why python ? why not perl or ruby ? ;-)

upnishad

Holy crap! I don't even like Dominos but I'll test this out.

Joseph

This is for the true pizza addict or the true geek. I sir am both!

Can't wait to try it out! Can I track other peoples pizzas as well?

AskTheAdmin

Ah Sweet!

Wess

I agree that Python is a handy language and this is a really cute script, but let's not get crazy here; all this script does is fetch a URL and parse the results which you can do pretty easily in any language.

Troy F.

this is awesome!!!! I had to share it with my lead who has the "zen of python" printed and tacked onto his cubicle

navigator99

@AskTheAdmin: I have to agree with you statement. I couldn't even remember the last time I had Pizza.

BTW, If I am really hungry, why would I want to waste the little amount of energy left in me to crunch status updat e on my pc just so I can geek up my hunger more? I don't think so......I think the Nick python master/guru could cook this up for Dominos for a web interface product...where impatient customers can just try their orders..

mr_oshodi

This post contradicts previous LH posts regarding the need to exercise and not eat food near your keyboard. ;)

TunaFish

ummm dominoes already does this on their website when you order....

Sh3rpa

@Joseph: I'd second your statements if it weren't for Dominoes support of crazy right-wing politics.

yanni85

crazy? you mean delicious!!?

Maurik

For added anti-social goodness, there's also the Pizza party app which lets you order from the command line.

[www.beigerecords.com]

Rigo

Truly geeky and awesome.

I'm no big fan of Domino's, but I smell a thin-crust pizza in my future tonight just so I can try this script out.

Gotta admit that Domino's isn't my favorite pizza. Any chance of seeing a script like this for Papa John's? Or even Pizza Hut? I'd ask for Round Table first, but they don't even do online ordering...

HeartBurnKid

Am I missing something? Dominos has a real-time pizza order tracker on their website:

[www.dominos.com]

Quickfold

But wouldn't it have just been easier to do it through domino's website?

kalenoble

Yeah, thanks, but i'll just stick to submitting the order and leaving the status page open since it goes there automatically.

also it's kind of weird how all the employee names are followed by a number, like they're robots: "Marc 25 has put your pizza in the oven."

macinjosh

@yanni85: Not the case, really. When Tom Monaghan, Domino's founder, was involved, yes, he helped fund pro-life groups such as Operation Rescue and Right to Life. Domino's itself, the corporation, never did, but via his paycheck, yes, pizza sales did end up going towards that. However, Monaghan sold his empire to Bain Capital in 1998 for $1 billion, so no money from Domino's Pizza sales is going into Monaghan's pocket and thus via him into pro-life groups any longer.

Mike

That's pretty sweet. Now if it only worked for a pizza joint that I'd actually eat from, it'd be perfect!

OX4

@HeartBurnKid: Yeah, if Python's so great, you'd think it could get status updates from a company that doesn't even have an online presence... ;-)

Harlan

@Maurik: Why not "crazy delicious"? Red Vines, Mr. Pibb...

Harlan

To everyone who wasn't aborted as a fetus: aren't you glad your mother was one of those crazy, right-wing pro-lifers. ;D

(Now, go eat your pizza.)

GlennA

Wow!! I'm a Papa Johns guy myself, but I might have to try Dominoes to try this script out...

Gakusei

Does this work for Dominos is other countries?

spr33

Wow - even Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash" didn't figure people would be tracking their pizzas online as they're being made (not to mention a pizza ordering API.) Now all we need are smart boxes and Deliverators fearful of being on the wrong end of Uncle Enzo's switchblade.

RevWaldo

obsessive and a little nuts...i could see it coming in handy if the pie delivery boy isn't knocking on your door after 45 minutes, but this pizza tracking thing is one step from just going down there and mushing your face against the glass, hot breath steaming up the window and creaping out the employees...

stupidjerk

@Sh3rpa: yeah the link is right here: [www.dominos.com]

DeRo

What, no Twitter or Facebook interface ... worthless.

Joe Alien

Meh. Wake me up when the iPhone app is release.

Sean Robertson

i wonder if anyone can/has-already combined this week the pizza party command line script?

order and track your pizza in one fell swoop!

pizza party: [www.beigerecords.com]

jeremyflavored

I often order pizza online via PizzaPizza.ca

Neat trick: if you leave the "order confirmation" window open in Gmail then you will see gmail's javascript countdown of how many minutes until the pizza was ordered, which let's you know if you've hit the "40 minutes or its free" guarantee.

engtech

...and you don't have to get up until that cheese-covered saucer is at the door.

Hope the pizza guy doesn't have the same technology:
- Your customer has ordered pizza: 8:32.16
- Your customer resumed watching porn: 8:32.19
- Your customer has finished watching porn: 8:34.22
- Your customer is watching pizza status: 8:35.12
- Your customer is watching pizza status: 8:36.12
- Your customer is watching pizza status: 8:37.12
- Your customer is watching pizza status: 8:38.12
- Your customer is watching porn again: 8:38.16
- Your customer hears you ringing the door bell: 8:49.02
- Your customer finds his pants: 8:50.58
- Your customer takes delivery of the pizza: 8:51.58
- Your customer is looking for driver's tip in the couch cushions: 8:52.23
...

Zadaz

@GlennA: Ridiculous troll.

rscotta

@mr_oshodi: Guess who just ordered pizza!

AskTheAdmin

Ooops... the joke was PIZZA.PY but it's too late now. Meh.

Rodriguez

Even though the tracking system already exist, I think the guy couldn't pass on the opportunity to write something called

Get it? Get it?

Rodriguez

Cool... really awesome!

ICEBreaker

*awesome

Kin

Why does this matter?

Dominos are the guys who made it, right...Isn't it just using the dominos "pizza meter" that you can always access online?
Thanks anyway though. Ordering pizza online i sick.

Kin

@Rodriguez: It's never too late for PIZZA.PY!

It'd be great for march 14th!

orangepixistix

I'm not sure if this is a widespread phenomenon or just due to the city I was in, but the Domino's Pizza Tracker may be an elaborate ruse.

Some friends and I have a study hall between 10:30 and lunch, so we figured, "Hey, let's order a pizza today." The website said they opened at ten, so "We'll order online!"

So we watched in glee as the pizza tracker told us how "Ryan just put your pizza in the oven" and "Your pizza is waiting in a HotFresh Pouch for delivery." Based on the messages, the pizza should have arrived by 10:45.

I got a call at 11:10 from a guy saying the store opened at 11 and he just put the pizzas in the oven. You can't actually order when the store is closed, but the hours were posted wrong on the website and it let us do it early.

bobo_the_clown

Just thought I would respond to this thread since we ordered dominos for our entire office on friday to play withthe tracker system after reading this post.

Well, monday morning and the reviews are in: EVERYONE who ate the pizza on friday, spent saturday on the toilet. (and 2 people took a sick day.)

Thanks Dominos!

twonine

@twonine: Wow, true nerds. Weak systems that go outta wack over the littlest things.

I'd sue that Dominoes if the above isn't true.

da.m4nn