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.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Nirjonadda

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

About:

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Is it working now? Some days there will be missing info, it can't be perfect because Amazon is always changing.

If you still get the problem, which amazon site are you using? COM, UK, or DE?

[Nirjonadda]

I am using com(USA) , Does not fixed info.

[glen290]

Originally Posted by 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.

I only get the error when vbcredits is enabled and i try to run the cron job..

[BirdOPrey5]

Updated to version 2,1.4 - fixes prices on Amazon USA.

Originally Posted by glen290

I only get the error when vbcredits is enabled and i try to run the cron job..

The error:

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

is being generated from credits_core.php in the dbtech directory- I have no idea why vb credits would even attempt to run... Hmmm...

I'll bet it's running because the new thread is being created and it's set to run on thread creation... I'm using the vBulletin data manager to create the thread which as far as I know is the correct way of doing it. I don't like passing the buck but it really looks like the issue is with VB Credits mod.

[BadgerDog]

Uninstalled....

Results unpredictable ...

Thanks for the effort ...

Regards,
Doug

[BirdOPrey5]

Indeed the nature of the beast it will be unpredictable... today it picked up a second image of the romance daily deal for some reason.

No way to know how Amazon is going to format their pages before they do- it's just better than nothing, but far from perfect.

[inphoenix]

I get this error when I run the cron job. No new thread is created.
Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]/dbtech/credits/credits_vbulletin.php on line 405

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]/dbtech/credits/credits_vbulletin.php on line 405

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DEBUG INFO-------------------

Daily Deal URL: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...cId=1000677541

VB Version >= 4.1.4 (4.1.5)

VB Version >= 4.1.4 (4.1.5)
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/?tag=tablsuppforu-20
Big Img URL: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y2%2BTZx4FL.jpg
Small Img URL: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...4FL._SL110.jpg
Title: Kindle Daily Deal
Deal URL: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...ablsuppforu-20
Percent Off: %
Today's Price: $1.99
Date: 03-02-2013
Final Title: Kindle Daily Deal for 03-02-2013Kindle Daily DealAbout: Welcome to Deck Z, where 2,200 passengers are trapped aboard the doomed Titanic, on an icy Atlantic... with the walking dead.Deal Price: $1.99 (Today Only) (% Off)View Deals Now or Browse Amazon.com.

New Post Successful!

[BirdOPrey5]

It's a conflict with dbtech's credits mod. You'll have to talk to them or disable this mod- but this mod is coded correctly.

[inphoenix]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

It's a conflict with dbtech's credits mod. You'll have to talk to them or disable this mod- but this mod is coded correctly.

I disabled the credit mod and the Kindle Daily deal works now. Just for kicks, I decided to enable the credits mod and this still works with this warning.

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]/dbtech/credits/credits_vbulletin.php on line 405


Thanks for this mod. It does exactly what I wanted it to do.

A suggestion -> Would it be possible to create a mod where we provide the ASIN number (with some tag) and it would go and fetch (from Amazon) the price, star rating, pic and a small description in a post?

[BirdOPrey5]

Thanks for update. Please "Mark as Installed" if you are going to keep using this.

Your mod idea is intriguing. Usually 'content scrapping' in unethical, but like this mod it ultimately will only help Amazon sales I don't see that being a problem.

I will put some thought into this and announce here if I make something.