REWE grocery ordering CLI
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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.
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.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Pipes item lists straight into orders
“Just pipe the items through this CLI, and you can save a ton of work”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)” Command-line approach to grocery ordering
“I love the idea of a CLI for groceries.”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)” Good example of AI use
“Serious good use of an AI.”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Concern about easier API access
“Cool project, but have mixed feelings about publishing ever easier ways to access this API.”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)” May break within weeks
“Until it breaks in a few weeks.”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)”
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5 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Just pipe the items through this CLI, and you can save a ton of work”
“Serious good use of an AI.”
“Until it breaks in a few weeks.”
“Cool project, but have mixed feelings about publishing ever easier ways to access this API.”
“I love the idea of a CLI for groceries.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.