# REWE grocery ordering CLI

7 Hacker News commenters recommended REWE grocery ordering CLI and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Lets shoppers order REWE groceries from the command line, including piping in item lists. Caveat: it relies on a reverse-engineered API that may break.

## Why people recommend it

- Pipes item lists straight into orders (1 comments): "Just pipe the items through this CLI, and you can save a ton of work" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599598))
- Command-line approach to grocery ordering (1 comments): "I love the idea of a CLI for groceries." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598526))
- Good example of AI use (1 comments): "Serious good use of an AI." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599485))

## What people warn about

- Concern about easier API access (1 comments): "Cool project, but have mixed feelings about publishing ever easier ways to access this API." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598602))
- May break within weeks (1 comments): "Until it breaks in a few weeks." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598715))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "REWE grocery ordering CLI", https://hackerapproved.com/p/rewe-grocery-ordering-cli/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).