2010/1/5 Jochen Daum <[email protected]>: >>> A customer has requested that I integrate his Magento site into >>> pricespy.co.nz - Pricespy requires a data feed which is a fairly >>> ordinary looking text file. >>> >>> I'm sure this isn't terribly difficult to create, but first does anyone >>> have an existing extension or code snippet for doing this? > > [OT]: we were chuckling this afternoon how pricespy has gone from > screen scraping to telling people they need to provide a feed. Great > example of how the web changes things.
They did a "soft" relaunch towards the end of last year. I happened to be trying to use the site right when they changed over and got quite a shock to see the nice new design and functionality. It's now owned by a Swedish company so appears to have been bought out, because I'm fairly certain it was previously owned by a New Zealander and I think he may have done everything himself. I think given the prominence of Pricespy they're able to now demand a feed rather than bothering with screen scraping, but I think if Joe Bloggs went along and started demanding feeds from people with their start up website they'd be told to sod off :) Mind you, now that Pricespy is getting sites to supply a feed I don't see any reason that site shouldn't then make their site available to another aggregator, unless of course Pricespy has some agreement with them that they don't. -- Chris Hope The Electric Toolbox Ltd Email: [email protected] Web: www.electrictoolbox.com Phone: +64 9 522 9531 Mobile: +64 21 866 529 -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
