Retrieve price from other supermarkets

nz-supermarket / supermarket-deals-ror

Giving a go at creating a web application version of my supermarket deals project.

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Retrieve price from other supermarkets #122

Open Daniel-ltw opened 8 years ago

Daniel-ltw commented 8 years ago

Currently workable supermarket is pak and save.

Work has to be done, scraping the site and seeking out the right product for the product id and adding prices object with that product id.

nicholasold commented 8 years ago

Might be interesting to have another look and see if anyone has a public API? I tried New World just now though and it's crap - you'd have to parse a PDF :(

Daniel-ltw commented 8 years ago

@nicholasold Yup, I do not think they will be willing to offer an api to scrutinise themselves.

thomashorrobin commented 7 years ago

Are there any inadvertently public APIs? I'm thinking like the Metlink APIs that are open to the world by accident/misfortune (https://www.metlink.org.nz/api/v1/StopDepartures/4323). If you guys don't know of any I might have a hunt around.

Daniel-ltw commented 7 years ago

Feel free to give it a try.

Based on my understanding, most of them do not.