Random Restaurant Picker

Introduction

A flask app that pick restaurant for you randomly in Hong Kong. Data is retrieved from Openrice.

How to start

Set up a MongoDB account and put Mongo connection url in .env as MONGO_URL. Run the script in scrapping.py to create collections and records in the database.

Then run ./start.sh to start the service.

Endpoints

Get Restaurant

Method: GET
URL: http://127.0.0.1:5000/restaurant
Query Parameters:

1. location: String, optional. List of possible locations can be found in settings.py

Get Restaurant Status

Method: GET
URL: http://127.0.0.1:5000/restaurant/status
Query Parameters:

1. poi_id: String, required. The ID of a restaurant.