vkotek/lunchscraper

Smichovsky Lunch Scraper

lunchScraper

Collects daily menu information from nearby restaurants and delivers it to your email every day at 11:00.

Sign up on https://web.kotek.co/lunch-scraper. Or view the menu directly at https://web.kotek.co/lunch-scraper/menu

This code is created and managed by Vojtech Kotek. Suggestions for improvements are welcome.

Minimal Customizable View (JIRA Friendly)

You can customize the direct menu view and make it embed-friendly.

• Root URL: https://web.kotek.co/lunch-scraper/menu
• ?compact=1 (makes view more compact, removes header/footer and margins)
• ?id=1,3,2 (id of the restaurants to show, in desired order)
• ?language={en,cs} (displays only the desired language to save space)

Example: https://web.kotek.co/lunch-scraper/menu?compact=1&language=en&id=11,1,15

Changelog

2019-10-XX v2.0 [IN PROGRESS]

• Allow subscribers to define the order of menus on the preference page.

2019-10-21 v1.5.2 [MASTER]

• Added Facebook page scraping!

2019-10-21 v1.5.1

• When a menu cannot be retrieved, the restaurant still appears in the email with a message.
• Added Selenium and headless Chrome to support scraping of JavaScript rendered websites.

2019-08-XX v1.5

• Language translation of menus to English
• Add language selection to user preference page

2019-07-25 v1.4

• Email templates are now stored and rendered locally rather than on relying on email provider service.

2019-07-XX v1.3

• Command Line Interface added for main admin functions.
• Subscribers and Restaurants now stored in local 'data' folder in the application rather than web app.
• Automated testing added using pytest application.
• Adapted for and integrated with Travis CI for automated integration testing.
• Application structure changed to fit with CI, testing, and best practices.

2019-06-11 v1.2

• Email is now sent iteratively to each user, allowing for personalized experience.
• Added preference management page and link to email footer

2019-06-10 v1.1

• Self sign-up with email verification on web.kotek.co/subscription
• Subscribers are now managed in an external JSON file, path is specified in settings.py.
• Backend preparations for preference management
• Added Lavande restaurant

2019-06-03 v1.0

• lunchScraper is launched to the public.
• Added Potrefena Husa - Na Verandach on request

Notes

• When running for the first time, one must create an empty subscribers.json file otherwise app fails. >> Fix this in code so that it auto-creates the file.