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Here is my post from last year which didn’t get much attention on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33507260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3350726
by mateuszbuda 4y ago
Here is my post from last year which didn’t get much attention on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33507260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33507260
It analyzes how much sugar is in the food based on nutrition facts data scraped from Walmart. It also shows relation between amount of sugar and rating.
- a_d 4y agoThis is incredibly useful! Is it possible to make this into a simple (single page) shopping list? Where I type my shopping list, product recommends substitutes with lower sugar — and gives me distribution (histogram) of main ingredients for my shopping list. That would be life changing.
- mateuszbuda 4y agoThis is definitely possible. I’m not sure if we’re going to have time for this as we’re occupied by work on Scraping Fish but we shared the code for scraping nutrition facts data from Walmart on github: https://github.com/pawelkobojek/scrapingfish-blog-projects/tree/main/scraping-walmart https://github.com/pawelkobojek/scrapingfish-blog-projects/t.... Feel free to take it and build such app/website on top of it.