Is there a way to bulk find / replace actual HTML strings?

[imapaqrat]

Is there a way to bulk find / replace actual HTML strings?

I've tried the bulk "EDIT; Item Description; Find / Replace"; but it doesn't work. It seems to be looking at the actual description text and not the HTML code.

eBay keeps changing the syntax of store search results, so all my HTML links for store searches are broken. (Probably over 5,000 Store search results in my listings)

Simple Search Example: Blazers

OLD BROKEN STORE SEARCH RESULT SYNTAX
http://stores.ebay.com/ImaPaqRat/_i.html?_nkw=blazers&submit=Search&_sid=2515071
The Red above is the broken search results that worked until eBay changed the syntax

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ssn=imapaqrat&stor...=blazers
The Green above is the new working search results. (Sorry eBay keeps changing the color to BLUE)

I need to be able to find the OLD RED HTML and replace it with the NEW GREEN HTML.

When I go into my listings and manually do the replacement it works fine. But when trying to use the Bulk Edit/Replace Description, nothing happens.

As mentioned above, I have over 5,000 store search result links in my listing, so it is way too time consuming to do it manually.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bruce "ImaPaqRat" Fisher

[imapaqrat]

Never Mind.  eBay completely change the  href HTML string, so you can't just replace the 1st part of the http: code.

Thanks for nothing eBay.  This is the 3rd time you have changed the store search results syntax in as many years.

FULL BROKEN <a href CODE (blazers)

<a href="http://stores.ebay.com/ImaPaqRat/_i.html?_nkw=blazers&amp ;submit=Search&amp;_sid=2515071" target="_blank">

FULL WORKING <a href CODE (blazers)

<a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&amp;iconV2Request=true&amp;_blrs=recall_filtering&amp;_ssn=imapaqrat&amp;store_cat=0&amp;store_name=imapaqrat&amp;_oac=1&amp;_nkw=blazers " target="_blank">

[imapaqrat]

As I mentioned before, eBay has changed the store search href syntax multiple times.

Not sure which of these came 1st, but they are both broken HTML code with this latest eBay store change

Simple Search: Jordan
<a href="https://www.ebay.com/str/imapaqrat?_bkw= Jordan" target="_blank"> [BROKEN]
<a href="http://stores.ebay.com/ImaPaqRat/_i.html?_nkw= Jordan&amp ;submit=Search&amp;_sid=2515071" target="_blank"> [BROKEN]

Current working

<a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&amp;iconV2Request=true&amp;_blrs=recall_filtering&amp;_ssn=imapaqrat&amp;store_cat=0&amp;store_name=imapaqrat&amp;_oac=1&amp;_nkw= Jordan" target="_blank">

The 1st time my search links broke, I spent 100s of hour fixing a lot of them, only to have the syntax change again.  That was when I gave up on changing links in existing listing and just made sure new listing worked.  Not a perfect solution, but I didn't have the bandwidth to manually fix the existing listings . . . Again.

Now, once again, 100% of my search links are broken.  Not to mention my personal docs that have my often used search hrefs code, so I could cut and paste my most used search syntax; like "Jordan, Pippen, Bulls, NBA, poster, spider-man"

[wastingtime101]

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@imapaqrat wrote:

Is there a way to bulk find / replace actual HTML strings?

I've tried the bulk "EDIT; Item Description; Find / Replace"; but it doesn't work. It seems to be looking at the actual description text and not the HTML code.

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In the bulk editor @imapaqrat when you edit the description and select "find text and replace it" you will see a check box just below the replace box that says "Match in HTML source code" - you have to check that box before you apply the changes.