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Show HN: Cheap Coke – Helping Australians shop based on the price of a Coke
- benkaiser 6y agoHey Hackernews, I always had a fun idea of making a website tell me which of Australias two biggest supermarkets to shop at based on the price of a Coke, but only once I started did I realize how complicated it was. The supermarkets themselves don't make the data easy to scrape, so instead I opted to scrape a third-party site they partner with to list their promotional prices. Since the price can change from region to region in Australia, the scipt that gathers the data (via a github action) has to scrape every single suburb that a store exists. All the source code is available on github here: https://github.com/benkaiser/cheap-coke https://github.com/benkaiser/cheap-coke