Twilio Shopping List

Introduction

This project was made for the 2019 UB Hackathon and incorporates the Wegmans and Twilio APIs, and uses the Google Cloud Platform.

Functionality

In order to use this service, you will have to send SMS messages to this phone number: 585-471-6373.
The commands that can be used are:

• "Look up a recipe and add it to my shopping list"
  Input:
  Steak
  Response:
  Added the Grilled Guajillo Adobo Steak recipe to your shopping list:
Food You Feel Good About Guajillo Pepper Adobo, divided,
Wegmans Beef Flank Steak,
Wegmans Pure Olive Oil

• "Retrieve locations of all items in my shopping list"
  Input:
  Shopping list
  Response:
  Shopping List:
Food You Feel Good About Guajillo Pepper Adobo, divided:
Aisle: 15A
Side: Left
Shelf: 5
Wegmans Beef Flank Steak:
Aisle: Meat Case
Side: None
Shelf: 2
Wegmans Pure Olive Oil:
Aisle: 16A
Side: Left
Shelf: 3

Future Improvements and Limitations

• Location is currently hardcoded to one Wegmans store. In the future the store's location shall be chosen through SMS.
• Since the trial version of Twilio is used, responses are cut to a maximum of 1600 characters, and every number has to be verified to receive responses from this service.
• An option to locate individual items shall be implemented in the future.

Built With

• flask
• python
• twilio
• wegmans