Unsure of what to eat tonight in Singapore? This bot can help you find food locations depending on your location and food budget. You can try it out on telegram at: Try the bot!
Webscraping done for educational and project purposes only. By no means have I tried to profit off data scraped (which is commonly available data on google, such as phone number/location/operating hours of restaurants), or attempted to destablise the original websites for personal gain. All content belongs to respective owners of website, and I have linked the original websites when providing search results to improve traffic. If you are the owner of the websites, feel free to contact me to update your terms and conditions of your website!
To start the bot, you can run the /start command.
A list of MRT stations 🚂, will be presented to you. Click on the on-screen keyboard to select the location you want! You will now be prompted to choose the budget that you have. Only selected locations have filter for budgets 💰. You can select No preference to guarentee that you will get a result! Enjoy the random selection of food curated by the bot. Happy exploring!
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As Singaporeans, we all take pride in our food 🍱. Usually, we are spoilt for a choice of good food, and can't decide where to eat. This bot aims to help introduce new food that have been reviewed, making it easy for people to discover new places.
From a technical standpoint, I created this project with the intention about learning about telegram's API. Moreover, I wanted to sharpen my Postgresql skills that I have learnt over the previous semester, while learning about webscraping.
This project was created with:
- Python v3.8.1
- bs4 v4.10.0
- pytelegrambotapi v 4.2.2
- psycopg2 v2.9.2
You will have to download the dependencies as stated in requirements.txt. Dependencies can be downloaded via running pip3 install bs4.
Afterwards, you will have to provision your own telegram API_KEY that you can get from the Botfather
Next, you have to use your own database (local/hosted database) and replace the DATABASE_URL with that of your own. You could also connect via credentials of your database.
Run MTC.py, Seth.py, then run Main.py.