elite deal seaker is closed

[LarryFlew]

Appears that one of my favorites has given up the fight.

[FJ540]

Never even heard of it. Was this a store?

[Hoot]

Never even heard of it. Was this a store?

That's too bad but every time I tried to use it to find a good deal, it never did me as well as beating the Google bush.
It was a meta search engine for different firearms related forum "Market Place" type listings. Fortunately, Ammo Seek is still alive and well.

Hoot

[river_boater]

That's too bad. I used it to find watch deals. I even bought one from the site owner.

[Hoot]

That's too bad. I used it to find watch deals. I even bought one from the site owner.

You're kidding? I didn't realize you could search other markets besides firearms. I still have the bookmark in my Guns/Sources/ folder and yeah, it's a "404" now.

Hoot

[river_boater]

That's too bad. I used it to find watch deals. I even bought one from the site owner.

You're kidding? I didn't realize you could search other markets besides firearms. I still have the bookmark in my Guns/Sources/ folder and yeah, it's a "404" now.

Hoot

He had it set up to crawl watch forums, paintball forums, gun forums, aquarium forums, car and computer forums, and some others I can't remember.

He posted the source for the site, maybe somebody will resurrect it.

[northernbird]

He posted the source for the site, maybe somebody will resurrect it.

Anyone happen to have that source?

[Evad]

http://www.elitedealseeker.com/eds.tar.gz

[jspace]

Ew, Perl.
I could give it a go though. Just need some persuasion in the form of a 6 pack

[XDM45]

Ew, Perl.
I could give it a go though. Just need some persuasion in the form of a 6 pack

Port it over (if possible, and if not, rewrite it) to Ruby On Rails. (Ruby = Language and Rails = Framework). I'm not a programmer or developer, but even I know Perl sucks. There are MUCH better languages these days than Perl.

[jspace]

Yeah, I don't know Perl (or Ruby, Python, PHP, or anything really) so porting it would be difficult.
What's really hard is that the code is poorly (mainly not at all) commented and the database schema isn't defined. The readme says this:

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mysql> describe eds_links;
+----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field    | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| url      | varchar(256) | NO   | PRI |         |       |
| title    | varchar(128) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| sitename | varchar(128) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| category | varchar(32)  | YES  | MUL | NULL    |       |
| time     | int(11)      | YES  | MUL | NULL    |       |
+----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Which doesn't help, because I have no idea what category & time are keyed to. I did learn that the correct command to use is

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SHOW CREATE TABLE <table>;

So that's cool.

For those who don't speak nerd & tldr;
It's hard because something breaks & has to be figgered out. Don't hold your breath for anyone to bring this back.

[XDM45]

Yeah, I don't know Perl (or Ruby, Python, PHP, or anything really) so porting it would be difficult.
What's really hard is that the code is poorly (mainly not at all) commented and the database schema isn't defined. The readme says this:

Code: Select all

mysql> describe eds_links;
+----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field    | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| url      | varchar(256) | NO   | PRI |         |       |
| title    | varchar(128) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| sitename | varchar(128) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| category | varchar(32)  | YES  | MUL | NULL    |       |
| time     | int(11)      | YES  | MUL | NULL    |       |
+----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Which doesn't help, because I have no idea what category & time are keyed to. I did learn that the correct command to use is

Code: Select all

SHOW CREATE TABLE <table>;

So that's cool.

For those who don't speak nerd & tldr;
It's hard because something breaks & has to be figgered out. Don't hold your breath for anyone to bring this back.

Ouch. That IS ugly. I see what you mean. Looks like a total re-write is needed in a new language. If you're interested, check out one of the support channels on the freenode IRC network. /join #perl and start there I guess. There's also a Rub channel, many actually.

[jspace]

Well, I need to eat my words. It basically runs as-is. Still don't know what the "official" schema is, but nothing seems broken. I also don't have the spider thing running automatically.

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CREATE TABLE `eds_links` (
  `url` varchar(256) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL,
  `title` varchar(128) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL,
  `sitename` varchar(128) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL,
  `category` varchar(32) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL,
  `time` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`url`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin;


Also, it looks like someone has already made a better version. http://elitedealseeker.blogspot.com/2011/01/another-copycat-site.html
Enough thread drift for now.

[SamM]

Wish I had time to do this. I could rewrite it with my eyes closed but I'm in the middle of so many projects right now I'd never get it done. If anyone wants to tackle it and has questions or needs help let me know, I've been a programmer for 30 years and have experience in a couple dozen languages. If I can find 10 minutes I'll grab that source tree and take a look at it, really shouldn't be a difficult app to build.

[LarryFlew]

Also, it looks like someone has already made a better version. http://elitedealseeker.blogspot.com/2011/01/another-copycat-site.html

Too bad they didn't do the guns and other items, just the watch section.