Miscellaneous Hacks - Kindle Daily Deal Grabber by BOP5

Brought to you by BirdOPrey5 / Qapla.com

Version 2.1.4

Compatible with VB 3.7.x, VB 3.8.x, and VB 4.x.x.

Now compatible with Amazon.com, Amazon.uk and Amazon.de!

Every day Amazon has "daily deal" on one or more Amazon Kindle ebooks. This deal will usually reduce the price of an ebook to only $0.99 to $1.99, which is a signficant savings off the regular price.

Recently they started including a daily deal for kids or teens as well.

Amazon allows you to sign up for an email notice of the deal but they are notoriously unreliable. Amazon does NOT offer an official RSS feed of the daily deal either.

This mod will grab the info of each daily deal straight from Amazon and post it to your forum as either a new thread or a new post in an existing thread.

VB4 Demo: Kindle Daily Deal at Qapla.com Forum
VB3 Demo: Kindle Daily Deal at Joe's Ultimate Off Topic

You can completely customize how the post will read using an easy replacement system above.

This mod relies on Amazon providing consistent pages and data. In my testing it works the vast majority of the time. However there is no guarantee it will work all the time on every daily deal. I have done my best to always at least provide a link to the deal even if other info is unavailable but I can't guarantee it will always work.

This mod relies on a scheduled task to run daily. Amazon usually posts the deal by 12 AM Pacific Time. You may need to go to Admin CP -> Scheduled Tasks -> Scheduled Tasks Manager to set a more appropriate time for this task to run on your forum. (Sometimes they are late in posting the deal though so I suggest waiting until at least 2AM Pacific Time to run it. )


Affiliate ID: This mod provides the site Admin the option for providing their own Amazon affiliate ID. If no affiliate ID is provided, my affiliate ID will be used.

If you have viglinks or skimlinks installed on your forum be sure you have the option to overwrite amazon affiliate ids turned on- both companies offer this option.

If upgrading from a 1.x version it is strongly recommended you uninstall the old version first. If you do not you will need to manually edit the Post Content settings to the new value.

Please Mark as Installed if you use this.
Donations always appreciated.

[Mr_Running]

Have been testing it for a little over a week and I just wanted to provide an update.
The postings for me seem to be later and later each passing day.
I love the mod but have uninstalled it on my site because I feel the kindle book topics really don't work for my forum but mod is marked installed as I may re-visit it again and may continue testing.

[BirdOPrey5]

Updated to version 2.1.2 due to changes in Amazon USA daily deal formatting. Amazon also removed the titles of the deal books from the page.

The title will now show something like "Romance Daily Deal" or "Teens Daily Deal", etc...

If updating (USA ONLY) please change the post template setting to:

[B][SIZE=3]Kindle Daily Deal for {DATE}[/SIZE][/B]

[B][I][URL="{LINK}"]{TITLE}[/URL][/I][/B]

[URL="{LINK}"][img]https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/[/img][/URL]

[B]About:[/B] {SHORTDESC}

[B]Deal Price: {DEALPRICE}[/B] (Today Only) ({DISCOUNT} Off)

[B][SIZE=3]Other Deal[/SIZE][/B]

[B][I][URL="{LINK}"]{ALT_TITLE}[/URL][/I][/B]

[URL="{LINK}"][img]https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/[/img][/URL]

[B]About:[/B] {ALT_SHORTDESC}

[B]Deal Price: {ALT_DEALPRICE}[/B] (Today Only) ({ALT_DISCOUNT} Off)


[B][URL="{LINK}"]View More Deals Now[/URL][/B] or [URL="{ALINK}"]Browse Amazon.com[/URL].

UK and German Amazon users do not need to upgrade.

[Cla75]

Good Mod, but
is not possible for italian version ?
www.amazon.it

thanks for support

[BirdOPrey5]

Updated to version 2.1.3 which fixes the price issue for Amazon USA. No update needed for Amazon UK or Germany.

Amazon changed the wording from "Today's Price" to "Deal Price" had to update the code.

Originally Posted by Cla75

Good Mod, but
is not possible for italian version ?
www.amazon.it

thanks for support

I can do Italy, or any other Amazon site if you can give me the link to the Daily Deal page.

For Amazon USA it's: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...cId=1000677541

I could only find for UK and Germany while searching, I'm not sure every country has daily deals.

[Nirjonadda]

Bug on Thread / Post Title? How to fix on this issue?

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[BirdOPrey5]

Do not use {SHORTDESC} in Thread / Post Title in settings.

[Nirjonadda]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Do not use {SHORTDESC} in Thread / Post Title in settings.

But Bug on Product Details,How to fix on this issue ?

About:

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[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Updated to version 2.1.3 which fixes the price issue for Amazon USA. No update needed for Amazon UK or Germany.

Amazon changed the wording from "Today's Price" to "Deal Price" had to update the code.

Hi ..

I updated but it doesn't seem to be showing the prices any longer for me? (see pic)

Thanks ...

Regards,
Doug

[glen290]

Same here, not getting any prices showing either.

Also get this error if I enable VBCredits.

Fatal error: Call to a member function escape_string() on a non-object in /home/tenpinfo/public_html/take5/dbtech/credits/credits_core.php on line 568

[BirdOPrey5]

Yeah prices changed, will need an update.

The vbcredits error isn't related to this mod, this mod has no plugins so it can't interfere with anything.