Re: A new way to browse the FIRST website
 

He would appreciate them but nothing compares to the caliber of his baked goods. His peanut butter brownie combo cookies killed me when we visited the Poofs last winter.

For Pat, thanks for constantly updating the links. It really does take the hassle of browsing the FIRST site for information regarding teams and events.

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Done. Thanks for the reminder.

Re: A new way to browse the FIRST website
 

Pat, do you accept offers of bacon? Perhaps chocolate covered bacon and your favorite adult beverage will suffice.

Thanks for keeping this up to date, I use it all the time.

Re: A new way to browse the FIRST website
 

Pat, why not make a pre2013 event code, used on a post 2013 request automatically redirect to its 2013 event code? You seem to have the conversion table...

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Along those lines, there have been a few times I've tried to look up old years data with the new event code.

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Yeah... I've done that a bunch of times now too. Pat? Can you make the event codes auto coerce to the proper one based on the year we ask for?

ie. If I go to frclinks.com/e/on/2013, it should redirect to frclinks.com/e/onto/2013
or if i go to frclinks.com/e/onto/2009, it should redirect to frclinks.com/e/on/2009

Re: A new way to browse the FIRST website
 

WOOW that's awesome!! You just made my day!

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Hokay, done.

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Awesome! More cookies for Pat.

Frclinks is probably the single biggest tool I use for FRC. Makes getting to the information I want SO much easier.

Almost every day I use it for something.

Re: A new way to browse the FIRST website
 

Is frclinks broken now? It appears that USFIRST.org has pushed out a new team & event locator.

Re: A new way to browse the FIRST website
 

The team links (frclinks.frclinks.com/t/nnnn) are "broken" in so far as the direct to the 2014 teams, most of which do not "exist" yet, or something of the sort. (?)

Things with years (frclinks.frclinks.com/e/m/new/2013) or that are not year-specific (frclinks.frclinks.com/t) continue to work, and the team page links will "work" once those teams register. Might be one of the few downsides to have TIMS open so early! ;)

EDIT: FIRST did change the event codes this past year, too. They're arguably more logical, but if you're not sure about them you might have to re-lookup from frclinks.frclinks.com.

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With this URL: http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/team/FRC/83083

FIRST is SOOO close to having a useable website without the need for other resources like frclinks (although I still like frclinks for requiring less characters typed). All they need to do now is to change the URL from having a unique database ID to having the team number like the following link:

http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/team/FRC/122

These links would be so much better.

Re: A new way to browse the FIRST website
 

I pushed a quick fix this morning, but I'll improve upon it later. It should now at least work for teams that were active in 2013.

I did a little bit of investigation and it looks like this new scheme is going to be slightly easier to work with, at least -- FRCLinks will no longer have to scrape the FIRST website on every request to get a valid session token when looking up defunct team numbers.

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Cool, thanks!

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It's completely possible, although I have no clue how they have the site setup. They're using Drupal now, so the random numbers might be the node ID (I think). Using Fields and Tokens, they very well could use the team numbers.

There may be some valid reason why they don't have it setup that way, though.