Enhancement - Download Weekly Sales

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Would it be possible to get a version, or an option in this version that lets 
you download weekly sale reports.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rendel.j...@gmail.com on 13 Sep 2010 at 8:14

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It's doubtful I'll ever modify the script for the weekly sales reports mainly 
due to a lack of time. If someone else would like to do it, I'll happily add it 
to the trunk. You can also use AppViz 
(http://www.ideaswarm.com/products/appviz/).

-KIRBY

Original comment by whitepea...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2010 at 2:01

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Original comment by whitepea...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2010 at 2:02

• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
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hello,
this here presented scraper is absolutely cool.

however, IMO the feature to get weekly reports is definitely missing.
i have been playing around with the code for a while, but i cannot figure out 
how remote-controlling of the javascript functionality is working.

question: has somebody produced the (probably only) few lines of code necessary 
to switch the Sales and Trends panel to "Weekly"?

thanks a lot in advance

Original comment by c.schlei...@gmail.com on 30 Apr 2011 at 12:32

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Nobody?
Is there really no activity here?

c.

Original comment by c.schlei...@gmail.com on 2 May 2011 at 4:24

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If you would like to add the feature, I'll happily add the changes to the 
source code trunk. However, I don't have plans to modify the script myself for 
weekly sales report mainly due to a lack of time.

-KIRBY

Original comment by ki...@whitepeaksoftware.com on 2 May 2011 at 4:44

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hi kirby,
yes, i know, you already said so.
i bet you invested quite some amount of time into figuring out, how the 
javascript parts on the sales page can be
automated with urllib calls.
and beeing no friend of re-inventing the wheel, i am quite reluctant to invest 
the same amount of time
to try-and-error find this out myself.
if you remember how this works and could give me the crucial (probably) 4 lines 
of code,
i'd be happy to add this as command line functionality to the existing piece of 
code.

thanks

Original comment by c.schlei...@gmail.com on 2 May 2011 at 4:51

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Screen scraping a web site is a pain in the ass. It's rarely straight forward. 
iTC is confusing for sure, but it only takes an hour or two to study the HTML 
and figure out what is happening.  It's been a while since I looked at the 
script code and HTML so I can't offer any tips without spending the time, which 
I don't have, to refresh my memory. 

While I agree with you that I might be able to figure out the change faster 
based on my past experience, it would still probably take me a couple of hours 
to do a solid change. And I just don't have the time.  

Saying I don't have the time is also another way of saying it's not a priority 
for me. I have no need to download weekly reports. I'm only interested in 
downloading daily reports, which I have been doing since 2008. So while I can 
figure out the code change to support weekly reports, I have many other 
projects going on at the moment at are of a higher priority to me.

Part of the open source community spirit is contributing back. There are some 
who have taking the time to contribute to this script, and for that I am 
grateful. I'm sure each contributor thought that I could make the change faster 
than they could, but since they had a need that I did not, they took the extra 
time to learn the script, make the change, and contribute it so others can 
benefit.

I respect that you do not wish to invest your time learning the script and 
understanding how iTC works, but at the moment, that might be your only option 
should you want to see the feature added to the script in the near future. You 
have to decide the true value, or worth, of this feature to you. Is the feature 
worth you spending a few hours to a day learning the script and how iTC works? 
If so then it is a good investment of your time. On the other hand, if the 
feature has little value to you and is more of a nice to have, then waiting 
until someone else implements the feature is the best option.

-KIRBY

Original comment by ki...@whitepeaksoftware.com on 2 May 2011 at 5:17

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kirby,
thanks for the detailed explanation. i hear what your are saying and appreciate 
your thoughts. i will have to consider this then.

thanks

Original comment by c.schlei...@gmail.com on 2 May 2011 at 6:17