ArborEats
github.com/rextlfung/ArborEats
An interactive map of food and drink deals in Ann Arbor, scraped from restaurants’ own websites and refreshed automatically every day.
- Lists food businesses inside the M-14 / US-23 / I-94 ring from OpenStreetMap, enriched with Overture Maps, and finds each one’s website, social media, and the pages likely to carry deals
- Scrapes those pages with Playwright, reads text out of deal images using Tesseract OCR, and extracts deals with a rule-based parser that only publishes the ones it is confident about
- Runs entirely locally and for free, with no API keys or accounts; a scheduled GitHub Actions workflow reruns the pipeline nightly, commits the new data, and redeploys to GitHub Pages
