olutsaatavuus

An experimental web app that shows the current availability per store and history data for beers that are available at Alko's stores in Helsinki.

Tech stack

• Python scripts for fetching and updating availability data
• MongoDB for storing the availability data
• Node.js for the webapp
• Jade for templates and CSS

Running

First, configure your MongoDB settings to config.js and the python scripts. Then run fetch_availability.py to store the initial data for the products. After that, you can run update_availability.py daily to update the history data for the products.

The webapp requires some node.js packages that can be installed using

npm install

The webapp can be run using

node app.js

By default, the application runs on port 3000, so you can try it out at

http://localhost:3000

Live version of the webapp can be found at http://olutsaatavuus.herokuapp.com

Data format

Availability data is stored in the following format:

{
"_id": {
    "$oid": "52501d0c0b986219b59dc083"
},
"name": "Mikkeller Kiin Kiin",
"timestamp": "2013-10-05",
"amount": 310,
"productId": "730504",
"availability": [
    {
        "amount": "15",
        "store": "Helsinki Arabianranta Arabia",
        "history": [
            {
                "date": "2013-10-05",
                "amount": "15"
            },
            ...
        ]
    },
    ...
],
"history": [
    {
        "date": "2013-10-05",
        "amount": 310
    },
    ...
]
}