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Automated Grocery Shopping

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I want to share a project I worked on a while ago, that I still use from time to time.  Basically all my grocery shopping is done at Kolonial.no, which is a Norwegian online grocery store that has an api for the shopping cart and products.  I am a cheapskate in many fields, including grocery shopping. And how I shop is somewhat robotic, very predictable and some might say boring and uninspired. But the thought process when I select items, can easily be automated, so I did. The code is on my github .  All the docs are there, so I won't bore you with that here.  But the idea and process is quite simple: I need eggs. Eggs are not a product. Eggs are a category of products . So my shopping list in this code is the category ID of eggs at kolonial.no.  On the same line in my shopping list I can also specify words that should or should not appear in the product name. For example "frittgående" should be in the name. (Norwegian for "free range") Next filter is whether or...