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So what's up with the woot trackers?

Jul 24, 2012 1:08 PM

I've been a fan of the wooters.us tracker for a long time, and used it with every woot-off in several years. (One of the things I like about it is the page title text actually tells me the basics of what I need to know--% left and item name--so I can leave it minimized on my taskbar and only open it when I want more info.)

For today's woot-off though, when I fired it up I see that the percent left figure for all items is some crazy negative number: -1900%, -2900%, etc. I don't know if it's the site redesign or what (though if I had to guess...) but I figured I'd try out a few other woot watchers to see if there was something that worked better.

Almost all the watchers I tried seem to be behaving the same way. (Evidence pointing to site redesign as the culprit is mounting...) The one exception I've found is the kishk.org tracker, which gives the correct % left but messes up the item name.

Anybody got a lead on a woot watcher that's playing nice with the new site?

codex codex

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As I understand it, we are updating our APIs which kinda threw a wrench to the trackers. Wootalyzer is accurately signaling sale launches and sellouts.

thunderthighs thunderthighs
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I'm using Mywoot.net and its percentages are wildly off as well, but it is tracking the items OK. Something about the redesign must have broken things. It worked fine last Woot-Off.

nortonsark nortonsark
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I guess I'll try Wootalyzer again. I'd given up on it a long time ago.

nortonsark nortonsark
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Wootalyzer's percentage bar is also not working, but it does seem to be tracking the available item OK. For the longest time it would be out of sync but now it is working again. It doesn't track Sport.Woot yet.

nortonsark nortonsark
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From the wootwatcher beta, I know that woot gas updated their API.

Mywoot.net is still working, except for the % and time left estimates. It is basically reporting 100 times the % sold with a minus sign in front. So 90% remaining is reported as -1000% and 60% remaining is shown as -4000%.

Confusing, but then it is woot, so just consider it part of the fun.

baqui63 baqui63
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mywoot.net seems to be working now with Chrome browser, percentages and everything.

oo7slice oo7slice
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mywoot.net is working fine now on IE9. I've been away from my desk, so I don't know when it started to work properly. Wootalyzer is not displaying the Shirt sale; it's showing the sold-out TV from just prior to the lunch break.

nortonsark nortonsark
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@nortonsark: mywoot.net seems to be broken now. Unless those speakers really are at 100% for 293 more minutes.

s0xm0nk3y s0xm0nk3y
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Thunderthighs has the answer apparently. Thanks TT.

jsimsace jsimsace

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