Yelp You Out

Inspiration

We love food.

What it does

Optimizes multiple people's preferences to find a place to eat.

How we built it

Built custom functions to record all people's preferences and optimize what to search in Yelp. Then show the top 5 choices with links to the Yelp and Instagram tag pages. Instagram is added to appeal to younger generations who also care about keeping up with what is hot and trendy as these tags show up based on how recent it is.

Challenges we ran into

Importing API's and getting authentication to use the data. For example, we planned to do a lot with the Instagram API, but realized 4 hours before the deadline that we would only have access to one person's account and not public accounts, tags, and locations because this is a small test app.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I'm proud of the python that I learned and seeing how the efforts it took to import the APIs. We are proud of understanding get and post requests.

What we learned

We learned how to import and access and interpret data from the API.

What's next for Yelp You Out

Getting authentication to utilize Instagram's API. Also, expanding to not just food, but as a helper to Yelp. We would like to add how many tags a place has on Instagram and recent photos to take in if the location is a seasonal thing or "hot and new".