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13 <a href=
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21 <div class=
"title">Web service to look up HP and Dell computer hardware support status
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22 <div class=
"date"> 6th June
2012</div>
23 <div class=
"body"><p>A few days ago
24 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html">I
25 reported how to get
</a> the support status out of Dell using an
26 unofficial and undocumented SOAP API, which I since have found out was
27 <a href=
"http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2012-February/045959.html">discovered
28 by Daniel De Marco in february
</a>. Combined with my web scraping
29 code for HP, Dell and IBM
30 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html">from
31 2009</a>, I got inspired and wrote
32 <a href=
"https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/">a
33 web service
</a> based on Scraperwiki to make it easy to look up the
34 support status and get a machine readable result back.
</p>
36 <p>This is what it look like at the moment when asking for the JSON
40 % GET
<a href=
"https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&vendor=Dell&servicetag=2v1xwn1">https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&vendor=Dell&servicetag=
2v1xwn1
</a>
41 supportstatus({"servicetag": "
2v1xwn1", "warrantyend": "
2013-
11-
24", "shipped": "
2010-
11-
24", "scrapestamputc": "
2012-
06-
06T20:
26:
56.965847", "scrapedurl": "http://
143.166.84.118/services/assetservice.asmx?WSDL", "vendor": "Dell", "productid": ""})
45 <p>It currently support Dell and HP, and I am hoping for help to add
46 support for other vendors. The python source is available on
47 Scraperwiki and I welcome help with adding more features.
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