I need a status check aggregator Forum

[trudat15]

I'm sick and tired of signing in to a million different status checkers every day. I need one place where I can see all of my status checks. There has to be some kid out there mad at his girlfriend and drunk ready to have a little law school fun. Right? Anyone?

[slax]

I saw in another thread on TLS that someone made an aggregator in the past but LSAC forced them to shut it down.

[bk1]

I'm sick and tired of signing in to a million different status checkers every day.

Then don't sign sign in to a million status checkers every day.

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[trudat15]

I'm sick and tired of signing in to a million different status checkers every day.

Then don't sign sign in to a million status checkers every day.

/thread

Then how am I to obsessively check my statuses for every school whenever there is an update in any of these threads?

[yoitsmebenny]

Would you guys have any interest in an Android/iPhone app for this? I was contemplating making one...

[northwood]

i would like to know, but im going to force myself to just wait until i get the email or snail mail....


well see how long that lasts though

[r6_philly]

Would you guys have any interest in an Android/iPhone app for this? I was contemplating making one...

You can't. The status checker log into the right school's checker by checking the referrer. Unless you are just going to make it into a collection of links then you just need a page not an app.

[yoitsmebenny]

Would you guys have any interest in an Android/iPhone app for this? I was contemplating making one...

You can't. The status checker log into the right school's checker by checking the referrer. Unless you are just going to make it into a collection of links then you just need a page not an app.

Couldn't you have it log in behind the scenes and clean up the interface? That's what I was thinking to do.

[yoitsmebenny]

Would you guys have any interest in an Android/iPhone app for this? I was contemplating making one...

You can't. The status checker log into the right school's checker by checking the referrer. Unless you are just going to make it into a collection of links then you just need a page not an app.

Hypothetically, you could write an application that contained the referring URLs to each LSAC status checker, and then users could select the schools, which would all be queried using the login credentials and then have the results returned. If you got crazy with it, you could even store a basic database of "most recent statuses," and then have Status Aggregator compare/contrast the newly acquired data (today's status) with the old statuses, and then only display new information.

Of course, if LSAC changed things up off of someone running a non-profit multi-status checker, they'd probably go apeshit over someone selling smartphone applications.

Also, this would do nothing for the non-LSAC status (e.g., Vandy, UTexas).

I don't see how the LSAC could have any right to control something like that. It's just a different way of viewing something that's already there

[r6_philly]

There is no API to query and return a standard output so you would have to parse the html output to get the status info. It's too much trouble than it's worth. It takes me 30 seconds to status check 10 schools so I don't really see the rationale in making anything other than a list of shortcuts.

[r6_philly]

I don't see how the LSAC could have any right to control something like that. It's just a different way of viewing something that's already there

What???? You can't understand why a company/organization has the right to control access to a proprietary application system (that someone else is paying for)?

[yoitsmebenny]

I don't see how the LSAC could have any right to control something like that. It's just a different way of viewing something that's already there

What???? You can't understand why a company/organization has the right to control access to a proprietary application system (that someone else is paying for)?

I can access the site with my web browser. I can make a web browser to access the site. Why can't I make a clean interface that shows me the relevant data with a web browser underlying it?

[r6_philly]

I don't see how the LSAC could have any right to control something like that. It's just a different way of viewing something that's already there

What???? You can't understand why a company/organization has the right to control access to a proprietary application system (that someone else is paying for)?

I can access the site with my web browser. I can make a web browser to access the site. Why can't I make a clean interface that shows me the relevant data with a web browser underlying it?

Because they don't want you to? They want you to access through the website only. I don't understand your point. You are an authorized user with a certain level of access and that's what you get. Why should they allow you the ability to make an app so you can charge $.99 in the app store?

[yoitsmebenny]

I don't see how the LSAC could have any right to control something like that. It's just a different way of viewing something that's already there

What???? You can't understand why a company/organization has the right to control access to a proprietary application system (that someone else is paying for)?

I can access the site with my web browser. I can make a web browser to access the site. Why can't I make a clean interface that shows me the relevant data with a web browser underlying it?

Because they don't want you to? They want you to access through the website only. I don't understand your point. You are an authorized user with a certain level of access and that's what you get. Why should they allow you the ability to make an app so you can charge $.99 in the app store?

What I'm saying is that it's not in any way requiring a different level of access or doing anything that isn't already possible, and permissible. By your logic, it would be within their right to tell me I can't make an excel spreadsheet with my current statuses by logging in to each individual one and copying the relevant data? That's essentially all this would be - a front-end for something that already exists.

[r6_philly]

Because they don't want you to? They want you to access through the website only. I don't understand your point. You are an authorized user with a certain level of access and that's what you get. Why should they allow you the ability to make an app so you can charge $.99 in the app store?

What I'm saying is that it's not in any way requiring a different level of access or doing anything that isn't already possible, and permissible. By your logic, it would be within their right to tell me I can't make an excel spreadsheet with my current statuses by logging in to each individual one and copying the relevant data? That's essentially all this would be - a front-end for something that already exists.

By allowing to interface with their server you are using their resources. By you putting in info (that you obtained through an authorized method) in an excel sheet, you are not using their resources. The line is drawn by whose resource is being used for business and liability reasons. The company providing you the service dictate how you can use their service and the information it provides you through a user agreement. It doesn't have to make sense, you agreed to it by using it whatever it is. If you don't agree, you are welcome to apply on paper and wait for a letter.

[r6_philly]

You have to understand the difference between "the service" and "the information". They are not controlling "the information", they are controlling "the service". Contracts are funny like that future attorney.

[yoitsmebenny]

You have to understand the difference between "the service" and "the information". They are not controlling "the information", they are controlling "the service". Contracts are funny like that future attorney.

Yes, so pulling the "information" through the authorized "service" and aggregating the data on your own would be permissible.

App front end shows you the data. App back end is essentially a browser with a saved password.

[r6_philly]

You have to understand the difference between "the service" and "the information". They are not controlling "the information", they are controlling "the service". Contracts are funny like that future attorney.

Yes, so pulling the "information" through the authorized "service" and aggregating the data on your own would be permissible.

App front end shows you the data. App back end is essentially a browser with a saved password.

No. You don't understand "the service". They don't want to permit this. End of discussion. It is outside of the scope of the allowed service.

Well anyway, you don't think it make sense, but it doesn't have to be. They invested in the app, schools pay for it, and you are not allowed to use it that way.

[yoitsmebenny]

You have to understand the difference between "the service" and "the information". They are not controlling "the information", they are controlling "the service". Contracts are funny like that future attorney.

Yes, so pulling the "information" through the authorized "service" and aggregating the data on your own would be permissible.

App front end shows you the data. App back end is essentially a browser with a saved password.

No. You don't understand "the service". They don't want to permit this. End of discussion. It is outside of the scope of the allowed service.

Well anyway, you don't think it make sense, but it doesn't have to be. They invested in the app, schools pay for it, and you are not allowed to use it that way.

Enlighten me as to what exactly the service is then, if not a public web server allowing HTTPS traffic (which is what the app would be using).

[birD]

Would you guys have any interest in an Android/iPhone app for this? I was contemplating making one...

YES YES YES

[zworykin]

Enlighten me as to what exactly the service is then, if not a public web server allowing HTTPS traffic (which is what the app would be using).

It's a web server allowing HTTPS traffic as long as someone is doing it the slow, manual way and not automating it. You don't understand why they care if you're requesting the information manually each time or via a program? That's fine. You just have to recognize that they do care, not understand why. It doesn't matter why. It's their server, so we play by their rules. Otherwise, they'll take their ball and go home, and then where will we be?

[Aggiegrad2011]

In the LG and LR Bible, there is a distinction made between "THE LSAT WORLD" and "THE REAL WORLD." This is one of the cases of the former.