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 which makes it easy to check the availability of a list of products and locations.

• Features
• Command Line
  • Install
    • Global
    • Local
    • NPX
  • Use
    • Stores
    • Stock
      • Product Stock Information for a whole country
      • Product Stock Information for a specific store
        • with BU-Code (Store-Id)
        • Store-Name / Location / City-Name
      • Multiple Stores and Product Ids
• API
• Development
  • Requirements
  • Debug
  • Testing
    • TDD
    • Run Specific tests
  • Release
• Other Projects & Articles

Features

• list of 156 IKEA stores worldwide
• get product stock amount for a product from a whole country or single store in JSON, CSV and CLI-Table format including forecast
• support for many countries: ae, at, au, ca, ch, cn, cz, de, dk, es, fi, fr, gb hk, hr, hu, ie, it, jo, jp, kr, kw, lt, my, nl, no, pl, pt, qa, ro, ru, sa, se, sg, sk, th, tw, us
• integrate the library into your node 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 that the ikea-availability-checker should be callable from everywhere as there’s a link in your usr/bin directory:

ikea-availability-checker

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

npm run start -- 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

npm run start -- stock --country at S69022537

┌──────────────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬───────────┬──────────────────┬────────────────┬───────┬─────────────┐
│ date                     │ countryCode │ country │ product   │ storeId (buCode) │ store          │ stock │ probability │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│ 2020-02-14T10:02:16.036Z │ at          │ Austria │ S69022537 │ 387              │ Graz           │     8 │        HIGH │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│ 2020-02-14T10:02:15.986Z │ at          │ Austria │ S69022537 │ 388              │ Haid           │    16 │        HIGH │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│ 2020-02-14T10:02:16.081Z │ at          │ Austria │ S69022537 │ 273              │ Innsbruck      │    12 │        HIGH │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│ 2020-02-14T10:02:15.988Z │ at          │ Austria │ S69022537 │ 155              │ Klagenfurt     │    13 │        HIGH │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│ 2020-02-14T10:02:16.092Z │ at          │ Austria │ S69022537 │ 386              │ Salzburg       │    18 │        HIGH │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│ 2020-02-14T10:02:16.092Z │ at          │ Austria │ S69022537 │ 090              │ Wien Nord      │    12 │        HIGH │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│ 2020-02-14T10:02:16.095Z │ at          │ Austria │ S69022537 │ 085              │ Wien Vösendorf │    23 │        HIGH │
└──────────────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴───────────┴──────────────────┴────────────────┴───────┴─────────────┘

Product Stock Information for a specific store

with BU-Code (Store-Id)

npm run start -- stock --store=155 S69022537

┌─────────────┬─────────┬───────────┬──────────────────┬────────────┬───────┬─────────────┐
│ countryCode │ country │ product   │ storeId (buCode) │ store      │ stock │ probability │
├─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│ at          │ Austria │ S69022537 │ 155              │ Klagenfurt │    10 │        HIGH │
└─────────────┴─────────┴───────────┴──────────────────┴────────────┴───────┴─────────────┘

Store-Name / Location / City-Name

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

npm run start -- stock --store=Berlin 40413131

Multiple Stores and Product Ids

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

npm run start -- stock --store=224,069,063 S69022537 40313075 40299687

┌─────────────┬─────────┬──────────┬──────────────────┬────────────────┬───────┬─────────────┐
│ countryCode │ country │ product  │ storeId (buCode) │ store          │ stock │ probability │
├─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│ de          │ Germany │ 40313075 │ 063              │ München-Eching │     9 │        HIGH │
├─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│ de          │ Germany │ 40313075 │ 069              │ Oldenburg      │     6 │        HIGH │
├─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│ de          │ Germany │ 40313075 │ 224              │ Sindelfingen   │    10 │        HIGH │
└─────────────┴─────────┴──────────┴──────────────────┴────────────────┴───────┴─────────────┘
┌─────────────┬─────────┬──────────┬──────────────────┬────────────────┬───────┬─────────────┐
│ countryCode │ country │ product  │ storeId (buCode) │ store          │ stock │ probability │
├─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│ de          │ Germany │ 40299687 │ 063              │ München-Eching │     9 │        HIGH │
├─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│ de          │ Germany │ 40299687 │ 069              │ Oldenburg      │    32 │        HIGH │
├─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│ de          │ Germany │ 40299687 │ 224              │ Sindelfingen   │    39 │        HIGH │
└─────────────┴─────────┴──────────┴──────────────────┴────────────────┴───────┴─────────────┘
┌─────────────┬─────────┬───────────┬──────────────────┬────────────────┬───────┬─────────────┐
│ countryCode │ country │ product   │ storeId (buCode) │ store          │ stock │ probability │
├─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│ de          │ Germany │ S69022537 │ 063              │ München-Eching │    19 │        HIGH │
├─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│ de          │ Germany │ S69022537 │ 069              │ Oldenburg      │     9 │        HIGH │
├─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│ de          │ Germany │ S69022537 │ 224              │ Sindelfingen   │     9 │        HIGH │
└─────────────┴─────────┴───────────┴──────────────────┴────────────────┴───────┴─────────────┘

API

The API interface which helps you including 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', 'S69022537');
    console.log('RESULT', result);
})();

Development

Requirements

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

Debug

DEBUG=ikea* 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"

Release

npm version minor
npm publish

Other Projects & Articles

• npm package ikea-stock-checker
• API of the Day: Checking IKEA Availability and Warehouse Locations by Joshua Jung
• https://github.com/lovegandhi/ikea-stock-checker