Open Supermarket is an open source database which aims to contain all prices, nutritional data and barcodes of all major supermarkets in The Netherlands.
There are some companies and apps that keep their own database with product data, but these are often not complete or it's completely inaccessible for third parties. Open Supermarket has a very specific goal: index all product data of the major Dutch supermarkets. If it achieves this goal, everyone will benefit: consumers can easily search for product data, developers can build apps with the API and existing databases can be expanded greatly.
We have to start somewhere, so let's tackle the biggest two first:
- Jumbo
- Albert Heijn
After these are finished, we can start working on other supermarkets like Coop, Aldi and Plus.
Right now contributing is not necessary, since Open Supermarket is still in its starting phase. Instructions regarding contributions will be detailed once the fundamentals are in place.