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DARTHTAMPON
02-05-2007, 10:23 AM
Ok I need a csv list of every car, make, model, etc. Is there a site out there that provides these lists for free? I understand that this may not be the bored to post this on but it seems the closest I could find.
Does anybody know of a site or can anyone email me such a list?
Tweak4
02-06-2007, 09:51 AM
Did you consider looking at car sites?
That aside, you're probably also going to have to be a little more specific... a list of every[/] make & model would be absolutely monsterous- there are at least 130 current mass-production automobile brands across the globe, not to mention numerous companies that don't exist any more, models that are no longer in production, cars not sold in US markets, super exotics with extremely low production numbers...
Do you want [i]every car, just cars currently in production, just cars commonly available in a particular market?
Regardless, chances are no one here is going to have the information just laying around, and if you do happen to find it, you're probably going to have to take it in whatever format you find it in and convert it to CSV yourself.
DARTHTAMPON
02-06-2007, 02:34 PM
finding the cars isnt an issue. I can find lists readily available the problem is trying to eliminate the tedius task of having to enter every (just common for starters) into the db by hand. I assume that these lists are available easily enough all over the net but getting that into the format I need for my db structure without having to enter every field in manualy.
Tweak4
02-07-2007, 01:26 PM
Your best bet is probably going to be to get a list in whatever form you can find it in, and then write a quick program in whatever language you're most comfortable in to read the list, parse it, and reformat the data into something you can import into your database.