Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.
In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.
Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..
It would be nice to be able to bring to light the price gouging that is taking place in Canada with regards to grocery stores.
Firefox will basically hand you want you need to interact with APIs, here is an example in Powershell of getting a milk price from Superstore for a specific store
The real question is with that apikey. I didn’t see it change across browsers or anything. Is it hardcoded? Does it change regularly? Someone could probably find out if they did enough digging
Firefox will basically hand you want you need to interact with APIs, here is an example in Powershell of getting a milk price from Superstore for a specific store
$milk = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "https://api.pcexpress.ca/product-facade/v4/products/20658152_EA?lang=en&date=16092023&pickupType=STORE&storeId=1511&banner=superstore" ` -UserAgent "Mozilla/5.0 Gecko/20100101 Firefox/117.0" ` -Headers @{ "Origin_Session_Header" = "B" "DNT" = "1" "Business-User-Agent" = "PCXWEB" "x-apikey" = "C1xujSegT5j3ap3yexJjqhOfELwGKYvz" } $milk.offers.price.valueThe real question is with that apikey. I didn’t see it change across browsers or anything. Is it hardcoded? Does it change regularly? Someone could probably find out if they did enough digging