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Kro-Get

Kro-Get is a terminal-first CLI/TUI for composing Kroger grocery carts from reusable lists and recurring staples. It helps you plan quickly, review clearly, and apply changes only when you say so.

Kro-Get TUI

It lets you:

  • keep grocery staples as reusable lists
  • search Kroger's catalog from the terminal
  • stage a proposal before anything changes
  • apply items to your cart with explicit confirmation
  • finish checkout in the browser by design

Kro-Get cannot place orders or charge you money. The most it can do is add items to your cart after you confirm.

Kro-Get TUI

Why Kro-Get exists

Re-adding the same groceries every week is tedious. Fully automated checkout is risky.

Kro-Get sits in the middle:

  • automation where it's safe
  • human confirmation where it matters

Everything is local-first, explicit, inspectable, and reversible.

Features

  • Terminal UI (TUI) for browsing, planning, and applying groceries
  • Reusable lists (Staples, Snacks, etc.)
  • Proposal workflow: add lists -> review -> apply
  • Search history for fast re-adds
  • Local state only (plain JSON, no telemetry)
  • Official Kroger API (no scraping)
  • Guardrails: dry-run by default, confirmation before cart mutation

Agent-friendly

Every CLI command supports --json output. That makes Kro-Get usable by CLI agents like Claude or Codex to search, plan, and propose carts on your behalf, while still keeping the final apply step explicit.

Install

Recommended (isolated, safe):

pipx install kroget

Alternative:

pip install kroget

Setup (2-3 minutes)

Kroger requires each user to register their own developer app credentials. Kro-Get does not ship shared secrets.

Step 1: Run setup

kroget setup

This will:

  • guide you through adding your credentials
  • open the Kroger developer portal
  • validate your config

Non-interactive (scripted) setup:

kroget setup \
  --client-id ... \
  --client-secret ... \
  --redirect-uri http://localhost:8400/callback \
  --location-id 01400441 \
  --no-open-portal \
  --no-run-login

Step 2: Log in

kroget auth login

This opens a browser once and stores a refresh token locally.

Verify

kroget doctor

Usage

Launch the TUI

kroget tui

Typical flow

  1. Search for items
  2. Save them to a list (Staples, Snacks, etc.)
  3. Add one or more lists to a proposal
  4. Review quantities and alternatives
  5. Apply -> items are added to your Kroger cart
  6. Checkout on the Kroger website

CLI examples

kroget products search milk --location-id <LOCATION_ID>
kroget lists list
kroget lists set-active Staples
kroget lists items list    # defaults to the active list
kroget lists items add Staples "Milk" --term "milk" --qty 1
kroget lists items propose Staples --location-id <LOCATION_ID> --out proposal.json
kroget proposal apply proposal.json --apply

Safety model

  • Kro-Get cannot checkout
  • Kro-Get cannot see your full cart
  • Kro-Get only adds items when you confirm
  • All state lives locally in ~/.kroget/
  • Tokens are stored with 0600 permissions

This is intentional.

Local data

Kro-Get stores plain JSON locally:

~/.kroget/
  config.json
  tokens.json
  lists.json
  sent_items.json

You can inspect, back up, or delete these at any time.

Requirements

  • Python 3.11+
  • A Kroger account
  • A free Kroger developer app registration

Non-goals (by design)

  • No checkout automation
  • No background scheduling
  • No telemetry or tracking
  • No cloud service dependency

This is a personal automation tool, not a SaaS.

Not affiliated

Kro-Get is not affiliated with Kroger. Use is subject to Kroger's API Terms of Service.

Developer quickstart

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .[dev]
kroget doctor
kroget products search milk --location-id <LOCATION_ID>
kroget auth login
kroget cart add --location-id <LOCATION_ID> --product-id <UPC> --quantity 1 --apply

Releasing

Releases are tag-driven and follow Conventional Commits. Versions come from git tags via setuptools-scm.

Steps:

  1. Ensure commits follow Conventional Commits (e.g., fix: ..., feat: ...).
  2. Run cz bump to update CHANGELOG.md and create the tag.
  3. Push with git push --follow-tags, then git push.

Environment

Environment variables always override ~/.kroget/config.json. For local development, you can also create a .env in the repo root with:

KROGER_CLIENT_ID=...
KROGER_CLIENT_SECRET=...
KROGER_REDIRECT_URI=http://localhost:8400/callback
KROGER_BASE_URL=https://api.kroger.com

Curl debugging

Client credentials token:

curl -X POST 'https://api.kroger.com/v1/connect/oauth2/token' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic <base64(CLIENT_ID:CLIENT_SECRET)>' \
  -d 'grant_type=client_credentials&scope=product.compact'

Product search:

curl -X GET \
  'https://api.kroger.com/v1/products?filter.term=milk&filter.locationId=<LOCATION_ID>&filter.limit=10' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>'

Support

If Kro-Get saved you time or grocery brainpower, you can support my open-source work here ☕

Buy Me a Coffee

License

MIT

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