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Exactly this. I did the same thing to find available camping spots in Hawaii because they are super difficult to get. Wrote a script that would query their "API" every 5 minutes and alert me if a spot became available anywhere.
Set something like this up for spots at Point Reyes and I'd be your first customer. Been trying for more than a year to snag a spot there.
Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon collection
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Re: Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon collection
#112This reminds me of a very similar case a decade ago I never figured out. Anyone remember Coupon Guy from 4chan in the 2009/2010 timeframe? You could make your own "Buy 1 Get 1 Free" or variant (for both N, "buy 1 get 10", or for kind of coupon, like "buy 1 get half off") Tv, Xbox 360, near anything etc. For Walmart, Best Buy, other chains etc. The tools were passed around stegonographically in the instruction images.…
>> The tools were passed around stegonographically in the instruction images Whoa, really? I remember the coupons flying around 4chan of course. Had no idea the tools were in the images.
There might have also been some steganographic images, but I know for sure I saw several of the image+archive kind around then.
Re: Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon collection
#113Anyone know if the dev lurks here? I'm wondering if there's a way to fork his code or add Kroger functionality to it. If im not mistaken Kroger is a safeway acquisition that is a popular grocer in the south/southwest of the USA. this would be very helpful for those of us without safeways.
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#114The problem came at checkout -- whenever I typed in my phone number (to apply the coupons from the loyalty account), the point-of-sale system would hang for tens of seconds while loading and then trying to apply all those coupons.
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#115This is cool but I'm not sure the purpose. I use the Safeway app every time I go to Safeway. I scan all the offers and just add the ones I want, which builds a shopping list for me. This gives me a list of things to buy but more importantly I know what's on sale . If I just added all the coupons I'd still have to scan the list of things to find what I want to buy, but then I'd have to track them elsewhere, because th…
I also use the Safeway app, which I think is one of the better apps out there, but sometimes they add in a coupon for something free. Unless I'm looking for that, I might miss it. I'd like to modify the script to look for and notify me when it finds them.
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#116Another tip: (area code) 867-5309 works for Safeway club card discounts in most area codes while piping tracking of your purchases to essentially null. Yes, Jenny’s number.
I think they recently cleared this. I tried 10+ area code variants just this weekend and none worked.
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Coupons have two purposes, which seem contrary, but are essential to understand how coupons are a form of advertising: 1) Saves you money (versus the retail price of the item) 2) Makes you more likely to buy the product on the coupon. Your use of coupons adheres to both value #1 (saves you money, because you know what's on sale) and value #2 (advertises products on sale, increasing your chances of buying them). This…
> ("pay-per-clip" :) You have a well-written and accurate comment, but I'm overwhelmingly distracted by the combination of the adorable "pay-per-clip" and the historied debate about how to handle an emoticon smiley at the end of a parenthetical. (conclusion: you're doing it wrong and are a terrible person!....but, "pay-per-clip"...tee-hee)
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Given that they're probably already tracking everything via my credit card number (whether I sign up for anything or not), I don't feel like much privacy is being given up. Though as a rule I don't bother with most of these programs, mainly due to the inconvenience factor. I've lost hope of maintaining my privacy through any actions I can take individually. A legislative solution is required.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're using a credit card the bank is only getting a receipt that shows the sum total of the transaction and not an itemized receipt. The club cards are consuming and tracking the data of the entire transaction.
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what does this do exactly?
> $(".grid-coupon-clip-button button").click(); > what does this do exactly? The command allows you to click all buttons in the page at once: • The dollar sign is an alias for jQuery [1]; • The text between double quotes is a CSS selector; • Select every DOM element with a “grid-coupon-clip-button” and “button” CSS class; • The thing at the end is a JavaScript function call which triggers an “onclick” event [2]; [1]…