now, but looking up the history of one latter would be easier with all that info. Mike

jaxed · Post by **jaxed** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:38 am

mbaksic wrote:Thats pretty neat, jaXed. I don't know what we could use it for now, but looking up the history of one latter would be easier with all that info. Mike

It does seem more useful for classic cars at this time, but I figure there is no time like the present to start! Maybe it will come into use for somebody someday.

mbaksic · Post by **mbaksic** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:15 pm

I agree, get the info while it is available, before it gets scattered and lost out there. Besides, the way SOA is doing its worst with the Baja, it will be a classic soon. Mike