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Speaking of which, do food APIs exist? I've often been tempted to make a generic pizza API that — by limiting options — will deliver a pizza to almost any addre

by lamby 11y ago

Speaking of which, do food APIs exist? I've often been tempted to make a generic pizza API that — by limiting options — will deliver a pizza to almost any address via Just-Eat or whatever is local to you.

ykguler 11y ago
Haven't really seen any food api's. It would be cool if it did exist though.. But I don't think Just-Eat like services will bite since you'll be driving traffic away from their website..
- gedrap 11y ago
  What's the problem with the traffic being driven away from the web site? As long as it would be coming through their API (think of centralized API for local food joints), and they get their cut it's all good. But I see valid reasons for not providing APIs like that. Imagine someone creates a gadget like that and there's a bug, instead of 1 pizza it orders 10 of them. A delivery guy comes with 10, and no one is willing to pay for that many. It wouldn't take long to infuriate enough food joints. Well, yeah, you could pay with credit card when placing an order... But I never do that, I just avoid using my card on web if I can easily do it :)
- lamby 11y ago
  Away? I would probably use them via screen-scraping. However whilst they would be getting the order, they wouldn't be gaining the end-customer as I would be proxying that.
- jeffasinger 11y ago
  I think Seamless offers an API: http://www.seamless.com/business-development/ http://www.seamless.com/business-development/
qq66 11y ago
In 2005, my friends Dave and Adam built a pizza button in our dorm, it actually used the modem to send a fax to a local pizza place because that's all they had. Pushing the button ordered a cheese, but there were two auxiliary buttons underneath to select a topping via a Huffman code. (0 for pepperoni, 10 for sausage, 110 for anchovy, etc.) I presume there are better APIs today :)
- quebeck 11y ago
  Sounds pretty straight forward. Today you have either to talk or to confirm a lot until you get what you want.
mulander 11y ago
There was this old Perl script for ordering Pizza at Domino's but I don't think it used an API (web scraping if I recall correctly). http://www.coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/pizzaparty/ http://www.coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/pizzaparty/ https://github.com/coryarcangel/Pizza-Party-0.1.b https://github.com/coryarcangel/Pizza-Party-0.1.b
pkfrank 11y ago
Push for Pizza? https://www.pushforpizza.com/ https://www.pushforpizza.com/

by lamby 11y ago

ykguler 11y ago

Haven't really seen any food api's. It would be cool if it did exist though.. But I don't think Just-Eat like services will bite since you'll be driving traffic away from their website..

gedrap 11y ago
What's the problem with the traffic being driven away from the web site? As long as it would be coming through their API (think of centralized API for local food joints), and they get their cut it's all good. But I see valid reasons for not providing APIs like that. Imagine someone creates a gadget like that and there's a bug, instead of 1 pizza it orders 10 of them. A delivery guy comes with 10, and no one is willing to pay for that many. It wouldn't take long to infuriate enough food joints. Well, yeah, you could pay with credit card when placing an order... But I never do that, I just avoid using my card on web if I can easily do it :)
lamby 11y ago
Away? I would probably use them via screen-scraping. However whilst they would be getting the order, they wouldn't be gaining the end-customer as I would be proxying that.
jeffasinger 11y ago
I think Seamless offers an API: http://www.seamless.com/business-development/ http://www.seamless.com/business-development/

qq66 11y ago

In 2005, my friends Dave and Adam built a pizza button in our dorm, it actually used the modem to send a fax to a local pizza place because that's all they had. Pushing the button ordered a cheese, but there were two auxiliary buttons underneath to select a topping via a Huffman code. (0 for pepperoni, 10 for sausage, 110 for anchovy, etc.) I presume there are better APIs today :)

quebeck 11y ago
Sounds pretty straight forward. Today you have either to talk or to confirm a lot until you get what you want.

mulander 11y ago

There was this old Perl script for ordering Pizza at Domino's but I don't think it used an API (web scraping if I recall correctly). http://www.coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/pizzaparty/ http://www.coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/pizzaparty/ https://github.com/coryarcangel/Pizza-Party-0.1.b https://github.com/coryarcangel/Pizza-Party-0.1.b

pkfrank 11y ago

Push for Pizza? https://www.pushforpizza.com/ https://www.pushforpizza.com/