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[Bill_the_Bear]

Ok dudes, I've made it work on a loop, so I can grab every GTI or GTD order in any range of order number I specify.  However, it seems like the website sometimes takes forever to respond risking a crash of my program.  Need to overcome this.

Perhaps some method to timeout after 5 seconds and come back to that number later?  I've no idea how to do this though... yet!

Thinking about it, I have a suspicion that the delays occur when it finds an order number that is valid (i.e. has a car associated with it) but that car is not a GTI or GTD...

[matchboy]

I'm looking forward to the summary charts of the results! Tonight?!

[Bill_the_Bear]

Unfortunately not tonight.

I gotta figure out this delay problem.  I just ran it on 50 order numbers and about 20 results pop out in 1 second then I'm staring at an egg timer for about 2mins for the next result.  I have to brain storm this problem.

Also, since there are no confirmed BWs yet its a little pointless running it right now anyway!

[Bill_the_Bear]

That was odd.  I got bored waiting and tried to cancel it and suddenly the other 30 results popped up.  Hmm.

Also, any of you lot ordered a Limestone Grey GTD from "Phillips" dealers?  It was the one GTI/GTD hit I scored on the 50 numbers I picked to test it on! I suppose it might be the dealer placed an order for a demo and this is it.

[Bill_the_Bear]

I actually found a better way to do this using Firefox instead of excel so I can access multiple links at the same time and an error just means you miss one number instead of having to start all over because it crashed excel.

One drawback... I need 50 Euros for a program whose functions I need to use.  Hmm, to be or not to be?

[Gryzor]

I actually found a better way to do this using Firefox instead of excel so I can access multiple links at the same time and an error just means you miss one number instead of having to start all over because it crashed excel.

One drawback... I need 50 Euros for a program whose functions I need to use.  Hmm, to be or not to be?

What program Bear?  I might have it 

[Bill_the_Bear]

I actually found a better way to do this using Firefox instead of excel so I can access multiple links at the same time and an error just means you miss one number instead of having to start all over because it crashed excel.

One drawback... I need 50 Euros for a program whose functions I need to use.  Hmm, to be or not to be?

What program Bear?  I might have it 

Its pretty obscure, I never heard of it before.  "OutWit Hub".

[Gryzor]

Its pretty obscure, I never heard of it before.  "OutWit Hub".

At this point I shall bow out gracefully!

[Bill_the_Bear]

I've scanned about 400 order numbers using the limited functionality I can access for free.  Interestingly there are large number ranges with no orders actually associated with them (i.e. they return "sorry we don't recognise that number").  I can think of a few reasons why this might be but it does complicate matters.  Out of the 400 numbers I've checked there are 22 active orders, of which 11 are Golfs, only one of these is a GTI or GTD (my own).

EDIT:
I spoke too soon.  Just hit on 3 GTD orders in close succession.  Possibly demos for a dealer?

[Gryzor]

My order number still isn't recognised in the online tracker so not sure what's going on.  Like I've said previously though, not too fussed - you can weigh a pig all you like but it won't get any fatter!  It'll be here when it's here, and not knowing is almost better as there are no expectations to be shattered!