When the state runs things
I live in yet another state that controls the liquor sales. PA is the other state. After talking with a coworker about some booze they showed me the state liquor store website. Turns out that they post the prices, stock and location of all the booze they carry.
After a night of scripting I have 2 scripts. The first one finds the brands and prices. The second one finds the quantities of each brand and what store they are at. Then it stores it in a mongodb (many reasons i am using mongo but that is not for here)
So after unscrewing dreamhost with rvm I finally have these scripts running on my server. But you say "big deal becker. what can you do with that data?". To which I say ..
The store at PORT ANGELES 1331 E FRONT STREET PT ANGELES WA 98362-4616 currently has 176 .75 liter bottles in stock of MACNAUGHTONS 36 MTH CDN TRAVELER which by the way is 80 proof! It is being sold at 12.45 including tax. Its not on sale currently...
I have more data but its getting late and my screens are ready to run all night.
After a night of scripting I have 2 scripts. The first one finds the brands and prices. The second one finds the quantities of each brand and what store they are at. Then it stores it in a mongodb (many reasons i am using mongo but that is not for here)
So after unscrewing dreamhost with rvm I finally have these scripts running on my server. But you say "big deal becker. what can you do with that data?". To which I say ..
The store at PORT ANGELES 1331 E FRONT STREET PT ANGELES WA 98362-4616 currently has 176 .75 liter bottles in stock of MACNAUGHTONS 36 MTH CDN TRAVELER which by the way is 80 proof! It is being sold at 12.45 including tax. Its not on sale currently...
I have more data but its getting late and my screens are ready to run all night.
