Why so many Planex sanders on Recon?

[six-point socket II]

Pretty crazy what you can do.  [eek]  [big grin]

Kind regards,
Oliver

 

[Coen]

Lol, you are actually bot-scraping the Recon site to get a full database of what was listed when and in what quantity? Nice!

 

[4nthony]

Lol, you are actually bot-scraping the Recon site to get a full database of what was listed when and in what quantity? Nice!

[cool]

I actually have three Festool-related apps.

1. An app that parses all the US product catalogs (2011-2023) for a unique list of SKUs. This only needs to run when a new catalog is released.
2. An app that takes the list of catalog SKUs and does batch lookups on F-USA to see what is current and what is old.
3. The bot which sends the notification to Slack when there's a product change. The notification includes which catalog years the SKU was in, whether or not the SKU is active on F-USA, and a date to indicate how recently the SKU was checked against F-USA.

It's been a fun little side project!

After building it, I've learned from Festool groups on FB that there are other bots out there. One writes to Twitter but I think it's getting shut down. The others share simple code for the user to run themselves.

 

[Coen]

If only Festool gave official notice for when stuff would go out of production. Like Intel always gives like an 18 months notice: order by xx for products y,w,z

 

[squall_line]

If only Festool gave official notice for when stuff would go out of production. Like Intel always gives like an 18 months notice: order by xx for products y,w,z

If there were more government-type purchasers for Festool, and purchasing them for environments in which they may need to operate for another 20 years without any changes whatsoever to the firmware, that would make sense.

In most retail, consumer environments, it becomes self-defeating.  See also: end-of-model-year inventory blowouts on new automobiles, etc.