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Offline Indianna

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Re: PDFs online at playmobil.com
« Reply #20 on: September 30, 2014, 20:28:28 »
. . . Plan count = 1841.

Now up to 1870!  8-)
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Re: PDFs online at playmobil.com
« Reply #21 on: September 30, 2014, 21:16:33 »
Which ones are the latest additions?

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Re: PDFs online at playmobil.com
« Reply #22 on: October 02, 2014, 19:14:35 »
Here is my list of 1774 sets with building plans currently available on playmobil.com This is already out of date as new plans are being added all the time, but if it's useful to anyone, here it is! All sets with building instructions (pdf)

If they are useful, here are PlaymoDB set lists (too many sets for one list, so I have split it according to the first digit of the set number)

sets beginning 3
sets beginning 4
sets beginning 5
sets beginning 6
sets beginning 7 or 9

Here is a spreadsheet version (CSV): PC version CSV MAC version CSV

That's awesome, Graham - can you tell us how you did it?

Pure slog! I haven't got a fancy bit of software to 'scrape' data, but I did start with a list of the first 900 or so sets.
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Re: PDFs online at playmobil.com
« Reply #23 on: October 02, 2014, 19:44:36 »
Thanks GrahamB!

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Re: PDFs online at playmobil.com
« Reply #24 on: October 04, 2014, 02:09:18 »
thank you Heather & GrahamB  :wave: ...this will be my PM plans&parts holy grail   :love:

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Re: PDFs online at playmobil.com
« Reply #25 on: October 07, 2014, 22:14:08 »

. . . Pure slog! I haven't got a fancy bit of software to 'scrape' data, but I did start with a list of the first 900 or so sets.

That is an impressive piece of work, Graham!  Thanks for sharing it with us.   :hatoff:
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Re: PDFs online at playmobil.com
« Reply #26 on: October 09, 2014, 02:10:52 »
Dear GrahamB (& Playmofriends here).....your CSV list(thanks again for sharing! :love:) left out 3320, 3328, 3367, 3368, 3980, 3981 & 3982 pdf files which were available from their US website quite long ago. ;)

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Re: PDFs online at playmobil.com
« Reply #27 on: October 09, 2014, 21:53:40 »
I don't see 3367 and 3368 neither in US nor in DE site... ???

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Re: PDFs online at playmobil.com
« Reply #28 on: October 10, 2014, 07:59:40 »
sorry tigana123;
look for 3996 & 3993 respectively,
maybe its my fault for recording the alternative numbers  :-[

but tigana123, did you find the others I listed above?

sorry everyone, hoping to be helpful, I might have created some anxiety....I manually compared GrahamB's long list and don't trust my tired eyes, if some of the numbers I pointed out are indeed online...should I continue to list more? (I'm continuing to compare with GrahamB's list whenever I have more time)

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Re: PDFs online at playmobil.com
« Reply #29 on: October 10, 2014, 10:34:49 »
Yes, I can see 3996 and 3993 in the DE site. The others exist as well. I didn't compare the list that GrahamB provided, I was just checking if there are any PDFs that I have not included in my (own) list or missed.

Attached below is a list of available PDFs in the DE site as of today (10 Oct 2014). I didn't do any editing, just paste it as it comes after copying form the site...