category of an article

[littleyoda]

Describe the bug

Unsurprisingly, the function “def get_article_category(self, article_id: str)” no longer works.

I have already looked through the entire JSON returned by “/pages/product-details-page-root?id={article_id},” but I haven't found any clues as to a category.

Does anyone have any idea how I can get the category of an article with the current api?

Steps to reproduce the issue

Use get_article_category with any article

What did you expect to happen instead?

Should returns the name of the categorie

Python Version

3.11

[codesalatdev]

I seem to have forgotten about this function. Requesting a category together with an article's data raises a NotImplementedError so this is just a leftover. This was broken ever since I forked the library and when wanting to fix it, I too couldn't find any endpoint or reference to a category, so I just left it at that.

[littleyoda]

Small update:

If you add "show_category_action=true" to the article url, the Json-File contains some category information:

 "onPress": {
     "actionType": "OPEN",
     "target": "app.picnic://categories/19362/l2/19431/l3/19769"
},

path = f"/pages/product-details-page-root?id={article_id}&show_category_action=true"

I tried to a request, without success.
p._get("/categories/19362/l2/19431/l3/19769", add_picnic_headers=True)

Unfortunately, I don't have any idea what else I can do with the information at the moment.

[littleyoda]

Using the information from p.get_categories(), you can translate at least the first two levels ( 19362 and 19431)

[codesalatdev]

Small update:

If you add "show_category_action=true" to the article url, the Json-File contains some category information:

 "onPress": {
     "actionType": "OPEN",
     "target": "app.picnic://categories/19362/l2/19431/l3/19769"
},

path = f"/pages/product-details-page-root?id={article_id}&show_category_action=true"

I tried to a request, without success. p._get("/categories/19362/l2/19431/l3/19769", add_picnic_headers=True)

Unfortunately, I don't have any idea what else I can do with the information at the moment.

That's a big update! :D I will get my PicNic-Phone operational again and see what I can find. Thank you so far!

Translating the first two levels would definitely be a fallback.

[codesalatdev]

The function get_category_by_ids has been added and get_article can now be used with the parameter add_category = True to also retrieve the category data. See #20 (comment)

If you have a use-case where returning the Level 1 category could be useful, please open a new issue for that.
Thank you for bringing this up!