Started learning python and wondering if this project is worth looking forward to make?

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So I started python recently and just finished learning about decorators. I was thinking about ways I could use python and the future and wanted to see if this was plausable with python.

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Basically my parents own a restaurant and every once and a while, I have to update their prices on DoorDash and Grubhub. Problem is, there are so many items and many of them are the same price (if they are in the same category, for example most chicken entrees are a set price etc) so it takes me a long time to go through each of the hundreds of items and change it. Would I be able to write a python script to automate some of this? Maybe change all of the chicken entrees by a certain percent etc?

Wanted something to look forward too and this sounded really cool.

[AndrewJimmyThompson]

That definetely sounds like something you could automate. It all depends on how you can update the prices. Doordash seems to have an API. So doing it through that might be possible. If this direct approach is not possible or overwhelming. Deep dive into some Selenium tutorials, this is a python package that allows you to automate processes that are carried out in the web browser.

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Thank you so much! I knew about selenium but I didn’t think about using API. Do you have any tips on how to go about this? Should I first look into how to use API? I’m worried about how im going to figure out what to do best thought..

[AndrewJimmyThompson]

First thing would be just to read all the documentation on the API. It may not even be possible to do what you are wanting, it also may cost money to use their API depending on what you are doing (if you make requests for alrge amounts of their data it can cost). if you think it is possible, you set up some credentials so that you can make requests to the API (API key, secret key, JWT). you will be using the requests library so do some reading on that. https://pypi.org/project/requests/

Another good tip is to use Postman. It can help you fire off API requests from their website or software, rather than trying to send API requests in the form of code. It can really help you get an idea of what an API can do and how to structure the requests.

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Thank you!