The goal of LCBO API is to provide developers, hobbyists, and anyone who is interested with a way to create applications that take advantage of the unique benefits that come from having a single provider of alcoholic beverages in a large geographical area.
The API is primarily designed to provide JSON data directly to mobile and web applications, but it is also capable of returning CSV data to be used directly in a spreadsheet application.
Here are some examples of real-world applications:
If you plan on performing hundreds of queries per second for uses such as data analysis then you should download the latest dataset and perform these operations offline. The datasets contain CSV data, if you need a different format please ask.
I would love to hear about how you are using the data or API. I would also love to hear from you if you want to do something with the data but are not sure how to get started. You can reach me through Twitter, and by email.