Update to new billa.at online store

[devmbm]

Billa.at was updated sometime last week (KW41) which has caused all price tracking and links to be broken. Unique URLs in the new store no longer match the previous one.

[flobauer]

Hey, do we know the exact changes?

As I see billa:

• no API that allows to request all products at once (at least not "full")
• maximum of 1000 results can returned back on searches
• one letter searches are still possible
• Category connection might be harder

any other thoughts?

[flobauer]

I would probably go through the alphabet and do searches for each letter and map the products by ID to have a final list in the end. Maybe for the more common letters I would search for more than 1000 entries via pagination.

[devmbm]

I cannot say, sorry, I am not a developer myself. But my observation is that items seem to be named the same as before.

[flobauer]

Category Search: https://shop.billa.at/api/categories/search/e?storeId=00-10

Product Search: https://shop.billa.at/api/products/search/e?storeId=00-10

The billa products where taken from the product list itself I think, the search per category could also work:

Category search can be done via category slug provided in the category search result: api/categories/[slug]/products

Example: https://shop.billa.at/api/categories/aepfel-birnen-und-trauben-13753/products?page=0&sortBy=relevance&pageSize=24&storeId=00-10

[flobauer]

I do some experiments in https://github.com/badlogic/heissepreise/pull/165