🍜 Food Chatbot

A chatbot that integrates the Line ChatBot API and web crawling to help users find Taiwanese food.

✨ Features

✔️ Search for food recommendations via Line chatbot
✔️ Scrape real-time food information (ratings, prices, menus, etc.)
✔️ Automatically respond to user input and suggest suitable restaurants or street food
✔️ Deploy on Heroku for continuous operation

🚀 Project Structure

1️⃣ API Integration

• Uses Line Messaging API to receive and respond to user messages
• Parses user input to determine search queries

2️⃣ Web Crawling

• Scrapes real-time food data from various online sources
• Extracts restaurant ratings, menus, and user reviews

3️⃣ Deployment & Hosting

• Hosted on Heroku for seamless and continuous operation
• Uses a database (e.g., PostgreSQL) to store frequently searched results

📌 How to Use

1️⃣ Add the official Line chatbot account
2️⃣ Send a message with the food or restaurant you’re looking for
3️⃣ Receive instant recommendations with relevant details

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Python (Flask, Requests, BeautifulSoup)
• Line Messaging API
• Web Scraping (BeautifulSoup, Selenium)
• Heroku (Deployment & Hosting)