iPhone Backorder Status
Posted on July 18, 2008 at 09:08 AM
UPDATE (20080729): AT&T put a captcha on the order status page, so the script below no longer works. It was fun while it lasted.
Lots of people ordered iPhones at AT&T locations under the Direct Fulfillment method, and we are getting anxious. They are shipping out, but in more of a trickle than a flood. I found a forum of other people who are just as neurotic about it as I am, which makes me feel a little better. This time last week was the Day Of The iPhone Launch, and I was like a kid on Christmas morning. I could Not Sit Still.
So now we wait.
Someone on the forum whipped up a screen scraping script that would tell you how the orders for the store you placed your order is fairing. We brought his server down. He came up with another version of the page, which is here.
I also decided to whip up a quick and dirty ruby script that does the same thing. I called it att.rb on my compy.
UPDATE: fixed some formatting with the code vs blog markup and added the queue. UPDATE 2: redid code to be a little more ruby and a lot less perl. UPDATE 3: Added better reporting on cancel status.
