Download WootAgent we have released version 2.0!

Gatzby wrote:Hey folks,

Those of you that provide checkers/trackers for the Woot-off do everyone a great service. Why not keep 'em centrally located? Please keep your Woot-off related links in World of Woot (say, this thread, even) instead of spamming every product thread. The Roombas will love you for it.

Stop the spamming on the product threads? Heh, good luck with that, Gatzby...

Here is my contribution to the useful linkage:

http://www.pclanparty.com/woot_off_tracker/index.php
http://www.woottracking.com/index.php
http://www.bagsofcrap.com/woot_simple.htm
http://woot.ivant.info/
http://semideaf.com/woot/woot.php
http://wootoff.pingbot.com/
http://wootoff.poppap.com/
http://www.fastwoot.com/

Have fun down at the woot-off!

Here's mine.

woot-tracker.com


I like to think it's stable.. and fast.. I can't be the judge of that myself though.

Is there any working software trackers? I tried Woot Agent 2.0 but it's very laggy, it randomly pops up and makes the "new woot" sound, and most of the time it ends up just crashing.

How about checkers that work through a proxy??? I installed wootalyzer, but it won't work through my companies proxy. And Woot Agent just kept crashing.

ned4spd8874 wrote:How about checkers that work through a proxy??? I installed wootalyzer, but it won't work through my companies proxy. And Woot Agent just kept crashing.

Just use one of mine... they all work through proxys (as long as the site isn't blocked)

ircmaxell wrote:Just use one of mine... they all work through proxys (as long as the site isn't blocked)

Yeah, I saw one of those and it opens up. I was looking for a software solution though. Or at least one that will automatically open up the page when it's the Bandolier of Carrots.

ned4spd8874 wrote:Yeah, I saw one of those and it opens up. I was looking for a software solution though. Or at least one that will automatically open up the page when it's the Bandolier of Carrots.

LOL... mine plays an audio alert on a new item...

I'm trying to get the mobile tracker, but it can't find the program to open on my pc. Any advice? Thanks.

ircmaxell wrote:Just use one of mine... they all work through proxys (as long as the site isn't blocked)

http://www.wootalyzer.com is a software solution which will open the buy page for Bandolier of Carrots, does not communicate directly off the smashed woot servers, and can even play the woot off theme song .

doublemhi wrote:http://www.wootalyzer.com is a software solution which will open the buy page for Bandolier of Carrots, does not communicate directly off the smashed woot servers, and can even play the woot off theme song .

Yeah, I use this one at home, but it doesn't seem to work here at my workplace because of the proxy i am assuming.

elynnjean wrote:I'm trying to get the mobile tracker, but it can't find the program to open on my pc. Any advice? Thanks.

You need a Mobile browser to view it (there are a few emulators out there, and opera will do it, but a normal browser won't)

ircmaxell wrote:LOL... mine plays an audio alert on a new item...

I'm not sure why, but I can't get an audio alert. I selected the woot sound option, but I get no sound. Anything else I was supposed to do?

I really enjoy your site. Good stuff!

I use ThisOne! It's not as slow as some of the others I've used.

ELFN wrote:I'm not sure why, but I can't get an audio alert. I selected the woot sound option, but I get no sound. Anything else I was supposed to do?

I really enjoy your site. Good stuff!

If woot screws up, and an item doesn't sell out in the RSS feed before the next item, it won't work right, but it should still work... It should be playing something tho (I'm using it currently)...

ircmaxell wrote:If woot screws up, and an item doesn't sell out in the RSS feed before the next item, it won't work right, but it should still work... It should be playing something tho (I'm using it currently)...

Nope. Nothing.

ircmaxell wrote:If woot screws up, and an item doesn't sell out in the RSS feed before the next item, it won't work right, but it should still work... It should be playing something tho (I'm using it currently)...

I'm not getting the audio feed either. Also the tracker is not updating when a new item appears.

carolmka wrote:I'm not getting the audio feed either. Also the tracker is not updating when a new item appears.

Are you sure it's refreshing? it's working fine here? What browsers?

ircmaxell wrote:Are you sure it's refreshing? it's working fine here? What browsers?

right now my office laptop is ie 6.0. Could that be the problem??

ircmaxell wrote:Are you sure it's refreshing? it's working fine here? What browsers?

Mine didn't refresh either. I had to do it manually. Now, it's tracking the percentages. I have IE 6.0.

carolmka wrote:right now my office laptop is ie 6.0. Could that be the problem??

It's possible... Try clearing your cache... it's using a javascript refresh, so it should work ok...

Anyone know of a good software one for Mac OS X?

ircmaxell wrote:It's possible... Try clearing your cache... it's using a javascript refresh, so it should work ok...

Ok so I cleared by cache. Right not the checker with sound is showing sold out for the bbq therm. and the simple checker is stuck at 68.1% for the bbq therm. And the TV is on the main page.

Im thinking about downloading firefox.

ircmaxell wrote:It's possible... Try clearing your cache... it's using a javascript refresh, so it should work ok...

Ok so I cleared by cache. Right not the checker with sound is showing sold out for the bbq therm. and the simple checker is stuck at 68.1% for the bbq therm. And the TV is on the main page.

Im thinking about downloading firefox.

ircmaxell wrote:It's possible... Try clearing your cache... it's using a javascript refresh, so it should work ok...

Ok so I cleared by cache. Right not the checker with sound is showing sold out for the bbq therm. and the simple checker is stuck at 68.1% for the bbq therm. And the TV is on the main page.

Im thinking about downloading firefox.

I wrote a little software checker/tracker for Mac OS X. You can get it at:

http://rcabell.googlepages.com/iwootbeta

It's new and probably has some bugs, hopefully not big nasty ones that will take down your computer, but nonetheless use at your own risk.

Item description updates every 30 seconds during a Woot Off, every 30 minutes otherwise.

Bugs in WootAgent 2.0 are being fixed and a new update should be released soon.

Here's mine: http://www.wootsup.com - side note - anyone hosting with Dreamhost? My site crashed the whole server last woot-off, so they moved me to a new server right away. I took the new server down today for a bit. Dreamhost tech support was super quick and responsive to fix it - I know people like to hate on Dreamhost, but they've been good to me, but I sure could do without the crashes. Anyone have any better suggestion for hosting?

wootjaffy wrote:Here's mine: http://www.wootsup.com - side note - anyone hosting with Dreamhost? My site crashed the whole server last woot-off, so they moved me to a new server right away. I took the new server down today for a bit. Dreamhost tech support was super quick and responsive to fix it - I know people like to hate on Dreamhost, but they've been good to me, but I sure could do without the crashes. Anyone have any better suggestion for hosting?

I have 2... A VPS with SPRY.com, and colocate a server yourself... That's what Bandolier of Carrots was/is on now... (It was on a VPS, and is now on a server that I own 100%...)

dreamhost is fine, but I'd never use it for hosting a woot tracker.

Someone already hosts one on the same box as mine (multiple ones actually). Makes me angry cause the box has 15+ loads and I can't do anything on there that I want to do.
So it would be pointless hosting one on dreamhost for me.


I have all my personal sites on there, and my woot tracker on our dedicated server.

http://www.wootsnoop.com -- Download

The ultimate desktop woot.com watcher.

wootsnoop wrote:http://www.wootsnoop.com -- Download

The ultimate desktop woot.com watcher.

Not bad not bad.

Two things.

1) it brings up IE instead of your default browser. I ONLY use IE for kaspersky scans just to keep IE clean.

2) theres no option for it to auto-buy certain woots. I liked that on wootalyzer.

I remember a while ago i downloaded a woot tracker that allowed you to enter a phone # and it would call it when there was a new item online. I cant remeber what it was called can any one help me?

FYI - Wootalyzer home page says they're down for this wootoff.

"FIND ANOTHER WOOT TRACKER FOR THIS WOOT-OFF!
WOOTALYZER'S HOST HAS SUSPENDED OUR ACCOUNT!
BUT WE WILL BE BACK - I PROMISE!"

Anyone else having trouble?

How about a Woot Vista Sidebar Gadget

Current Features include:
Gadget:

• Product Title
  
• Link to http://www.woot.com
  
• Visual alert of a Woot-Off
  
• Product quantity remaining during Woot-Off
  
• Product price
  
• Link directly to the product order page
  

• Product Title
  
• Link to http://www.woot.com
  
• Product price
  
• Product condition
  
• Product subtitle
  
• Product description
  
• Plays the product Wootcast
  
• Link to the product discussion forum
  
• Time remaining until the next Woot
  
• Links to various important Woot pages
  
• ...and More.
  

• Select which Woot feed to use
  
• Adjustment of Woot daylight savings status
  
• Daytime refresh rate
  
• Woot midnight refresh rate
  
• Woot-Off refresh rate
  
• Auto-Open option to launch the product order page when set text is detected in the product title
  

Here is mine!
http://www.mluker.com/quickbuy

dsatele wrote:FYI - Wootalyzer home page says they're down for this wootoff.

"FIND ANOTHER WOOT TRACKER FOR THIS WOOT-OFF!
WOOTALYZER'S HOST HAS SUSPENDED OUR ACCOUNT!
BUT WE WILL BE BACK - I PROMISE!"

Anyone else having trouble?

were back

doublemhi wrote:were back

If you want good hosting, let me know... I'm setting up a hosting company, and would be willing to give you a dedicated server for a good deal (when I say dedicated server, I'm not talking a celeron, I'm talking dual xeon's with 2 gigs of RAM and SCSI)...

I couldn't find a google gadget for displaying the current shirt.woot, so I created my own. Here it is: http://www.spacelysgadgets.com/shirtwoot