Chat with people in Apple Stores (iChat | AIM)

http://www.lehnerstudios.com/stuff/applestorechat/

by a904guy • 15 years ago

35 7 15 years ago

tudorachim• 15 years ago

How is this implemented?

X-Istence• 15 years ago

The account names used on the computers at Apple stores apparently follow a pattern, the script using that pattern creates all of the accounts possible at a store, then using an API available from AOL grabs the current status of that "username", and their user icon, displaying online or offline status.

The actual script doing the fetching and whatnot is very easy to read: http://www.lehnerstudios.com/stuff/applestorechat/applestore...

joshu• 15 years ago

suggestion, put the store town name first, so i can keyboard complete. nobody's gonna type in store numbers to find them.

zbowling• 15 years ago

I know! drives me nuts.

mikeflynn• 15 years ago

I already noticed some of the locations are wrong:"West County" store is in Des Peres, Missouri, not Iowa.

daimyoyo• 15 years ago

Didn't work for me. I tried almost a dozen stores that should be open, (it's almost 4PM GMT right now) and I couldn't find a single terminal to chat on. Good idea, but it needs some fine tuning.

opian• 15 years ago

Good way to crawl mail adresses.

Chat with people in Apple Stores (iChat | AIM)

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