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+# IIITB_Menu Excel File Scraper Code
+Code for building the bi-weekly food menu database for use in the web app.
+Two files are created, one of them is the JSON database file `menu.json` and the other is the md5 hash of the json data `hash.txt`. 
+The app checks for update in hash and downloads the new menu file if required.
+The menu stays persistently on the device's web cache allowing for offline app usage.
+
+# Automation
+The menu has to be downloaded from the shared Excel Online link as ODS, be loaded into pandas, save as CSV and pushed to this branch.
+This will create a new release/file in the repo which are the sources for the web app.