Knowledge Base

I have simplified how I check the sale paper for a store in my area, Publix, by scraping the website and parsing the useful output myself. Check out my project aptly named coupons. It supports two stores from the SouthernSavers.com website, although a store is really just a uuid so it'd be trivial to add the other ones the site supports.

To use coupons.py, you specify a store and optionally a search string in lowercase to filter the sale items.

$ ./coupons.py --store publix --search candy | jq
INFO(get_cached_contents): using cache /home/bgstack15/.cache/coupons/publix_2022-09-01.json
{
  "Publix Ad: 8/31-9/6 or 9/1-9/7": {
    "Buy One Get Ones": [
      "Hershey's Chocolate Candy Bars or Reese's Peanut Butter Cups or Big Cup or Kit Kat, 6 ct, at $6.99 <small>($3.49)</small>"
    ]
  },
  "Extra Savings Flyer: 8/27-9/9": {
    "Grocery": [
      "Candy or Cookie Pop Popcorn, 5.25 oz, $3.50"
    ]
  }
}

I'm going to put this in a cron job now and then I'll never have to read the salepaper again; I'll just scan it automatically for the things I want!