Office Lunch Board

Simple, config-driven lunch menu collector for nearby restaurants.

• Scrapes each source website with requests + BeautifulSoup.
• Writes a single local snapshot file: data/current_menu.json.
• Keeps the last successful menu when a restaurant removes menu later in the day.
• Displays only current day from weekly menus.

Project Structure

• config/restaurants.yaml source list and stale policy
• scraper/update_menus.py scraper and aggregator
• data/current_menu.json generated snapshot (overwritten each run)
• web/ static UI
• scripts/update_menus.sh cron-friendly runner

Quick Start

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 scraper/update_menus.py

Then run a static server from repo root:

python3 -m http.server 8080

Open http://localhost:8080/web/.

Add New Restaurant

Edit config/restaurants.yaml and add a new entry:

- id: my-restaurant
  name: My Restaurant
  parser: formanka
  url: https://example.com/menu

Available parser values in this version:

• formanka
• tradice
• zlatyklas

If a new site has different HTML, add a parser function in scraper/update_menus.py and register it in parsers map.

Cron Job

Run every 30 minutes in business hours:

*/30 7-16 * * 1-5 cd /var/www/obidek && /bin/bash scripts/update_menus.sh >> /var/log/obidek-update.log 2>&1

Optional safety refresh at 17:10:

10 17 * * 1-5 cd /var/www/obidek && /bin/bash scripts/update_menus.sh >> /var/log/obidek-update.log 2>&1

Nginx Example

Point web root to repository folder:

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name lunch.your-domain.tld;

  root /var/www/obidekvs;
  index web/index.html;

  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /web/index.html;
  }

  location /data/ {
    add_header Cache-Control "no-store";
  }
}

Notes About Menus Removed After 15:00

The scraper has a stale policy in config/restaurants.yaml:

stale_policy:
  keep_last_successful: true
  hold_after_hour: 15
  max_age_hours: 36

If a website becomes empty/unavailable in the afternoon, last successful menu is kept (status: stale-kept) so your display stays useful.