Is my produce in stock?

Inspiration

All the stores were out of stock due to the coronavirus.

What it does

It gathers stock information from websites and aggregates data. The search functionality wasn't completed in time though.

How I built it

A front-end server using flask via python hosted in Google Compute Platform's App Engine serves a webpage to a client browser. When a client searches, they are directed to a results page while the front-end server communicates with a Falcon REST server via python hosted on Google Compute Platform's App Engine. The back-end searches grocery websites.

Challenges I ran into

Time, SQL issues, website crawling/scraping issues.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Getting the front-end to communicate with the back-end and learning new languages!

What I learned

Learning what REST calls are, hosting servers on GCP.

What's next for Is my produce in stock?

Completion. The release is located under the master branch. https://rowdyhacks-dev.appspot.com/

Built With

• app-engine
• bootstrap
• falcon
• flask
• gcp
• google-cloud
• python
• rest