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Digital Solitude · 08-03-2015 3:39pm

Fluffy88 · 08-03-2015 3:42pm

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Using the geizhals.de discount site is whats messing it up! Hadn't considered that! Thanks anyways Fluffy

No problem

I'll see if I can get it working with geizhals.de too

Fluffy88 · 08-03-2015 4:02pm

Seems to be working for me even after putting it through http://geizhals.de/
Maybe I'm doing it differently though,

Copy URL for item in my basket
Search for the URL on geizhals.de
Select the product
Scroll down to the HWVS link
Click it

After that, the item in my basket is now at the lower (or sometimes higher

) price. However, the basket is no different and the script works exactly the same for me.
Are you doing something different that causes the basket to be rendered differently?

Digital Solitude · 08-03-2015 4:13pm

That's exactly what I was doing

Works fine for me in Firefox actually

Fluffy88 · 08-03-2015 4:39pm

Digital Solitude wrote: »

That's exactly what I was doing

Works fine for me in Firefox actually

I tried it in Chrome too and it worked. These are the kinds of issues that are really annoying :mad:

I actually started some work on a script to automatically do the price reducing thing, but I don't think it's possible to automate the entire thing so I stopped. You can find the script on Github too https://github.com/fluffy88/Basket-Parser/blob/master/hwvs_price_reducer.js. Right now all it does is open a new tab with the search page on http://geizhals.de/ for each item in your basket. It takes a little bit of the work out of it, but it's still mostly manual.

Slutmonkey57b · 12-03-2015 10:18pm

I'm probably being thick here but pasting the script into a bookmark in FF 36 doesn't seem to work at all. FF puts a bunch of %20's in it which might have an effect?

I click the bookmark, but there are no results. I've gone through this thread and the github wiki, am I missing something?

Edit: randomly deleting a few spaces here and there in the bookmark, even though FF recreated them as %20, makes it work...

Fluffy88 · 13-03-2015 10:20am

Slutmonkey57b wrote: »

I'm probably being thick here but pasting the script into a bookmark in FF 36 doesn't seem to work at all. FF puts a bunch of %20's in it which might have an effect?

I click the bookmark, but there are no results. I've gone through this thread and the github wiki, am I missing something?

Edit: randomly deleting a few spaces here and there in the bookmark, even though FF recreated them as %20, makes it work...

Firefox does that, don't make a difference to the script at all.

%20 is the URL encoding for a space, so Firefox interprets the script exactly the same whether the script uses spaces or %20.

Funny that it didn't work initially. Maybe you happened to fix something else while replacing some of the %20's. If you get the chance, try copying the script from GitHub again and see does it work this time.

Slutmonkey57b · 13-03-2015 3:08pm

Tried all the variations before it worked, I think! Even copying from github appeared to insert extra text at the end of the script. No idea why it eventually decided to work.

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