AnandTech RealTime Price Engine RSS Feed BETA

[crimson117]

Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki
Today we are officially starting our Open Beta for the AnandTech RTPE RSS feed. Feel free to pretty much do whatever you want with it

http://labs.anandtech.com/rss.aspx (its about 200K)

Suggestions? Send them to me, kristopher@anandtech.com.

Enjoy!

Kristopher

Kristopher,

Just emailed this as well, but:

Can you update the price engine to show whether the product is OEM or Retail? This is very important because OEM/Retail products can vary greatly, such as CPU's which have no heatsink for OEM versions, or products with shorter warranties than retail versions.

 

[Kccdx2]

woot, great work!

But er, is it supposed to be in .xml format??

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <rss version="2.0">
- <channel>
<title>AnandTech Real Time Price Engine (RTPE) RSS Feed</title>
<description>This channel is a complete list of all of the best prices of each hardware item featured in the AnandTech RTPE</description>

etc...

 

[crimson117]

Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki
Today we are officially starting our Open Beta for the AnandTech RTPE RSS feed. Feel free to pretty much do whatever you want with it

http://labs.anandtech.com/rss.aspx (its about 200K)

Suggestions? Send them to me, kristopher@anandtech.com.

Enjoy!

Kristopher

The zipzoomfly link for the sempron 2400+ takes you to newegg. (screenshot)

 

[crimson117]

Originally posted by: tuongo
I'm using Firefox 1.0PR, but I can't figure out how to use this page. When I click the link it says:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

I *think* I'm looking for a button in the lower right hand corner that says RSS. I've seen this before when I use woot.

Some sites are configured to put that little icon. Slashdot is.

If you need to Live Bookmark an RSS feed that doesn't have that icon, go to Bookmarks, Manage Bookmarks, File, New Live Bookmark, then paste in the link.

Then, go back to the browser, press ctrl-B to open the bookmarks sidebar, and you can click through the links to see each product page!

 

[JohnDoh]

yah! the little icon in the corner pleaseeee!

 

[KristopherKubicki]

I dont suppose anyone knows how to make the Description tag work correct in firefox 1.0 - do they?

Kristopher

 

[CHAOSMAN]

this is cool, works in firefox also, great!

 

[crimson117]

Kristopher,

Just add this to the price guide page to get the little icon in the corner (you already do it for news/articles):

<LINK REL="alternate" TITLE="AnandTech Real Time Price Engine (RTPE) RSS Feed" HREF="http://labs.anandtech.com/rss.aspx" TYPE="application/rss+xml">

 

[KristopherKubicki]

crimson117: Awesome, thanks! (its on labs.anandtech.com now, ill add it to the other machines soon).

Kristopher

 

[bupkus]

EDIT: Ok, I actually read the method and it works for me now. Sorry.
PS: Whatever you do, don't scroll to the bottom and select "Open in tabs" hehe.

I only get the following in Firefox 1.0:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

 

[KLS]

This is that Firefox displays for me....


This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

-
<rss version="2.0">
-
<channel>
-
<title>
AnandTech Real Time Price Engine (RTPE) QuickSearch RSS Feed
</title>
-
<description>
This channel is a complete list of all of the best prices of each hardware item featured in the AnandTech RTPE
</description>
<link>http://www.anandtech.com/guide...uide.aspx</link>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>Copyright 2004 AnandTech</copyright>
<webMaster>kristopher@anandtech.com (Kristopher Kubicki)</webMaster>
<managingEditor>anand.shimpi@anandtech.com (Anand Lal Shimpi)</managingEditor>
-
<item>
<title>CPU AMD [$50] Duron 1.3GHz</title>

 

[ActuaryTm]

Excellent work, Kristopher.

 

[maxcom]

what is RSS ?

 

[keitaro]

I'd like to take a moment to provide some input to the RSS feed, having been fetching the feed from Thunderbird for the past several days now.

The immense size of the feed is a little overwhelming but it's nice that it's very detailed. There's only a single thing I'd like to change from the general feed: remove the price and perhaps a few model details.

The problem I'm finding is that while the engine updates frequently. Parts and products change in prices every so often and so I'm happy that I can keep up with some of the changes. The problem is multiple entries for the same item -- an Athlon 64 3200+ for instance. Eventually, as I continue to refresh the feed every 30 minutes, I'll see the same entry over and over again except the only difference will be the price in its title. So I propose that the price portion is removed.

I do not know how other products are listed. And some also changes in what is the cheapest. Because NV and ATi products can vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, I'd like to only know the particular model type, such as the GeForce 6800 GT or the X800 XL. Instead of placing the 3rd-party manufacturer's name, like Gigabyte for instance, have it placed in the description instead.

I believe that this method will be better as it becomes easier to read rather than having to simply view the title of the new entries. The entries can be continually updated and, in theory with other RSS aggregators, can be determined if the entry is recently updated or changed.

 

[crimson117]

I'm utterly baffled by your comments...

Originally posted by: keitaro
So I propose that the price portion is removed.

... the price is the most useful part. So you can find the lowest price on whatever you're looking for. Isn't that the whole point?

Because NV and ATi products can vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, I'd like to only know the particular model type, such as the GeForce 6800 GT or the X800 XL

Because video cards vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, that the reason to SHOW the manufacturer in the name, and not hide it in the description!

And why would you refresh the feed every 30 minutes if you weren't looking for price changes? Are you waiting for a new model to come out??

 

[JohnDoh]

Live bookmark.................................................................

 

[Dragonbate]

Originally posted by: crimson117

Originally posted by: tuongo
I'm using Firefox 1.0PR, but I can't figure out how to use this page. When I click the link it says:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

I *think* I'm looking for a button in the lower right hand corner that says RSS. I've seen this before when I use woot.

Some sites are configured to put that little icon. Slashdot is.

If you need to Live Bookmark an RSS feed that doesn't have that icon, go to Bookmarks, Manage Bookmarks, File, New Live Bookmark, then paste in the link.

Then, go back to the browser, press ctrl-B to open the bookmarks sidebar, and you can click through the links to see each product page!

Thanks that worked for me :beer:

 

[SUOrangeman]

I am relatively new to RSS thanks to Firefox 1.0. I have used this price engine several times. Given the massive number of items listed, is it possible to have submenus (say, CPU, RAM, Video card, etc.) with the individual items in the appropriate category?

-SUO

 

[cyberfuzz]

all i see is xml code. :\

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: cyberfuzz
all i see is xml code. :\

Same here.

 

[crimson117]

Originally posted by: blazert40

Originally posted by: cyberfuzz
all i see is xml code. :\

Same here.

That's all it is. Just like if you look at a web page in a text viewer, all you'd see is HTML code.

You need to use an RSS reader, or add it as a Firefox live bookmark as described above.

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: crimson117
Can you update the price engine to show whether the product is OEM or Retail? This is very important because OEM/Retail products can vary greatly, such as CPU's which have no heatsink for OEM versions, or products with shorter warranties than retail versions.

At the silent behest of the patrons of this thread, would like to reiterate the request of this feature.

Should not be all that difficult to do, as it seems in most cases the engine is already capturing the model number, and the model numbers seem to differ (Example: ADA3200DIK4BI (OEM) v ADA3200BIBOX (Retail)).

 

[Jawadali]

Anyone have a quick guide to RSS? I've seen it around, but I don't know exactly how to use it.

Thanks.

 

[WooDaddy]

Kris,

The redirect part of the feed isn't working.. HEP ME PUHLEASE!!!

 

[tishoo]

SWEET

I support the recommendation for (re)categorization and splitting the list up to enhance readiblity. SAGE in Ffx now shows me 738 items! Although enabling the Feed Item List under Options (for SAGE) makes it quite eminently readable and neatly numbered.