The Open API of Systembolaget

Systembolaget, the Swedish alcohol retailing monopoly, generously offers semi-detailed stock data through an open API. The data reveals in which stores specific products currently are in stock, but not the actual stock number. In this document, I will show you how to access the data using R and how to cluster stores based on this. A summary of the data is given by Systembolaget in Swedish here: https://www.systembolaget.se/api/. Data The data consists of three XML trees; one for product data, one for store data, and one for stock data. [Read More]