Zetaphor@zemmy.cctoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Is there any closed source android app that you wish had a good open source alternative?English
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7 months agoBecause grocery stores don’t make that data accessible to third party developers, otherwise someone would do what you’re suggesting and they’d risk you shopping elsewhere.
Go ahead and try scraping an arbitrary list of sites without an API and let me know how that goes. It would be a constant maintenance headache, especially if you’re talking about anything other than the larger chains that have fairly standardized sites