How to do website searching from Android App

Question

How would I implement a web search in my app, that searches eBay for example, from a user input?

please try to be specific about what you want to ask. – Rohit Rawat Oct 28 '19 at 16:08 — Rohit Rawat, Oct 28 '19 at 16:08

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 28 '19 at 15:10

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Something like this:

Put an editText to capture user input
Figure out how the ebay URL works, (Eg. for Google, https://www.google.com/search?q=[Your-keyword-here] can get you to the search result of your keyword)
Load the URL in a webView

There you go!

Edit:

This might work for Ebay:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=[Your-keyword-here]

answered Oct 28 '19 at 15:10

Wilson Sim

yeah, that's what I was thinking too, seems like that's the easiest way. Would you know of any way of only showing afew select products from the list, instead of the entire webpage? – KSS Oct 28 '19 at 17:43
Maybe you can check out Ebay's developer API :D This might be what you are looking for: https://developer.ebay.com/api-docs/static/rest-request-components.html – Wilson Sim Oct 29 '19 at 11:19

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