Malaysian shipping quote widget revisited
December 31st, 2010 | by Sean |A lot of the shipping quotation stuff that I did using Pos Malaysia’s rates has been broken while I’ve been stumbling through getting spider.my updated.
To add the widget to your own web page, just copy and paste the code from below, and next time you load the page you should see the widget:
<div id="mySpiderShippingWidget"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://spider.my/static/js/shippingwidget.js"></script></div>
I’m currently finalising the detail on the API, and should have a couple of shipping modules up soon for Zen-Cart and osCommerce which will give quotes for Pos-Malaysia’s Pos Laju, Surface Parcel and Air Parcel for documents and parcels. Like the old shipping modules these will also be free, but only for very occasional use.
What I’m intending to do is to offer a paid ‘API key’ to heavier users. The API key will be less than RM50 per year and will help me cover the cost of hosting. Until the API key scheme is finalised, access to the shipping quotations will be free and unlimited.
(Update 11th Jan 2011: Widget has been off and on for some time while I’ve been beating the API into shape. It should continue to work in its present form for the foreseeable future. Check out the spider.my API to see what the widget uses for shipping data. There is a RateLimit in the API at the moment of about 50 responses per hour. That rate will be reduced when I get the APIKEY interface finalised.)