Too Good To Go is an app that looks to solve food waste by providing a platform to connect restaurants with excess food and consumers looking for great deals. I use the app frequently looking for deals on tasty food items that I would probably purchase at full price anyways. There's one feature the app is missing though; notifications.
TooGoodToGoBot2 is my solution to this feature via a node service integrated with MongoDB and Discord. Note that TooGoodToGoBot2 is unaffiliated with Too Good To Go and any usage is done so at your own risk.
In order to ensure that the bot doesn't get overloaded with accounts to poll, I am manually controlling adding the bot to a server. To use this bot, create an issue asking to add the bot to your server and I will add the bot for you depending on capacity. In a channel with the bot, /login <email> and /continue-login <email> to setup the poller for your account. Currently an email can only be added to one channel, based on the channel /login is sent to the bot, which should suffice. If you would like to setup this application yourself, see the below details.
Dependencies: Node.js, MongoDB, Discord
git clone https://github.com/jackie-z528/TooGoodToGoBot.git
cd TooGoodToGoBot
npm i
Create a discord application and a discord bot under the application. Make a note of the bot token somewhere.
Create a MongoDB Cluster and make a note of the connection url.
Create a .env file and populate the following values:
DB_NAME: Name of your MongoDB database
DB_URL: Connection URL to the MongoDB db
DISCORD_TOKEN: Discord bot token
DISCORD_CLIENT_ID: Client ID of your discord application
For the initial run, run the DB migrations and build the application:
DB_URL=<DB_URL> npx migrate-mongo up
npm run build
For normal runs: node build/index.js
When your favourites have an increase in stock, the discord bot will send you a notification.
