recipe-project

Development work on creating a python program that takes a recipe url, or manually input recipe, and calculates cost and nutrition per serving. This is my first idea and work on building a python project. I am hoping to eventually build it into a website using Flask.

background

I am interested in tracking food costs and nutritional information for recipes that I make. However, I haven't found a resource that calculates both without personally documenting ingredients and how much they cost in an Excel spreadsheet. Light Bulb I have primarily used Python for data analysis and decided this would make a good project to gain different experience in Python.

idea

• Input:
  • recipe url
    • return recipe into a 3-column dataframe [ingredient qty., qty. measurement, ingredient]
    • use food database API to pull in cost based on IP location [python package ipinfo]
  • manual recipe
    • will require ingredients, amounts, and measurements

development

• url

  • build a program that can read in a recipe from provided url
    • beautifulsoup and requests to scrape
    • automate scraping ingredients regardless of url
      • tests:
        • theleangreenbean.com
        • tasty.com
        • budgetbytes.com
        • recipes.com
        • thefoodnetwork.com
    • parse recipe ingredients into readable format
  • return ingredient nutritional information from food database api
  • return ingredient cost from food database api (instacart?)
  • aggregate nutritional and food cost info for entire recipe
  • calculate nutritional and food cost info per serving of recipe

• manual

  • recipe form
    • qty, unit, ingredient
    • ability to add additional ingredients
  • test db to store ingredients
    • tables
      • products
      • prices
      • locale
      • stores

resources

• https://hackersandslackers.com/scraping-urls-with-beautifulsoup/
• https://hackingandslacking.com/scrape-structured-data-with-python-and-extruct-ee1305493307
• https://realpython.com/python-web-scraping-practical-introduction/
• https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-web-scrape-with-python-in-4-minutes-bc49186a8460
• https://towardsdatascience.com/web-scraping-regular-expressions-and-data-visualization-doing-it-all-in-python-37a1aade7924