Mysupermarket closing - alternatives?

janet278

carpy said:

janet278 said:

@drspa44 Shelfscraper seems great so far! When will we be able to use it?

??? it can be used!

Prices are not accurate though. A wasted journey proved this!

drspa44

janet278 said:

carpy said:

janet278 said:

@drspa44 Shelfscraper seems great so far! When will we be able to use it?

??? it can be used!

Prices are not accurate though. A wasted journey proved this!

Which products did you find were incorrectly priced? Is it possible they recently changed?

janet278

drspa44 said:

janet278 said:

carpy said:

janet278 said:

@drspa44 Shelfscraper seems great so far! When will we be able to use it?

??? it can be used!

Prices are not accurate though. A wasted journey proved this!

Which products did you find were incorrectly priced? Is it possible they recently changed?

Veggie/vegan food mainly, but now that I look for the specific item that I went to the shop for, I see it is correctly priced, so not much help to give it as an example now! Also the search has to be so product specific, can it be made less so? Eg. If I want to find Beyond Meat patties, if I type in just that, it finds nothing, if I type in Beyond Meat Plant Based Patties, it finds what I am looking for.

janet278

drspa44 said:

janet278 said:

drspa44 said:

janet278 said:

carpy said:

janet278 said:

@drspa44 Shelfscraper seems great so far! When will we be able to use it?

??? it can be used!

Prices are not accurate though. A wasted journey proved this!

Which products did you find were incorrectly priced? Is it possible they recently changed?

Veggie/vegan food mainly, but now that I look for the specific item that I went to the shop for, I see it is correctly priced, so not much help to give it as an example now! Also the search has to be so product specific, can it be made less so? Eg. If I want to find Beyond Meat patties, if I type in just that, it finds nothing, if I type in Beyond Meat Plant Based Patties, it finds what I am looking for.

At the moment, searching works just on the text you type in as a single string. It has to be fully contained in the product name. As I say, this was just a project I've done at home and as there's no money involved, I have to be careful not to make the server requirements too costly. Intelligent searching is on the todo list.

I appreciate that - thanks. 

KxMx

Latest Deals are developing a supermarket price comparison tool:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2955122771380775&substory_index=0&id=1493893274170406

drspa44

KxMx said:

Latest Deals are developing a supermarket price comparison tool:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2955122771380775&substory_index=0&id=1493893274170406

They have posted a screenshot as well. I'm glad there's now some real competition. Hopefully it works just as well for generic, unbranded food as well.

https://www.facebook.com/LatestDealsHQ/photos/a.1555304504695949/2955308011362251/?type=3&theater

drspa44

jnm21 said:

drspa44 said:

Since the announcement about MySupermarket closing, I've been spending my free time working on a replacement. It is designed to be extremely basic so it can work on any phone without using much data (unlike MS). As it's just a website, there is nothing to install. Please let me know what you think.

http://www.shelfscraper.co.uk/

Hopefully MySupermarket will come back in one way or another, but this might help in the meantime.

Thanks.  Example issue - "actimel" returns https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/product/details/actimel-original-01%-fat-yogurt-12x100g at £2.50, but clicking the link shows £3.75

EDIT Sorry can't seem to select no signature on new site.

Thanks. This was the price as of around 7pm yesterday. Sainsburys has now been refreshed and this product shows the correct price now.

KxMx

I doubt it'll be on MySupermarket level, but it's a start and better than nothing

drspa44

They have released a preview: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.latestdeals.app&hl=en_GB

Had a look at the code to see how it works. In the background it goes to each supermarket's website and searches for your query. This means that it should be good at showing relevant results (e.g. searching for strawberries should not return strawberry scented shampoo) and they will be up to date prices. However because it will only look at the first page of results, if you search for something quite general like potatoes, it won't be able to show all of them and the list is unsorted. Shouldn't be too hard for them to improve it though. I'm glad there is someone dedicated to making this happen full time!

The reason it is only app-based and there isn't a website is because of security features in web browsers. Unless website X specifically allows it, website Y is not allowed to send a request to website X in the background. This poses no security risk in mobile apps, so is allowed, but website X might not like it.

Jlawson118

I used to use it more for seeing if certain items were in stock anywhere if I hadn't seen them for a while, it was great! Going to miss it but I'm sure there'll be a plan somewhere for somebody to do the same sort of thing again