r/canadaguns • u/KorporalKarnage • Jul 31 '26

Application / Regulation advice Guns.Rip and GunsOnline.ca

A where-to-shoot map and an aggregator.

Have fun!

Guns.Rip

and

GunsOnline.ca

I'm still entering gun ranges and no-shoot zones. I made an automated pin drop feature to edit/add crown sites/ranges and pics on the map.

The aggregator took a long time to train, but still might have the odd listing straggler. I'm making a dedicated CRON box to soft scrape all known sites. I made a built-in FRT checker (why not) so you can get more info on the gun you're looking at. The FRT is checked daily and I posted a searchable page for it. I might be adding pictures to it eventually.

I originally made these sites for myself so keep that in mind if you have "complaints". Suggestions and feedback are welcome!

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u/LumberjackCDN Gold'n Loan Outfitters & Pawn Jul 31 '26

I disapprove, i dont see us on there lol.

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u/KorporalKarnage Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

Heh. Yeah, retailers were out of the scope for my map project. But if you sell online I do have a used/consignment section on the GunsOnline.ca site!

Edit: lol Nevermind! You're already on there! Just needed a better pagination. My bots run different on each retailer, they all scrape different.

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u/KorporalKarnage Jul 31 '26

One more thing to add, my scraper caps out at 500 items/day. It may take more time to add the rest of your catalog (I think my log shows 5876 items in store).

This is how I programmed my scrapers, do a "light" touch every night so they don't get blocked (or my IP!).

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u/_Armpit AlmostProhibited.ca Jul 31 '26

If it's 500 a day (per retailer or globally), you're going to be waiting weeks or months to index everything for some stores.

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u/KorporalKarnage Jul 31 '26

Proxy scraper now online. Should show over 13k items. Changed my scraper script to fall back on softer methods if kicked. Still working on more proxies...

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u/LumberjackCDN Gold'n Loan Outfitters & Pawn Jul 31 '26

Noticed lots of out of stock stuff being listed as in stock, at least from the one store.

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u/KorporalKarnage Aug 01 '26

Found the bug! Thanks for the heads up! BigCommerce and WC/Shopify needed tightening.

If you find it still there (I dunno where you found it) or find any more lemme know. It might take a while to re-scrape all BigCommerce stores...

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u/LumberjackCDN Gold'n Loan Outfitters & Pawn Aug 01 '26

Will do!