@flwrcrt wrote:I copied your bookmarklet and pasted it in the URL of a new bookmark, and replaced ":" with ":" as directed. I can't seem to get this to work in either Firefox or Internet Explorer10, in the U.S. version of ebay. Did I do something wrong? The URL I have bookmarked is as follows - javascript:window.location.href=JSON.parse('"'+document.documentElement.textContent.match(new%20RegExp('"updateURL":"(.*?)"'))[1]+'&viewItem&rt=nc&print=all"')
Don't know if kurtrobaer (the bookmarklet poster) is around after 3 months, but I took a look at it. It does work if what you are trying to get to is the listing summary page that shows all the photos (but may skimp on some of the other listing details).
Here is what the bookmarklet should look like:
I went to a listing page for one of my recent purchases, and clicked the bookmarklet which yielded the summary version of the listing (the photo below is just the top portion of the screenshot):
Works fine in Firefox 3.6.24 (and should work fine in any version of Firefox). If you have gotten the copied and pasted bookmarklet looking exactly like what I showed above, but it still does nothing when clicked while you are viewing a listing page, try adding a semicolon after the last parenthesis at the very end of the bookmarklet (javascript is generally terminated by semicolons and your Firefox may be picky - mine doesn't care in this case.)
That summary page along with a print of the actual lisiting page should capture all the needed info for future generations (or tax auditors)
I'm working on trying to get decent printouts of actual listing pages, as I need them for my selling records, but it's low priority at the moment. eBay started embedding the description portion of the listing pages in a frame a while back which bollixes up printing (Firefox print only grabs beginning portion of frame content), and haven't figured out how to access the photos yet. IF I ever do come up with something it will likely require a Greasemonkey script (but might be doable as a bookmarklet)
PDFCreator permits collection of multiple docs to print to a single pdf file. My current workaround is to print the listing page to pdf in "Wait/Collect" mode, then right click on the description area in the listing and use the Firefox This Frame->Print frame feature to add the full description to the pdf print queue. Hit Ctrl-A to combine the 2, Ctrl-P to finalize the pdf print. (note that the summary page could also be added into the document the same way - I just don't add it in there since it comes up earlier in my print flow).
The result of the above kludge isn't a single pretty page, but all the info I need gets captured this way: full description, all the photos, and a view of the listing page details (price dates, buyer id, etc) The shipping&payments tab isn't there but could also be grabbed as another print added to the queue if it is also needed.
