MealSuggestion

Inspiration

As students who cook for ourselves, it is challenging to think of dishes that can get rid of leftover veggies and ingredients in the refrigerator. We thought it will be helpful to build meal suggestion application

What it does

Once the program asks for your input ingredient(s), type however many ingredients you want. Then it will show you the title of variety of dishes to try and a link to the recipe!

How we built it

Using python and python requests library, we were able to request and get the information from Wegmans' API and then created tables (dictionaries) to easily navigate relevant information.

Challenges we ran into

Using postman to pull up the Subscription key and request information. Using the given data was also challenging.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

As group of students who've never experienced API usage and requests library, we are proud to finish the project in time with such a concise code.

What we learned

We learned a lot about python requests library works and Postman and API. Also it was a good opportunity to realize how important data management is and to challenge ourselves with totally new area of coding.

What's next for MealSuggestion

We are expecting to work on Front-end implementation.

Built With

api
python

Submitted to

BrickHack V

Created by

I read the JSON file to retrieve the data provided by Wegmans through their API. It was my first time working with JSON and therefore the setup was kind of confusing but when I understood it, it was not that difficult. Then I created some python dictionaries to store the data retrieved and used it to filter the recipes according to the ingredients provided by the user.

Tejaswini Jagtap
I retrieved data from Wegman's dev.wegman.io website which is accessible to Hackathon students. To run, JSON and Python requests libraries were used. I also worked on the backend (coding and figuring out the logic behind the program). I made different dictionaries for storing and linking all the data together. I was able to eventually present a working code where based on the user's desired inputs, I displayed all the names of the recipes which match with the user provided ingredients. In addition to this, I was able to display the corresponding links of each recipe where a description on how to make the recipe was provided.

Himani Munshi
jxb4892

Updates

jxb4892 started this project — Feb 17, 2019 09:22 AM EST

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