Marciano Dining Webscraper

This web scraper is an attempt to make eating take less time and palatable to people who skip meals to save time.

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Inspiration

As a busy college student, I find myself developing bad eating habits and struggling to meet nutritional needs. I wanted to develop a tool that I can use to filter out the menu at the Marciano dining hall so that I can eat healthier and plan my meals better.

What it does

My project is a web scraper that scrapes the Marciano dining hall website for food items that are being served on that day. It provides facts like calories, proteins, and carbs.

How we built it

I used BeautifulSoup to parse the HTML contents of the Marciano dining hall website and placed those contents into a CSV file that is easier to analyze.

Challenges we ran into

I worked on this project solo so I did not know how else to expand and improve on this tool. I wanted to develop an user-friendly mobile app that displayed the information gathered in the CSV file but I have no experience in developing mobile apps.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I am proud of learning how to utilize BeautifulSoup and being able to come up with a solution that improves my life at college.

What we learned

I learned that teamwork is crucial and that having teammates would make my project exponentially better.

What's next for Marciano Dining Webscraper

Perhaps presenting scraped data in a mobile app that can be customized to a user's athletic goals (bulking, cutting, maintaining, etc).

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