Parents built a school app. Then the city called the cops

Re:Parents built a school app. Then the city called the cops by krony on Saturday November 06, 2021 @02:52PM (#29132810)

Ha, maybe! We got lucky that Papillion’s menu has a json feed. If Elkhorn does too then it’s doable. But seems most districts are stuck in pdf files

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Re:Parents built a school app. Then the city called the cops by laumars on Saturday November 06, 2021 @03:18PM (#29133013)

Still doable. AWS have a tool for parsing JSON files and turning them into a JSON feed: Textract. Given you’d already be inside the AWS ecosystem building the Alexa skill, it would make some sense leveraging that service.

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Re:Parents built a school app. Then the city called the cops by krony on Saturday November 06, 2021 @06:50PM (#29134594)

Oh yeah, for sure possible, I just meant doable in the “easily extend the current pattern in an evening or two” kind of way, ha!

But hey, if a district or school menu software company wanted to sponsor it, it could absolutely get done

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