Was just wondering why there isn’t a search option or am I just not seeing it? There are usually over 3,000 items and it’s not easy to scroll through everything
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- Never had time
- Something more important always came up
- We like you to browse so you’ll buy something else
- All of the above
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Click here for a secret!
When I’m looking for specific things or want to find something I saw before but don’t remember what category it was in, I come to the forums and do the following:
- Click the magnifying glass at the top right
If you don’t know what a magnifying glass is, it’s this thing:
- In the search bar, enter Deal Chatter and then your search terms with a + before each term ensuring to put a space before the + (e.g. Deal Chatter +dewalt +drill)
- Press Enter (or the equivalent on your device)
- Press More at the bottom of the list
- Change Sort By to Latest Post
- Click on the links to whatever you’re interested in and buy it if you want it/if still available
If you ever feel like being particularly disappointed by woot, just enter www.woot.com/random as a url in your internet browser and it’ll bring you to a random item you probably never wanted. Want extra disappointment? Enter that url again and it might show you another random item that you also probably don’t want. 
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It’s voice activated. Just say the password into your internet device’s listening hole, wait a minute, reboot, log-in, log-in again, and again, then reset your password, pick only bicycles, and ask for the thing you’re looking for.
The answer might show up here.
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CONGRATS YOU ARE THE BILLIONTH WOOTER TO ASK THIS QUESTION.
YOU WIN!
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How come nobody has EVER asked before?
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Well, for reasons cough cough netflix everyone knows the password.
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Why all the smart ass answers? Grow up, all I did was ask a question. I’ve never seen it asked before I’m not in the forum much. Hope you all are proud of yourselves for acting like an ass to someone in a forum meant for asking questions 
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Ha ha… I think the search thing is kinda a touchy subject around here. There is wootsearch.com (unaffiliated)… it works pretty well. Or you could always request an API key and write your own personal search tool like I did (if programming is your thing).
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Personally I like the 3rd party site wootstalker.com
But really jf, your question was asked many, many times before.
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Seems a little behind… and I get a uBlock Origin warning clicking on any of the links (which are pretty much all sold out items).
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Huh. I haven’t looked lately. I usually just use the forum thread search actually.
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Right on… yeah I do remember that one though. And it’s not super far behind, so maybe it still kinda works. Not sure about that weird redirect domain it’s going through though. Seems odd. I actually have a python script that checks the site every hour looking for keywords I put in a text file when I’m looking for something specific, then it just sends me a text if it finds a match. Wrote it years ago for some other daily deal sites, and finally copied it for woot! a few months ago. It’s pretty handy.
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Last time this came up, wootsearch was down whereas wootstalker was up. Woot is just so gangly with all the different items and sellouts…
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I do remember that happening just like a week ago when I was doing a quick search for some speakers. Probably wasn’t a woot! issue though… they never have server problems 
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Oh gosh no!
I gotta be honest though… if I ever lose my current job, I’d probably beg woot! to hire me. I love this place, and I love programming. I think I could maybe do a little good for them 
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Yep, this checks out.
Stick around and have some fun.
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