Our client, a mid-sized food analytics company specializing in competitive intelligence for restaurants and food aggregators, provides real-time insights on menu pricing, customer reviews, and delivery trends. To maintain their competitive advantage, they required an automated and scalable data extraction solution for DoorDash and other food delivery platforms.
DoorDash’s platform heavily relies on JavaScript and dynamic content loading, making traditional scraping techniques ineffective.
Menu items, pricing, and availability vary by location, requiring region-based scraping for accurate insights.
The platform employs CAPTCHAs, IP rate limits, and bot detection mechanisms, making continuous data extraction challenging.
Restaurant names and menu items were often inconsistent across locations, requiring advanced matching techniques.
Restaurants frequently update prices, promotions, and availability, necessitating near real-time data extraction and updates.
We designed a multi-layered approach to extract DoorDash data efficiently:
Example: Extracted real-time restaurant menus by simulating user interactions via API requests rather than HTML scraping.
To ensure consistency across different restaurants and locations, we:
Example:
We implemented a three-layer system to accurately match restaurants and menu items:
1. Text-Based Similarity Matching:
2. Attribute-Based Matching:
3. AI-Powered Image Recognition:
Example: A "Cheeseburger" from two McDonald's locations had slight name variations but identical images, allowing our system to confirm a match.
To manage variations in menu items and promotions:
Example:
Our system flagged the extra cheese variation for manual review to prevent mismatches.
To ensure the extracted data remained up-to-date, we:
Example: : If a restaurant ran out of an item or changed a price, the system updated it within 10 minutes
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