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Expand to other states? #12

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GUI opened this issue Feb 21, 2021 · 1 comment
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Expand to other states? #12

GUI opened this issue Feb 21, 2021 · 1 comment

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GUI commented Feb 21, 2021

I've had a number of requests from people looking for this type of service in other states. The code is all open source (albeit in need of cleanup and documentation), so theoretically others could run this stack for other states. However, if we can get things running smoothly in Colorado first and then if there hasn't been any activity from other people running similar things in other states, this is something I could maybe explore. While there's obviously some regional and local chains that will differ in other states, just having CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Albertsons (and all its sub-brands), and Kroger (and all its sub-brands) could cover a lot of pharmacies in a lot of states right out of the gate. This would obviously be a lot more scraping (which I'm trying to do in a courteous way), so I'd need to think about how to best distribute the scraping (so stuff still gets updated frequently, but still throttling things to try and be courteous).

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GUI commented Feb 27, 2021

It's rough, but for some of the national chains where this was easy-ish this is now implemented and live: https://vaccine-finder.nickm.org The chains currently coded to scan nationally:

  • CVS
  • Walgreens
  • Walmart
  • Sam's Club (except this is broken due to anti-bot stuff)
  • Albertons/Safeway (except this is broken due to new anti-bot stuff)

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