Dickinson Menu Bot

A Java webscraper that extracts and emails the users the daily menu from the Dickinson College Dining website.

Sept 2019 - July 2020
GitHub

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Motivation

Overhearing my classmates complaining about the lack of a convenient method of checking menus, I decided to make a program to solve the inconvenience.

Impact

Offered an easy method of checking the menu to a student and faculty userbase of over 20 people.

Responsibilities

  • Built a Java webscraping application that collects, formats, and emails the college cafetaria menu to students and faculty.
  • Created an fully automated system using Raspberry Pi and crontab.

Technologies Used:

  • Languages: Python, Java, Shell scripting
  • Tools: Crontab, Raspberry Pi