It would be nice if it did keep and use the settings (same for regular search.)
I start searches either from existing ones locked in browser tabs, or from a bookmarks toolbar bookmarklet I crafted that has the defaults I want hardcoded in (US Only, ending soonest, 100 results per page, etc).
Here is the basic search bookmarklet I use. It just prompts for search terms, and constructs an eBay search with my preferred defaults hardcoded in:
javaXscript:(function(){
var%20ebayterms=prompt('Enter%20eBay%20Search%20Term(s)','');
document.location=%22http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_udhi=5000000&LH_PrefLoc=1
&_ipg=100&_udlo=0&_sop=1&_nkw=%22+ebayterms})()
remove the X in the above to use in a bookmarklet.
the _udhi=5000000 is there as a placeholder for high price cap on search because I do most of my searching in FF3.6.24 where some of the left navbar filters don't work when clicked - if I want to change it to a $100 price cap I edit the _udhi=5000000 in the URL in the browser to be _udhi=100 and reload the search. (hokey workaround because I want to use an old browser 🙂
It is also possible to make a different bookmarklet that switches from a regular search to advanced, and plugs the keywords in. Here I adapted the regular search bookmarklet to work with advanced search.
javaXscript:(function(){
var%20hrefloc=window.location.href;
var%20parmidx=hrefloc.indexOf('https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?');
if(parmidx==-1){var%20ebayterms=prompt('Enter%20eBay%20Search%20Term(s)','');
document.location='http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_udhi=5000000&LH_PrefLoc=1&_ipg=100
&_udlo=0&_sop=1&_dmd=1&_nkw='+ebayterms;}else{
var%20params=hrefloc.substr(parmidx+32);
if(params!=null)document.location='http://www.ebay.com/sch/ebayadvsearch?'+params;}
})();remove the X in the above to use in a bookmarklet
How it works.
To start a regular search with the coded in default filter settings, open a new blank tab, or use an existing one (but not an existing regular search page tab). Click the bookmarklet, it will prompt for your search keywords, and will open a regular eBay search using the hardcoded default filters and those keywords.
If you click the bookmarklet on a regular eBay search page (the one we just opened or an existing one, the bookmarklet will grab the search parameters from the URL for that regular search page, and open the advanced search page with those parameters and keywords. Tweak that advanced search the way you normally do, and it opens a regular search page again with the results.
Here is a partial list of parameters to help with setting up defaults for the bookmarklet (they need to very carefully be edited into the bookmarklet - additional parameters are always preceded buy a & separator. Some parameters have leading underscores and some do not. General for of the URL will be hXXps://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?parameter1¶meter2¶meter3....
and order of the parameters does'nt matter)
In search page URLs:
View (top right next to Sort)
_dmd=2 gallery view
_dmd=1 list view
_dmd=0 list view (doesn't work?)
not present list view
Item Location (left navbar)
LH_PrefLoc=0 default
LH_PrefLoc=1 US Only
LH_PrefLoc=2 Worldwide
PrefLoc=0 default
PrefLoc=1 US Only
PrefLoc=2 Worldwide
Include description (top under searchbar)
LH_TitleDesc=0 don't include
LH_TitleDesc=1 include
Price (left navbar)
_udlo=20 _udhi=50
Items per page
_ipg=10,50,100,200
Sort: (top right)
_sop=15 Price+Shipping: lowest first
_sop=16 Price+Shipping: highest first
_sop=10 Time: Newly listed
_sop=7 Distance: Nearest First
_sop=12 Best Match
_sop=1 Time: Ending soonest
If "Sold Listings" and "Complete Listings" are grayed out probably because
"Include Description" box is checked.
More can be found here: http://www.helios825.org/url-parameters.php
How to create a bookmarklet?
- Create a new bookmark on your browser bookmark toolbar (if you use one, otherwise can do it in bookmarks folder but harder to use that way).
- Copy and paste the code for the bookmarklet from above into the "location" field for the bookmarklet (be sure to remove the X from it - that's inserted to prevent the forum software from mangling the code)
- Name it something like SwAdvSrch.
- Save it.
- Use it to open new searches with defaults, or convert regular searches to advanced searches.
