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Recently I wrote a small search engine for NYC menus: https://c.bitlet.org/ff.html https://c.bitlet.org/ff.html The data is small enough that you can keep it a
by casta 4y ago
Recently I wrote a small search engine for NYC menus: https://c.bitlet.org/ff.html https://c.bitlet.org/ff.html
The data is small enough that you can keep it all in memory. It was a nice toy and it let me play with a few data retrieval techniques I had heard talking about but never actually implemented.
- brtkdotse 4y agoInteresting. Did you scrape the restaurants websites?
- casta 4y agoThe data is scraped from restaurant menu aggregators. There are some online and they don't seem to even try to stop you from scraping. If I had to guess I'd say that scraping restaurant websites would be a much bigger project than what I did, given that there isn't structure in how menus are presented, and most of them still have pdfs, or even worse, an image for their menu.
- wnolens 4y agoThis is sweet haha. I want Mapo Tofu, nearby, ranked by price and distance. Next: what's the sentiment about that dish (from reviews). Or at least a restaurant rating. Love how fast it is and the non distracting design. Bookmarked.