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MunchDB

Shows hygiene ratings on popular takeaway websites

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Darian Moody
@djm_ · Developer & Maker | LDN
This is a Chrome extension, but Firefox and Opera should be going live within the next few days. A little background on the tech for those of you in to that: So there's 3 main components: the core & API, the scraper and the extension itself. We scrape the sites in question, then do the lookups ourselves in a number of different ways and record the resu… See more

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Jason Dainter
@jasondainter · International doer of things
In places like the UK (where this is mostly focused on at the moment) quite a lot of the takeaways serving food are border-line legal in terms of hygiene. In the information age, the 'ignorance is bliss' approach doesn't cut it for me any more, it's time we knew exactly what was going into that shady looking kebab you ordered on a Friday night :-) In the pa… See more
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Darian Moody
@djm_ · Developer & Maker | LDN
This is a Chrome extension, but Firefox and Opera should be going live within the next few days. A little background on the tech for those of you in to that: So there's 3 main components: the core & API, the scraper and the extension itself. We scrape the sites in question, then do the lookups ourselves in a number of different ways and record the resu… See more