MenuMate

MenuMate is a submission for McHacks 2023, a web application that leverages React, Flask, Co:Here, and Beautiful Soup. The project fetches information about Ottawa restaurants, checks for current health issues, and generates brief business descriptions using Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Features

• Restaurant Information: Fetches details about Ottawa restaurants.
• Health Issue Indicator: Indicates if the restaurant has current health issues.
• Business Description: Generates a concise business description using NLP.
• React and Flask Implementation: Frontend built with React, backend powered by Flask.
• Co:Here and Beautiful Soup: Utilizes Co:Here for certain functionalities and Beautiful Soup for web scraping.

Team

• Asad Ali
• Masoud Karimi
• Joshua John
• Anthony Le
• Aranan Thayaparan

Technologies Used

• React: JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
• Flask: Python web framework used for the backend.
• Co:Here: Used for specific functionalities within the application.
• Beautiful Soup: Python library for web scraping.
• NLP: Natural Language Processing for generating business descriptions.

Getting Started

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/Twoos123/MenuMate.git

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd MenuMate

3. Install dependencies:

   npm install

4. Run the application:

   npm start

   Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000 to use MenuMate.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you have ideas, suggestions, or improvements, feel free to open an issue or create a pull request.

Acknowledgments

• This project was developed as a submission for McHacks 2023.