danslimmon / oscar

Scan your coffee's barcode, and it'll get added to your grocery list
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Add support for Openfoodfacts.org #53

Closed CloCkWeRX closed 8 years ago

CloCkWeRX commented 8 years ago

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This might be worth changing to be the default instead of digit-eyes - while it will mean less coverage in the short term, there are no API keys and setup is a lot easier.

Combined with their android app; adding detailed new food items is pretty easy.

It also gives back a lot of structured data around the barcode; so we can lean on it's categories to determine if something is a kind of Milk; rather than rules for example.

Leaving this open for discussion, will merge in a few days.