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Camel Camel Camel-elion

So, for my wishlist, I kept trying to find a way link to CamelCamelCamel (henceforth "🐫🐫🐫") if the store was Amazon. I thought of adding another field to the wishlist JSON file, but that adds more work for me. If I get the correct URL, I could probably just slice up the link and make one that works for 🐫🐫🐫.

Cut to the Chase Product ID

It appears that the, canonical URL format for Amazon links is in the form of https://amazon.com/dp/1234567890. Which means the last ~10 characters are the product ID. Similarly, 🐫🐫🐫 uses that in their link structure: https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/1234567890. Hmm.

  {{- if strings.Contains .store "Amazon" }}
  {{     $prod := substr .url -10 -}}
  {{     $cccL := printf "https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/%s" $prod -}}
  <a class="camels" title="Check the price history on CamelCamelCamel" href="{{ $cccL }}" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">🐫🐫🐫</a>
  {{ end -}}

Et voila!

Lipstick for That Camel

Now, just style it up real fancy:

    #wishlist .camels
    {
        display: block;
        font-size: x-large;
        margin: 0.8rem 0;
        text-decoration: underline dashed 2px #CCC;
        text-underline-position: under;
    }

Now they get fancy price history links. And I can stop pestering them to make sure they get a good deal by checking for such things. 🎉

Editor's Notes

Could I have done this, possibly, with an API request or some other fancier lookup that isn't so fragile? Yeah. I could. I also don't care.

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