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Yasmeen Noor
Yasmeen Noor

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Building a Menu Scraper with Python: A Case Study on the Dairy Queen Menu

Briefly introduce web scraping and its applications in data gathering for developers.

Mention how fast-food chains like Dairy Queen often have menus that users want to search, analyze, or compare.

What I Built

Share your experience (real or simulated) of building a simple Python scraper using tools like BeautifulSoup or Scrapy to extract the Dairy Queen menu items.

Explain how structured data can help users make better food choices or fuel other apps.

Code Snippet

Provide example code that fetches menu categories and items.

Emphasize respect for robots.txt and ethical scraping practices.

Use Cases

Ideas: building a calorie calculator, food allergen filter, or restaurant locator app.

How scraped data can integrate into nutrition-based or restaurant-focused apps.

Conclusion + Organic Backlink

Wrap up with insights about working with live menus and real-world content.

Mention that if readers are interested in seeing the real menu layout and offerings, they can explore the actual Dairy Queen menu (hyperlink your target page naturally, without promotional language).

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