MealCheck

MealCheck is an interactive program that determines local restaurants within the user's radius and returns its location

The primary files in this project are foodMain.py, foodMain2.py, dataScraper.py, gui.py, and userName.py.

foodMain.py and foodMain2.py are the same file except that foodMain2.py includes integration with the PyQt5 GUI in gui.py.

Both of these files allow users to enter their name, search keywords, and zipcode to find food in their area. In addition, it contains methods to pass to dataScraper.py and search for food with the keywords and zipcode from the user input. Afterwards, it updates the visible information on the gui to display a result to the user.

userName.py contains information about an individual user and was created with the goal to add authentication and database support in the future.

dataScraper.py is the biggest player in the game, and parses data from Google Maps searches of food and zipcodes.

What we learned

From this project, we learned a lot about how to create a usable python project - this was the first time that any of us have created anything tangible outside of an introductory python class. We originally started with a huge idea of creating a database and authentication process for our users, but we simply ran out of time. By paring down our project to bare bones, we were able to complete something that is tangible and that we are extremely proud of! We explored and learned about multiple libraries, like PyQt and Selenium. It was a great learning experience for us and we look forward to doing more Hackathons in the future!

Built With

google
maps
pyqt
python

Submitted to

WaffleHacks 2022

Created by

I initially intended to do a React frontend to integrate with our Python backend, but ran into significant issues as my React experience is limited to big-picture MERN applications. Ultimately, we decided that limiting the scope of our project would be better as this is the first hackathon for us all. In the end, I implemented a relatively bare-bones GUI with PyQt5 (after some headaches installing the module on my arm-64 Python 3.10 version on an M1 Mac--x86 3.9 Python worked, though). The GUI gathers user input from input windows and displays the output on a gui window, so none of our user interface needs to be accessed through the console to enter input and get results.

Scott Irons
I worked on the back-end, specifically I made dataScrapper.py, in order to scrap data from Google Maps. It was my first time attempting data scrapping and I initially attempted to scrap data from Google Search directly. After some difficulty due to the sheer amount of data contained in Google Search, I pared down to using Google Maps since it had all the data I considered relevant for our program and I learned a lot about HTML and Selenium in the process. dataScrapper.py takes a user entered food category and zipcode to find food in their area, and will return various information including the restaurant name, its ratings, and dollar signs.

Rebecca Chen
Aspiring software engineer, looking forward to meeting and working with everyone
Tee Nguyen

Updates

Tee Nguyen started this project — Jun 19, 2022 11:54 AM EDT

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