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A quick and easy way to do this on a Mac with Safari is as follows: Inspect Element, as described by "ctrl-click" or a two-finger click to simulate a right click of a mouse. Search the element with "productioniimages". Click on the code that shows "image/jpg" and you'll see all of the URL's in the right pane. This may work on other browsers, but I only tested it on a Mac. See the image below...
Let me start off by saying there is a video out there somewhere that does arguably a better job than what I'm posting here, and I'm just regurgitating what I learned from it originally. But I spent a good 15 minutes trying to find it again to no avail, only to follow it up and post the below content in the "waiting room" thread where it could easily become entangled in other garbage search engines would miss. A couple folks suggested I create a new thread with it so it's easier to find, and here you go... if somebody has a better thread title for searching I'll happily change it.
Also if anyone knows where that video is (it's a guy with a GT3 that walks through the process successfully, with pictures), please post it and I'll edit it into this original post.
So what I can do is type through a brief tutorial and throw in some screenshots- more for my own personal edification so I don't forget it again when I need to do it in a couple weeks. Also keep in mind, my car hasn't been produced yet so I actually don't have any images to show... but I have the same HTML code as everyone and I can at least show the process and it should be accurate.
1. Log into porsche.com with a browser (I used PC + chrome, the steps are probably similar on other OS/Browser combos but I haven't verified this. Not sure if it works on mobile).
2. Where you normally find your TYD info for your incoming car, right click then click "Inspect" (hitting F12 will also have the same effect). Note: you'll have to be in Stage 3: Your vehicle has been produced to realistically expect the images to be there, unlike what's in this screenshot:
3. This will open a new pane on the right, exposing the underlying code your browser is rendering. Click the "network" tab at the top (you may need to click an "arrow" to find it:
4. It should be blank or close to blank (if you hover over other sections of the page it might not be blank), but hit F5 to refresh, and it will populate with a bunch of content.
5. You'll likely have to scroll down to the bottom to find "orders?include-full-content=false" (I hovered over this in the screenshot to display the full URL).
6. Click on the orders?include-full-content=false line, then make sure you have the "Preview" tab selected on the right pane. There will be some content listed, you'll have to click on one of the triangles to display the sub-content under it. One of these lines will be productionImages- if there are images available, there will be URLs for you to copy/paste in a separate tab and see your pictures (obviously mine says null because my car isn't produced):
Hope that helps. If I was a stronger coder, I'd write a script to grab the photos directly from the URL and bypass this (relatively simple) process. Maybe someone with a developer background can do it relatively quickly, but it is kind of sketchy running scripts from randos on the Internet...
Has anyone tried to extract a "whole side body manufacturing photo"? I only see three photos on my TYD. It might be a recent change of the webpage that just change of contents. I do no see that exact link on network tab.
Is it possible to get the photos after the fact? E.g., after you pick up the car.
Depends, but really it falls back on when the app decides to move your "Track Your Dream" status to "My Porsche" status. For me this happened a few days after delivery. Maybe crawling around in the code a bit more could reveal something but frankly I don't have the time or really the expertise.
As I've said before, the trace amount of visibility you get through the manufacturing process through TYD today is only scratching the surface for potential, and could easily be extended into the ownership experience. Time will tell if Porsche decides to put some effort into evolving it, or just keeps going with this lackadaisical approach riddled with bugs and inconsistencies.
It is similar on the new interface, but the information is no longer in the "orders" file, but is in a different file that starts with "USM" followed by your commission number:
01-13-2023, 05:56 PM
