I've noticed the The Grocer telegram channel hasn't updated since start of November and The Warehouse hasn't for ages.
Are these still being looked after or abandoned?
The Grocer and The Warehouse Telegram. Does It Still Update?
PVA on 06/11/2024 - 21:00
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Hey, thanks for the tag!
Sorry about that, looks like we had some technical changes late last week - The Grocers should be updating again now 🙂
Can always ping me here or via Telegram (contact details in the pinned message) if you notice anything is up.
Is the Grocers Twitter page supposed to be updated or is that deprecated? It hasn't been updated since January this year.
Ahhhh Twitter… 😔
That's a tricky one - there are a couple of factors at play.
The richest man in the world wants US $5,000/month for full API access, which, you know, isn't going to happen for something that's just provided for fun/free.
There was a free plan added a bit later with rather strict limits - 17 API requests per day, 100 per month. I'd done some work to get it back up and running when the changes were first introduced (limiting read calls, restricting it to items with larger quantities etc.), but then there were more recent changes requiring new API keys and other updates (back in Jan, I guess), which I hadn't had time to look into further.
Things seem to have settled a bit recently - I've had a quick look today and it appears they might actually be increasing some of these limits soon, so who knows.
I miss the Twitter feed (especially the threading for historical context) and it worked pretty well, particularly in the early days, so I've gone through and refreshed the access and made those couple of changes so it should hopefully start tweeting again. All that said, the effort-to-reward ratio of maintaining it going forward is a bit hard to justify if it keeps breaking.
I also see that the bot friendly Mastodon server we moved to when the API limits first hit is sadly shutting down. It's still posting for now, but you can probably consider the Mastodon version deprecated.
Thank you. I did notice it was working again today. Cheers.
my bot is still running but the codebase is extremely outdated and i kind of cant be bothered to update it, still surprised that it actually finds stuff sometimes.
spending like $10/mo on the server, with only like 50-100 people seeing the messages (out of 900 members), additionally, amazon warehouse deals have decreased dramatically in frequency and quality, i just don't really see its worth keeping up.
I am also not allowed to put affiliate links on the messages to recoup money spent on hosting, or ozb will remove me from the megathread.
I also have lost the telegram account that the channel is owned by, so i cant make edits except through the bot api (which is pretty limited for channel admin stuff)
may revive someday, maybe not, not really sure..
just use the grocers :)
(code is open source btw, if you want to host your own, pm me for github link)
Thanks for the reply. Appreciated your effort when it was working.
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