Inspiration
The UMass Dining app allows you to look through all the schedules of each dining hall and what kinds of foods will be served in the next two weeks. However, if you want a specific food item, the only way to find out is if you scroll through every single dining hall through breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late night. This led us to make a way for people to search for a specific food item.
What it does
It finds a certain food and tells you what day, what meal, and what dining hall the food is served in for the next two weeks
How we built it
We used github, python, html, css, javascript and flask
Challenges we ran into
When trying to webscrape we could only scrape one page since there was a button that changed the date which in turn changed the menu on the page while keeping the page url static. This meant that we had to rely on GET requests.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
The search engine works making it so close searches would appear as suggestions
What we learned
We learned web scraping and flask
What's next for UMass Food Finder
Make it an app for mobile
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