Dear GE, please add value to SupraKey

In the ARMLS (Arizona Regional Multi-Listing Service) we use the great GE solution called SupraKey.  This little device allows Realtors to enter homes to show prospective buyers without making extra stops.  It also provides a digital trail (so to speak) of which agents went into which homes when.  This digital trail is available to the listing agent on-line.  Today I was trying to do some research on which agents are doing multiple showings and which listings are getting the most activity.  Simple queries if you use databases and some nice queries.  This is where I start being disappointed…

The only queries you can do with the on-line system is by date and/or listing.  So then to answer my questions above, I have to manually do the work.  Okay, did that a couple of times, have better things to do (like write blog posts or work with clients).  So I pulled out my handy dandy little programming language, Perl (sorry Keith, still not efficient enough in Ruby yet) and start coding away.  I create little objects of showings and start to gather and reformat the data to go into a database so I can write so automated scripts.  Okay, I work out the details of the data, and the tables that I will be creating (4 of them after normalization).

Now comes the part that really miffs me, there is no way (other than copy/paste) data from the site.  Do download option, the email sends the data in PDF format, not really workable there.  Using CURL has become too much of a challenge with the access controls in place.  So this is where I would like GE to help out, give me an API (that’s really the ultimate goal), but short of that, give me a download option.  Anything but the copy a screen and paste it to a text file.  I’d really like to automate this work, generate some reports, hey maybe send out some feedback eMails automatically.  Lots of things become possible with an API.

So, someone at GE in the SupraKey division, can you please help me out?

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