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-- Startdate: 2022-09-08 -- Title: README for coupons
-- Project: coupons
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# README for coupons
This project exists to make it easy to query the current sale papers for select grocery stores, including specifically Publix. Frontends include cli and a webapp (python flask).
## Upstream
This project's upstream is at <https://bgstack15.ddns.net/cgit/coupons>.
## Features
* simple cli
* simple wsgi web app with minimal javascript
* caching of results for faster lookups during the same day
## Alternatives
Visiting <https://southernsavers.com> manually, or each store's website.
I previously started using selenium (see [aux/ads1.py](aux/ads1.py) in initial commit) but that was not necessary.
## Reason for existence
To simplify and automate searching for items currently on sale.
## Using
### Command line interface
Basic usage is pretty simple. You need to specify a store at a minimum. When the script visits the webpage, it will cache the file to `$XDG_CACHE_DIR/coupons/` to reduce the amount of work needed during the same day.
./coupons.py --store "publix" --search "candy"
To use standard input from a fully-cached javascript response from the website, you could run this.
<~/.cache/coupons/publix_2022-09-01.json ./coupons.py --stdin --clean --search "candy" --pretty
An already-cleaned json file would not need the **--clean** flag. But the cached values are the exact javascript+json payload from the server.
See also `./coupons.py --help`.
### Web app
Run a simple dev environment.
FLASK_APP=coupons_web.py FLASK_DEBUG=True flask run --host='0.0.0.0'
For a more robust production environment, drop the `extra/wsgi-coupons.conf` apache config into your apache httpd conf directory and configure it as documented in there.
### Visiting the web app with curl
$ curl http://d2-03a/coupons/search/dog --header 'Accept: application/json' ; printf '\n'
[{"publix": {"Publix Weekly Ad: 9/7-9/13 or 9/8-9/14": {"Buy One Get Ones": ["Healthy Hide Good'n Fun Dog Treats Triple Flavor Ribs or Wings, 12 oz, at $11.99 <small>($5.99)</small>"]}, "Unadvertised Deals: 9/7-9/13": {"Pet Care": ["Blue Dry Dog Food, 5 lb, $14.99"]}, "Extra Savings Flyer: 8/27-9/9": {"Meat": ["Greenfield Natural Meat Co. Bratwurst 12 oz, Hot Dogs 13 oz or Lunchmeat, 7 oz, $4"]}}}, {"ingles": {"Ingles Ad & Coupons: 9/7-9/13": {"Meat": ["Gwaltney Hot Dogs, 12 oz, $1.48"]}}}, {"food lion": {"Food Lion Ad & Coupons: 9/7-9/13": {"Pet Care": ["Rachael Ray Nutrish Dry Dog Food, 5.5-6 lb, $10.99"]}}}]
$ curl -X POST http://d2-03a/coupons/search/ --data 'mayo' --header 'Accept: application/json' ; printf '\n'
[{"publix": {"Publix Weekly Ad: 9/7-9/13 or 9/8-9/14": {"Buy One Get Ones": ["Duke's Mayonnaise, 30-32 oz, at $5.23 <small>($3.11)</small>", "Hellmann's Mayonnaise, 15-20 oz, at $5.75 <small>($2.87)</small>"]}, "Extra Savings Flyer: 9/10-9/23": {"Grocery": ["Hellmann's Mayonnaise, 24-30 oz, $3.99", "Hellmann's Mayonnaise, Spicy Mayonnaise or Vegan Dressing & Spread, 11.5 oz, $3", "Primal Kitchen Mayonnaise, 12 oz, $8.99", "Sir Kensington's Special Sauce or Chipotle Mayonnaise, 12 oz, $4"]}}}]
The API accepts a few URL parameters, including `&date=YYYY-MM-DD` to use that day's cached results (it does not time travel for you) and `?nocache=1`.
## Improvements
* Add flask-correct logger mechanisms?
## Dependencies
For the web app:
* apache with `mod_wsgi`
* python3-flask
## Building or changing
Only a few stores are currently supported. The southernsavers.com website lists other stores that are probably drop-in capable. To learn the widgets.json path needed, use Developer Tools in a web browser to capture the full widgets.json path and add it to the **stores_url** dict.
## References
* Developer Tools in Firefox
* [stackbin](https://bgstack15.ddns.net/cgit/stackbin/)
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