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DJ Dowlz
supreme corsten addict

Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Adelaide, Australia

Just a suggestions for online record searching

I'll give you the picture. You're looking for a really hard to find record and there's about 50 online record stores in which it might be lerking. Now you go along to every single one of those sites and you do a search. This takes forever!

Wouldn't it be easier if somebody made a website in which you entered a simple query and it then went on its own merry way, opening up 50 windows with the results from each of the separate record stores. Then you could quickly flick through the results to see if any of the stores had the vinyl you were looking for. Just a thought. Or does something like this already exist?

I know there's stuff like gemm and musicstack, but not all stores are listed on them.

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Sep-20-2002 04:49 Australia

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Alccode
teksetter!

Registered: Apr 2002
Location: toronto

that would be a very interesting web project.

there aren't any such utilities or services on the web AFAIK...

Sep-20-2002 06:01

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shompton
Senior tranceaddict

Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Boulder, CO

If anyone else on the forum knows Perl or PHP and HTML, and would like to team up with me to build such a beast, I'd be happy to tackle it and put in the time as well as supply the domain and the web hosting for it. Opening 50 brower windows would be very ridiculous, but perhaps you could search 5 at a time (work on ones in your country first, or ones you feel have the best prices, etc.)

Anybody? It will be some heavy regex work...

Sep-20-2002 08:40 United States

hey cheggy
like a tiger

Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Sydney, Australia

www.gemm.com

the sites it searches are pretty crap though. One that searched through stuff like juno and the likes would be brilliant if possible

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Last edited by hey cheggy on Sep-20-2002 at 09:15

Sep-20-2002 09:06 Australia

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tubby
Supreme tranceaddict

Registered: Jul 2002
Location: sydney

www.djnexis.com does a search but doesn't link you to the sites.

Sep-21-2002 00:45 Australia

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DJ LIQUID
House DJ 4 Life

Registered: Jul 2001
Location: IL USA

I know HTML

Sep-21-2002 01:03 Mexico

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hapamoto
R3ELISM

Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Canoga Park, California

i'd be very glad to use this search engine after you create it.. i give mad-props to u if u can do it.. but couldn't u just display all the findings in one browser window? cos i remember there used to be a search engine (duno if it still exists and i can't remember its name either) but it would search all the big engines like yahoo, google, lycos, altavista, hotbot, etc.. and display the findings in one window and give links to the specific engine that found the page ur looking for.

Sep-21-2002 14:07 United States

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DJ Dowlz
supreme corsten addict

Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Adelaide, Australia

It would be fantastic if it could display all the results on one very long page, but I think it would be a lot more difficult to program it if that was the case.

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Sep-22-2002 01:04 Australia

DJ Dowlz
supreme corsten addict

Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Adelaide, Australia

quote:
Originally posted by DJ LIQUID
I know HTML

Do you know Java too? Cause I think all the query buttons are PHP based.

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Sep-22-2002 01:08 Australia

DJ LIQUID
House DJ 4 Life

Registered: Jul 2001
Location: IL USA

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Dowlz

Do you know Java too? Cause I think all the query buttons are PHP based.
i havent learned java yet

Sep-22-2002 04:19 Mexico

djxtension
That's Not My Name

Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Oldenzaal, Netherlands

quote:
Originally posted by shompton
If anyone else on the forum knows Perl or PHP and HTML, and would like to team up with me to build such a beast, I'd be happy to tackle it and put in the time as well as supply the domain and the web hosting for it. Opening 50 brower windows would be very ridiculous, but perhaps you could search 5 at a time (work on ones in your country first, or ones you feel have the best prices, etc.)

Anybody? It will be some heavy regex work...

I know some PHP, my HTML-knowledge is quite good.

And the idea is really interesting...

The only thing is that I live in The Netherlands...

PM me if you still want to do this...

Mind you, my PHP isn't that great...

Sep-25-2002 20:13 Netherlands

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jdat
Jay Van Dat

Registered: Oct 2001
Location: I dont even know

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Dowlz

Do you know Java too? Cause I think all the query buttons are PHP based.

no offense but what does that phrase mean ????

anyhow, yeah , it'd require deep PHP , my sql , and bunch of database knowledge .....

+you'd have to be "partners" with the websites for obvious reasons....

soons like an interesting idea ....

I'll do my research