{"id":1348,"date":"2012-10-25T13:12:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T13:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2014-03-13T11:36:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T11:36:18","slug":"get-15-student-discount-from-the-apple-store-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=1348","title":{"rendered":"Get 15% Student Discount from the Apple Store Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most HE institutions in the UK have a discount with Apple. \u00a0Apple have a URL of each one and to access the sotre you normally need to be on the Campus.<\/p>\n

However if you go directly to the store URL then you bypass Apples Campus checks.<\/p>\n

Here is come BASH code to scan the Apple Campus sites and report back on which URL is for Which\u00a0institution.<\/p>\n

#!\/bin\/bash<\/span>
\n
\n# Apple Discount scanner<\/span>
\n# By Daniel Shane<\/span>
\n
\n# This script does a simple scan of the Apple Discount URL<\/span>
\n# They startat 600 and so far go up to around 866<\/span>
\n
\nscanstart<\/span>=600<\/span>
\nscanend<\/span>=900<\/span>
\n
\nwhile<\/span> [<\/span> $scanstart<\/span> -lt<\/span> $scanend<\/span> ]<\/span>
\ndo<\/span>
\ncurl http:\/\/<\/span>store.apple.com\/<\/span>uk_edu_5000$scanstart<\/span> -o<\/span> \/<\/span>tmp\/<\/span>curl.txt &><\/span> \/<\/span>dev\/<\/span>null
\ndiscount<\/span>=`<\/span>grep<\/span> -i<\/span> "s.prop2 = "<\/span> \/<\/span>tmp\/<\/span>curl.txt |<\/span> sed<\/span> 's\/&amp;\/\\&\/g'<\/span> |<\/span> cut<\/span> -d<\/span> : -f<\/span> 2<\/span> |<\/span> cut<\/span> -c<\/span> 2<\/span>- |<\/span> rev<\/span> |<\/span> cut<\/span> -c<\/span> 3<\/span>- |<\/span> rev<\/span>`<\/span>
\nif<\/span> [<\/span> "$discount<\/span>"<\/span> !<\/span>= "US Consumer"<\/span> ]<\/span>
\nthen<\/span>
\necho<\/span> "http:\/\/store.apple.com\/uk_edu_5000$scanstart<\/span>\/"<\/span> is for<\/span> "$discount<\/span>"<\/span> |<\/span> tee<\/span> -a<\/span> ~\/<\/span>Desktop\/<\/span>DiscountList.txt
\nfi<\/span>
\nscanstart<\/span>=$(<\/span>(<\/span> $scanstart<\/span> + 1<\/span> )<\/span>)<\/span>
\ndone<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most HE institutions in the UK have a discount with Apple. \u00a0Apple have a URL of each one and to access the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info-on-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}