UT Free Food Finder

Find free food at UT Austin using the app and/or website

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Inspiration

With the rising costs of living in Austin, we wanted to make sure that food was one less problem to think about for UT students. Even if students are initially drawn to free food, the incentive gives students the opportunity to be exposed to many different clubs, organizations, and companies.

What it does

The UT Free Food Finder scrapes websites around UT for events that include free food in events and displays the results into the website/app.

How we built it

We implemented a webscraper with Java and a mobile/desktop app using React.Native/React for the user interface and experience.

Challenges we ran into

  1. We had to limit the input to one page for the sake of time
  2. The java backend is not connected directly to the javascript frontend
  3. One of us has never really done any web development at all

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  1. The webscraper actually works!!!

What we learned

  1. How to build a webscraper
  2. How to give information in a JSON format

What's next for UT Free Food Finder

  1. We will try to implement it in a larger scale with more websites.
  2. Actually connect the java to the javascript.

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