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Can’t believe no one has posted a comment like this yet, but: How on earth does this work? Where is it pulling data from?
by alanh 16y ago
Can’t believe no one has posted a comment like this yet, but: How on earth does this work? Where is it pulling data from?
- TomOfTTB 16y agoUPS' API delivers this kind of information and I assume they got the address from someone who already received one and then queried for packages from that address.
- liuhenry 16y agoIt's querying the UPS tracking API for reference numbers. These are assigned by the shipper (can be a description, customer name, or in this case sequential SKU blocks of 2000) so knowing the pattern would get you all of them. I played around with the reference numbers, and it seems like Google sent out 3 batches: AAC1XXXXXX (up to AAC1001982) AAC2XXXXXX (up to AAC2002127) AAC3XXXXXX (up to AAC3002115) All of these turn up 6 pound packages sent within the past few days, with the earliest being the 9th.