Who's Hank?
Hank.. is the name of a guy... who sounds (from his name) like he might be a car guy. He's also the name of a domain that, until recently, was available. 
Why are the CarsDirect results not filtered properly?
The guy who designed CarsDirect.com is clearly insane. If you want to cause yourself pain, go directly to their site and try doing a search - you'll see what I mean.
- You cannot filter for prices below $1000. The choices are somewhat random (which is also fun) but will generally be something like "$1000-$5000", "$6000-$11000", "$12000 and up". Since I can imagine many of you would like to find cars cheaper than $1000, if you enter (say) $0 to $2000 in HanksHelper, I take the lesser of two evils and show you all prices, rather than just $1000-$2000.
- Often the filters just don't work on the first pass. If you find you're getting every model and every year out there, this is probably the problem. In that case, just refresh the results by pressing the
button in the CarsDirect tab at the top. It should work for the rest of the session. - If you tried to use carsdirect.. directly.. you would find a bunch of other issues. For example, filter by years "1991 to 1989" OR "before 1988". Want to search Exactly 1988? Apparently you can't. Also, want to avoid clicking a thousand times to do anything? Too bad. Seriously, go there now and see how much better off you are with HanksHelper. ;)
Is it possible to show only results since a certain date, or filter the results in some other way?
OK.. basically, I can implement anything that you find at the cars sites themselves (autotrader, cars.com, etc). However, in order to respect the rights of these sites, HanksHelper does not actually parse their results in any way. It simply retrieves them and bunches them together in a nice, manageable way. Unfortunately, that means that I am limited to only providing the functionality they themselves offer.
To start with, I've implemented all the features that are common across all the sites (except for keywords, which aren't supported by Automotive.com, but are useful enough to make an exception). Adding features supported by only some sites is a little bit trickier, because it has to be set up in such a way that Hanks is still easy to understand and still works with the other sites. I will consider these features over time though.
Why don't my keywords work on Automotive.com?
Unfortunately Automotive.com doesn't support keyword searches. Sadly I'm limited in what I can do by what the sites themselves provide. (See the point above.)
I have another question that's not listed here!
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