ikea-availability-checker

Sometimes there is a high demand for products that are unavailable in the IKEA online store and even in the locations. So here’s a script that makes it easy to check the availability of a list of products and locations.

Please report any bugs related to this alpha in the issues: https://github.com/Ephigenia/ikea-availability-checker/issues

Features

• supports listings from >400 IKEA stores worldwide
• get product stock amount for a whole country or single store in JSON, Text and CLI-Table format
• support for many countries:
  • at, au, be, ca, ch, cn, cz, de, dk, es, fi, fr, gb, hk, hu, hr, ie, it, jo, jp, kr, kw, lt, lv, my, nl, no, pl, pt, qa, ro, sa, se, sg, sk, th, tw, us -
  • Russia (ru) is closed down
• javascript API for easy integration in your library or project

Command Line

Install

Global

A globally installed ikea-availability-checker can be used anywhere but there can only be one version of it.

npm install -g ikea-availability-checker

After you can run the ikea-availability-checker directly:

ikea-availability

Local

A locally installed ikea-availability-checker will be placed in ./node_modules/ikea-availability-checker and can be called using the binary link:

npm install ikea-availability-checker;
node_modules/.bin/ikea-availability-checker --help;

NPX

Or call it directly using npx:

npx ikea-availability-checker --help

Use

Stores

npx ikea-availability-checker stores at

┌─────────────┬─────────┬────────┬────────────────┐
│ countryCode │ country │ buCode │ name           │
├─────────────┼─────────┼────────┼────────────────┤
│ at          │ Austria │ 085    │ Wien Vösendorf │
├─────────────┼─────────┼────────┼────────────────┤
│ at          │ Austria │ 090    │ Wien Nord      │
├─────────────┼─────────┼────────┼────────────────┤
│ at          │ Austria │ 155    │ Klagenfurt     │
├─────────────┼─────────┼────────┼────────────────┤
│ at          │ Austria │ 273    │ Innsbruck      │
├─────────────┼─────────┼────────┼────────────────┤
│ at          │ Austria │ 386    │ Salzburg       │
├─────────────┼─────────┼────────┼────────────────┤
│ at          │ Austria │ 387    │ Graz           │
├─────────────┼─────────┼────────┼────────────────┤
│ at          │ Austria │ 388    │ Haid           │
└─────────────┴─────────┴────────┴────────────────┘

Stock

Product Stock Information for a whole country

npx ikea-availability-checker stock --country at 80213074

┌──────────────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬──────────┬──────────────────┬────────────────┬───────┬───────────────┐
│ date                     │ countryCode │ country │ product  │ storeId (buCode) │ store          │ stock │ probability   │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼───────────────┤
│ 2022-09-11T04:14:05.302Z │ at          │ Austria │ 80213074 │ 387              │ Graz           │    55 │ HIGH_IN_STOCK │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼───────────────┤
│ 2022-09-11T09:53:08.594Z │ at          │ Austria │ 80213074 │ 388              │ Haid           │    54 │ HIGH_IN_STOCK │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼───────────────┤
│ 2022-09-11T04:16:10.187Z │ at          │ Austria │ 80213074 │ 273              │ Innsbruck      │    86 │ HIGH_IN_STOCK │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼───────────────┤
│ 2022-09-11T04:05:41.339Z │ at          │ Austria │ 80213074 │ 155              │ Klagenfurt     │    64 │ HIGH_IN_STOCK │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼───────────────┤
│ 2022-09-11T04:02:42.000Z │ at          │ Austria │ 80213074 │ 386              │ Salzburg       │    69 │ HIGH_IN_STOCK │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼───────────────┤
│ 2022-09-11T04:20:21.286Z │ at          │ Austria │ 80213074 │ 090              │ Wien Nord      │    85 │ HIGH_IN_STOCK │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼───────────────┤
│ 2022-09-11T13:03:37.274Z │ at          │ Austria │ 80213074 │ 085              │ Wien Vösendorf │    94 │ HIGH_IN_STOCK │
└──────────────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴──────────┴──────────────────┴────────────────┴───────┴───────────────┘

Product Stock Information for a specific store

with BU-Code (Store-Id)

npx ikea-availability-checker stock --store=155 S69022537

┌──────────────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬───────────┬──────────────────┬────────────┬───────┬───────────────┐
│ date                     │ countryCode │ country │ product   │ storeId (buCode) │ store      │ stock │ probability   │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────┼───────┼───────────────┤
│ 2022-09-11T04:06:00.066Z │ at          │ Austria │ S69022537 │ 155              │ Klagenfurt │    23 │ HIGH_IN_STOCK │
└──────────────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴───────────┴──────────────────┴────────────┴───────┴───────────────┘

Store-Name / Location / City-Name

The "store" option also accepts strings that match on the location’s name:

npx ikea-availability-checker stock --store=Berlin 40413131

Multiple Stores and Product Ids

The list of bu-codes can also contain bu-codes from different countries.

npx ikea-availability-checker stock --store=224,069,063 S69022537 40299687

┌──────────────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬───────────┬──────────────────┬────────────────┬───────┬───────────────┐
│ date                     │ countryCode │ country │ product   │ storeId (buCode) │ store          │ stock │ probability   │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼───────────────┤
│ 2022-09-11T04:23:06.064Z │ de          │ Germany │ S69022537 │ 063              │ München-Eching │    30 │ HIGH_IN_STOCK │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼───────────────┤
│ 2022-09-11T03:20:08.203Z │ de          │ Germany │ S69022537 │ 069              │ Oldenburg      │     8 │ HIGH_IN_STOCK │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼───────────────┤
│ 2022-09-11T12:24:09.811Z │ de          │ Germany │ S69022537 │ 224              │ Sindelfingen   │    14 │ HIGH_IN_STOCK │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼───────────────┤
│ 2022-09-11T04:20:27.278Z │ de          │ Germany │ 40299687  │ 063              │ München-Eching │    27 │ HIGH_IN_STOCK │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼───────────────┤
│ 2022-09-11T03:08:49.874Z │ de          │ Germany │ 40299687  │ 069              │ Oldenburg      │    11 │ HIGH_IN_STOCK │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼───────────────┤
│ 2022-09-11T04:39:05.053Z │ de          │ Germany │ 40299687  │ 224              │ Sindelfingen   │    16 │ HIGH_IN_STOCK │
└──────────────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴───────────┴──────────────────┴────────────────┴───────┴───────────────┘

API

The API interface which helps you include the check into your library is kind of new. If you have suggestions for improvements feel free to open an issue.

const checker = require('ikea-availability-checker');

(async function() {
    const result = await checker.availability('394', '00501436');
    console.log('RESULT', result);
})();

Checkout more examples in the examples directory.

Development

Requirements

• nodejs for version info check .nvmrc. it is strongly recommended to use either nvm and the same node version or the docker container as a development environment

Debug

Node provides a simple way to debug all HTTP-related requests and responses using NODE_DEBUG:

NODE_DEBUG=http npm run start

Testing

The project has a preconfigured test runner mocha. Test coverage is not good.

Running all tests will also create coverage reports shown after the test results.

npm run test

TDD

npm run tdd

Run Specific tests

run test -- --grep="stock reporter"

Smoke Testing

Two shell scripts can be used for testing the different output formats and all or some countries in the "/scripts" directory.

Request Testing

There’s a public postman collection: IKEA Workspace for you to access which is also linked with this repository: /postman/collection

Release

Releases are automated and created by CI managed by semantic-release.

Trouble Shooting

• I want to deactivate colored output Colored output can be disabled by setting the FORCE_COLOR=1 before running a command: FORCE_COLOR=0 npx ikea-availability-checker stores de

Other Projects & Articles

Articles & Resources

• npm package ikea-stock-checker
• API of the Day: Checking IKEA Availability and Warehouse Locations by Joshua Jung
• IKEA Reddit
• IKEA Mobile api description

Packages

• vrslev/ikea-api-client alternate IKEA API Client
• ikea stock checker
• ikea stock finder Japanese ruby
• ikea scraper python stock scraper
• ikea bot telegram notification bot

Services

• Stock Hound website

• IKEA Click & Collect Availability website for us-stores

• ikea-availability-web

• ikeaprices browser snippet for comparing prices in different countries

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