Inspiration
With the world being more and more geared towards consumerism everyday, people lose touch with where the things they are buying come from (especially when they can order them to their doorstep with a couple clicks of a button) and the actual cost it takes to produce them. Food products are a primary example of this, that is why we chose to do a hack in the online grocery shopping domain.
We hope that our hack can bring more awareness to everyday consumers, and help them grocery shop more ethically, for a healthier planet!
What it does
A chrome extension that easily allows people to view the actual companies they are buying their groceries from in their Amazon Fresh cart. The extension rates the ethicality of the brands/manufacturers of the food in a person's cart.
How we built it
Webscraped the website https://www.ethical.org.au/3.4.2/, to get the data from their Food & Drink section, dumped it into a database, created an API, and used it to connect items in users cart with database.
HTML, CSS, Javascript and a Python backend on a Postgres instance hosted on GCP
Challenges we ran into
Webscraping data for the database, isolating the info in the html for the actual items in a persons cart
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Being able to overcome the above challenges but ultimately connecting everything together.
What we learned
How to create a chrome extension, how to work together as team despite varying skill levels
What's next for EthicalEats
Expanding the extension to work on other food shopping sites, improving UI, etc...
Built With
- beautiful-soup
- chrome
- css3
- discord
- fastapi
- html5
- javascript
- miro
- postgresql
- python
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