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Comment on FreeNAS Users Rejoice! by sacii

sacii — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:13:16 +0000

But it does not work. I have yet to get Unetbootin to create a bootable usb stick that will install FreeNAS. Additionally, I have not found anyone else that has been successful in creating a bootable usb stick that will install FreeNAS. The problem seems to be that the install image will only look to a CD for boot information.

Comment on Newegg’s JSON API by Tim

Tim — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:17:00 +0000

Seriously. This is 2011. Put it as a Gist on github.com or something. There are about a million sites which let you post code. Even better make a real project and post it on github and not just as a gist.

Comment on Coping with a puny outbound bandwidth limit. by Spencer

Spencer — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:49:23 +0000

Well at least they have the decency to put such an effort with the cable thingy. I opt you stick to that than broadband, it would make you a lot more disappointed.

Comment on Newegg’s JSON API by Erol Akarsu

Erol Akarsu — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:16:12 +0000

I have zipped all java code as eclipse project but can not attach to here. Can you mail me so I can reply with attachment?

Thanks

Comment on Newegg’s JSON API by Trevor Senior

Trevor Senior — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:48:06 +0000

Thank you for this article – it’s perfect for what I need. I am writing a Java equivalent for use in my GWT project and so far it’s going well.

If I ever get the free time I’ll re-write it the Java equivalent separate from my program and link it here. Thanks again.

Comment on Newegg’s JSON API by Zach Lym

Zach Lym — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:01:06 +0000

I specifically need specs for previous gen motherboards. Even if NewEgg has deactivated a mobo, that doesn’t mean there aren’t fresh ones in someone else’s inventory.

I need to know the specific number of PCE-Express slots, which is very difficult to search for as there is no standard notation for the channels (even newegg is bad at this). However, I can query against the NewEgg DB, find all matching mobo’s and then do the same analysis you are doing but against used equipment. I also want to factor in CPU costs…

-Zach

Comment on Newegg’s JSON API by bemasher

bemasher — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:06:01 +0000

I haven’t noticed any. I imagine it doesn’t unless explicitly queried as this is just the json interface for the mobile application. No sense in showing the user items they can’t buy on the mobile app.

So far the largest query i’ve done was a little over 500 items and that’s retrieving 25 pages of items then specifications for each one.

I’m mostly using the results to create scoring functions for determining the best product within a price range for your needs. As it turns out this works very well for things like hard drives, SSD’s, system memory and flash memory.

Comment on Newegg’s JSON API by Zach Lym

Zach Lym — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:24:42 +0000

Does the catalog list deactivated items? Newegg also has XML sitemaps (broken down by category) that link to every product they have ever carried (SEO) -when you query a specific one it will show up.

Worried about hammering their servers and getting blocked. They do have an affiliate’s API, and I am thinking about a newegg price comparison service…

Comment on Newegg’s JSON API by bemasher

bemasher — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:46:07 +0000

Ah yes, something i’ve found very very useful for cleaning up the data you get from it is Google Refine. But i’m still much happier with this than i ever was with scraping html. At least the structure of this data doesn’t change to much as they update the site.

Comment on Newegg’s JSON API by bemasher

bemasher — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:43:10 +0000

Not a bad idea. I’ll have to do some more traffic sniffing to get all of the protocol down. I only really documented stuff for getting product info.