Crawling a package tracking site with a bastardized binary search algorithm because the chinese store gave me an internal tracking number (which gets displayed, but can't be searched for) instead of the external one.

Never thought I'd do something like this.

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@Denian parcelsapp.com/en/tracking is pretty good at figuring out what service a tracking number belongs to

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@noiob I know the service - 4PX, if it matters. Problem is, they have a 12 digit tracking number you can enter on their page to track your delivery, and an additional 20 digit tracking number that they display when you search the other one, but which is useless on its own.

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