Scala Client for Shopping Services
This client currently adds sniper capabilities (bidding right before the auction ends instead of exposing your bid early) for shopping services that do not provide sniping functionality.
A possible enhancement is to watch the price of a store (not auction) item and auto-buy below a threshold. One could also extend eBay by adding the ability to bid conditionally, with more features than you would find in a typical sniper service. Eventually this will evolve into a server-client architecture.
I am writing this client so that I can snipe auctions using the Remambo deputy service (to buy from Yahoo! Japan; nobody uses eBay in Japan), which differs from other deputy services by offering upfront charges, a two month storage period (twice as long as usual), and allowing you to bid up to 20x your deposit (most allow 1x deposit).
If you would like to register, you can use my affiliate link :)
https://www.remambo.jp/?auc7531
Clients
###eBay APIs in "eBay developers program" do not provide bidding functionality, so I reverse-engineered the website's REST API.
###Remambo (for Yahoo! Japan Auctions, Yahoo! Japan Shopping, and Rakuten) Reverse-engineered REST API.
Usage
Examples are available in the main classes at the scala root directory. These can be run from sbt.
Implementation Details
Http requests execute asynchronously using Futures and the Spray framework.
Clients are composed of mixin traits.
Requests are pushed through pipelines and the response is mapped to results.