I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries

Re:I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries by toast0 on Saturday March 28, 2020 @10:36PM (#22715907)

Grocery delivery needs an address. You could pretty easily limit to one queued order per address, and limit order changes.

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Re:I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries by anbop on Sunday March 29, 2020 @02:24AM (#22716849)

One hack around address limits is to put in a unit number. 1 Park Avenue or whatever in Manhattan will have multiple units in it. And if you live in one of these units you can add a letter, like "Unit 522B" which will just get delivered to your unit 522.

Some companies have databases that know the layouts in each address but many do not.

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Re:I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries by toast0 on Sunday March 29, 2020 @12:19PM (#22720177)

And when the grocery delivery person comes and sees the addresses don't match, your address gets blacklisted.

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Re:I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries by anbop on Monday March 30, 2020 @01:19AM (#22725462)

Never happened to me. If there are no letters after unit numbers, and the delivery person sees a delivery for unit 522B, they'll leave it at 522.

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