Wednesday, January 20, 2016

We are back in business!

I found that I was still able to scrape off of TCGPlayer, and I am not sure they know I can do it, but I can!

Before the printable price guides, I was able to scrape off just the table from the website.  They then change it so you had to repoint to the printable versions, but it looks like now with their new price guide they opened up the table on the webpage.

I will update this later, but I just wanted to send a quick update.  I was able to update my Price.xlsx with all the new connections, and update the Collection spreadsheet, but there are even more edits I need to post for the spreadsheets.  The prices for Mid shifted over a column, and the issue with N/A being presented on the web prices, so there will be some new updates to those changes.

But I have been able to get things 75% back up and running with Excel, and that will give me some more time to get coding to get my database up and running.

It is late and the wif is wanted to head to bed, so look for an update later!

FYI, I was going to make a pretty large purchase with some extra money I have saved up, and with the changes that had occurred I was really looking to not use TCG to buy anything and just go to the sites themselves.  But now with being able to keep my spreadsheets up to date with price, I just might throw some cash to the site again!

I know, it is pretty sad to not buy from the site for them wanting to keep this information to themselves, but come-on!  I am not some big business guy, I just don't want to post my collection on any site and keep the prices up to date.

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