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Argos Stock Checker - CheckArgos.com (Jul 15 - Preview of new site now avaialbe)
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Hi guys,
just a heads up to anyone using either my site or basqs mobile version: Argos have purged there clearance sections, that store specific search is gone completely ,so that's basq's clearance section and my "all Sections" rendered useless.
The section specific one (e.g. Video Games, Photography etc) on my site still works, but there is very little content in these sections on the Argos site at the moment, so obviously there is very little content on my site as a result.
Thanks to all who are using and posting up the screen shots, its a nice feeling randomly coming across one on my internet travels
For anyone interested, my next feature to implement is a text search. After that i will be spending some time on the looks side of things. The only other idea i would after that would be nicking basq notify me thing :P0 -
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Thiswitnessmenow wrote: »Really curious to what this said ... :P
Im sayin nottinThe clearance ............
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Don't think there is a mobile.checkargos.com?What am I doing wrong?
witnessmenow's website is http://www.checkargos.com, and my mobile website is http://www.basquille.net/argos0 -
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No worries!Cool, thanks for not pointing out I am an idiot
Might mention it to witnessmenow that I'd have no problem with him incorporating my mobile site onto a mobile subdomain of checkargos.com.
Might make it easier in the long run as he could redirect to that then on detection of a mobile device.0 -
I'll give you a shout later Basq. I would be interested in the subdomain but I'm not a massive fan of browser detection though
(there is an xkcd for everything )
While I'm here a may as well comment on a couple of other things:- Slaanesh's chrome extension is excellent, I use it all the time now!
- The blancherstown with the unknown status is actually closed
(i need to remove it) - My free hosting with digiweb is up in september (the sites first birthday ), I'll keep the site up for sure but i need to do some looking into what is available
- I still need to fix the clearance sections when they have too much stuff in them
- Im currently working on AN android app (not a checkargos one), once completed I will be moving onto a checkargos one.
And for the figures:
38K regular searches and 18k clearance searches since September0 -
Yep.. no worries.witnessmenow wrote: »I'll give you a shout later Basq. I would be interested in the subdomain but I'm not a massive fan of browser detection though
(there is an xkcd for everything )
I've come across that type of redirect that xkcd is referring to, and I despise it too.
Wasn't aware of that.. ta!witnessmenow wrote: »- The blancherstown with the unknown status is actually closed (i need to remove it)
The iOS app I've developed is very basic (and I'm planning to submit it to iTunes Connect for approval in the next day or two) - the reason for this is I'm worried Apple may reject it (due to scraping of the Argos site via webpages / requests without prior permission from Argos). Unlike my web app, I don't use your CheckArgos.com scripts - it's independent.witnessmenow wrote: »- Im currently working on AN android app (not a checkargos one), once completed I will be moving onto a checkargos one.
If they don't reject it, I'll branch it out and add more to it.
But with myself on the iOS app and you working on an Droid app, we should have it covered! 0 - The blancherstown with the unknown status is actually closed
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Hi all,
Just a quick heads-up to say the iOS app is now available!
Argos.ie Stock Checker
This app is in early days since I wasn't to roll out a basic version to make sure Apple approved it before rolling out some of the more advanced features such as:
- flagging out-of-stock items and a push notification if that out-of-stock item comes back in stock
- validation of product information as soon as catalogue number is entered (no need to click 'Search')
- recent searches (view recent searches by all users)
- popular searches (view popular searches by all users)
- and more!
This version will be released very shortly.
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For anyone interested I'm after uploading the source code of checkargos.com to github
I have done zero tidying up of the code so please excuse the mess! This was a one person project done in my spare time so it might be short of a few comments
Feel free to do what you want with it, if you use anything from it a acknowledgement would be nice, but not required
Any questions shoot me a pm! (I'm at the euros for the next couple of weeks so my response times might be slow )
Android app will also be on github when i start working on it0 -
Sorry for the zombie thread update, but i felt this was the best place to inform people.
I've renewed checkargos and am moving hosting providers. I am also going on holidays in a few hours and I havent got a chance to do the port!
A friend of mine is going to look after it, hopefully all will go well and there will be no downtime but there is a potential that there could be some hiccups.
For anyone interested in the numbers since September last year
Regular searches: 52k (1k a week, not too bad )
Clearance searches: 24k0 -
Nice one witnessmenow... best of luck with the move!
While we're referring to stats - my stats for the Argos Stock Checker (iOS) are as follows:
It's been in the Top 100 apps in 2 countries (UK & Ireland), and was the most downloaded app in the Reference section for Ireland at one stage. Happy enough with those figures considering it's only been online for 12 weeks.
The funny thing is 3,158 (almost half!) of those downloads were from the UK, so the next update is geared primarily at them, although there is something for ye too.
It's more or less done bar a bit of testing - but a busy work schedule, doing an online course in the evenings and little nixers here and there have prevented me from releasing it just yet. Hopefully it'll be out this time next month.0 -
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Firstly apologies if I'm over staying my welcome on BA by posting status updates here (please let me know if I am!)
I uploaded a new version of the site last night, please let me know if there is any issues.
The new version is just a code cleanup, hopefully from a user perspective nothing has changed other than the Blanch store that closed has been removed.
The main reason for this changes is I'm going to leverage the website for the android app. This isn't initially how I set out to do the app, but after a re-think there is a lot of advantages to doing this mainly:- Code Re-use - if Argos change their site i only need to make changes to the PHP
- Will be a lot lighter on Data usage
- Can keep better stats.
So in last nights update I have also created an entry point for the android app that returns Json objects based on the criteria passed (this is not complete yet)
If anybody is interested in leveraging this entry point for anything feel free to get in touch and we can discuss it (I'm not charging for it or anything like that )
Still hope to have something on the Play store this weekend, fingers crossed as I still need to do my least fave part UI 0 -
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And now we never need to visit the argos website again.
You still need to reserve stuff on their siteRobbingBandit wrote: »Hate to be that guy but any news on an update to checksmyths.com now that smyths have fecked up their own site, it is a cluster **** imo.
I haven't looked at it in a long while, they updated something that broke the stock checking, but it was being used so little I didn't figure out what it was. Check argos was doing in a couple of days what check Smyth's was doing in a month! I might take a look again. My spare time development is really split across too much stuff as it is. It might be something small though.fleet_admiral wrote: »It really is excellent, like another person said, you dont need to visit the argos site again. Id love it if I didnt have to set min/max pricesFresh Pots wrote: »+1 on getting rid of the requirement for min/max prices. Will be perfect then.
Yup the search doesn't need the min and Max.
Next thing I'd like to tackle is the user interface, while it is functional it's kinda plain and crappy
After that would be that atrocious android app of mine! I don't even use it myself! I got an email saying it was 109th app in shopping free, and all I could think is "what a category it must be!"0 -
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