SAQ Scraper

SAQ aka "The Société des alcools du Québec" is a Crown corporation which is responsible for booze manufacturing, sales, and consumption within the province. And there's no nice, easy-to-use public API if you can believe that :/

This is a simple go program that will scrape the SAQ website after making a query of your choice and save all that data to a csv file.

To find all results, you can make your query "a" (A is for Alcohol). At this moment in time, the "a" query returns 37801 results, which is a bit excessive.

"Chartreuse" returns 4 results, which may be a better first run.

How to use

Build with go build.

Run with ./saq_scraper.

Set query to whatever string you wish. Default is "Chartreuse".

Set language to either saq.English or saq.Français. Default is English.

Next steps

1. Filtering the results (this means creating a new URL with the proper structure)

2. Scraping individual product pages (I need to know how dry this wine is)

3. Saving to a DB instead of a .csv

4. Updating the aformentioned DB periodically

5. ???

6. Buy the perfect wine for my palate