Would this work for checking if delivery is possible?

[jkatsnelson]

I have a use case where I want to see if a product will become available for delivery. I'd like to check it every day. Do you think the existing functionality would cover this somehow, or should I add something? Any sense for how it would be done? Happy to add it if so.

[Ephigenia]

The stock sub-command enables searching for multiple stores and products and could use the exit-code as a hint for all (or just a single) products being available or not. I’m not sure if that would be good practice for a CLI tool to misuse the exit code that way.

That’s why I’d suggest using an additional CLI tool for checking the output of the stock command as it gives you much more flexibility on how you want to check what.

So for simply checking if a single product is availble you could use the json output and jq (one of the standard tools for json processing in the cli) to check the availability.stock value like so:

npm run start -s -- stock --store=155 --reporter json S69022537 | jq '.[] | .availability | .stock > 0'

I had to modify a little part in the response processing that stock actually becomes a number and jq can run the comparison. Please use the latest version of ikea-availability-checker.

The other part of your question is for checking in an interval. I’d suggest using common CLI tools for that too like watch, cron. In case you’re on OSX there are also ways to [trigger a Desktop Notification](https://code-maven.com/display-notification-from-the-mac-command-line. There are even tools for that on each operation system I guess.

I hope this may help you.

Maybe parts of this should be added to the README.md - what do you think?

[jkatsnelson]

Thanks for the response :-D

Actually, I think I didn’t ask my question very well. I should simplify to: How would you go about checking if something is available to ship vs available in a store or many stores? Do you happen to know if you can basically extrapolate that if it’s in stock in a country in some store, then it is in stock to ship?

And then, I was saying if there was any functionality around whether a product is available to ship worth putting in the CLI, I’d be happy to help with that.

Maybe that makes more sense? :)

[Ephigenia]

Unfortunately, the IOWS API only provides information about how many items of a product are available in a specific store. There also was a similar request like yours in the issues: #8

It might work with the newer API here: https://api.ingka.ikea.com/cia/availabilities/ru/de?itemNos=20295930&expand=StoresList,Restocks which returns availabilities for a single product in all of a countries stores. There needs to be additional work to reverse engineer which parts of the response result in which status of which store.

I guess the important fields of the response body are:

• availabilities[].availableForCashCarry
• availabilities[].availableForClickCollect
• availabilities[].buyingOption.cashCarry.availability
• availabilities[].buyingOption.quantity

{
  "availabilities": [
  {
      "availableForCashCarry": true,
      "availableForClickCollect": true,
      "buyingOption": {
        "cashCarry": {
          "availability": {
            "probability": {
              "thisDay": {
                "colour": {
                  "rgbDec": "0,255,0",
                  "rgbHex": "00FF00"
                },
                "messageType": "HIGH_IN_STOCK"
              },
              "updateDateTime": "2021-02-22T05:43:37.085Z"
            },
            "quantity": 14,
            "restocks": [
              {
                "earliestDate": "2021-02-23",
                "latestDate": "2021-02-23",
                "quantity": 31,
                "reliability": "HIGH",
                "type": "INTERNAL",
                "updateDateTime": "2021-02-22T05:43:37.085Z"
              }
            ],
            "updateDateTime": "2021-02-22T05:43:37.085Z"
          },
          "range": {
            "inRange": true
          },
          "unitOfMeasure": "PIECE"
        },
        "clickCollect": {
          "range": {
            "inRange": true
          }
        },
        "homeDelivery": {
          "range": {
            "inRange": true
          }
        }
      },
      "classUnitKey": {
        "classUnitCode": "063",
        "classUnitType": "STO"
      },
      "itemKey": {
        "itemNo": "20295930",
        "itemType": "ART"
      }
    }
]

[Ephigenia]

I’ve created another discussion to reverse-engineer the api: #36