Maggie Rosner, Elena Meyerson, Kyle Combes, and Nina Tchirkova

Grocery Helper assists you in planning your grocery shopping. Given a list of items and a location, it will tell you which stores nearby carry the items and what the best itinerary is to go about purchasing them.

More details on this project can be found here.

In order to run GroceryHelper on your own computer, you'll need the following Python 3 modules installed:

• flask
• untangle
• requests

Then you'll need to create a file called keys.py in your project root and put the necessary API keys in it. For the sake of saving the SoftDes grading team the trouble of manually getting all of the keys, you can simply copy the contents of this Google Doc and paste it into keys.py. (Note: The Doc will be made private again after June 1, 2017.)

In preparation for running the web app, you'll need to create the stores and items database and download the nearby stores data. To do that, just run python3 setup.py. It will download and install all the necessary data.

By default it will just download stores in Massachusetts. If you want to add a different ZIP range, simply run python3 update_db.py, using the optional arguments--start-zip and --end-zip to specify the range of ZIP codes to pull stores for. Using the argument --workers will set the number of simultaneous requests to make while doing so. Running the script without any arguments is the same as running python3 update_db.py --start-zip 2000 --end-zip 3000 --workers 100.

To actually launch the web app, simply run python3 webapp_flask.py. Then visit http://127.0.0.1:5000/ in your web browser. Click the "Get Started" tab to a

The Architecture Review Preparation and Framing document can be found here.

Notes and reflection from the Architecure Review can be found here.

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