ChowNow Scraper: Scalable Restaurant Menu and Pricing Intelligence

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

REQUEST_HEADERS = {
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)",
    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml",
    "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.8"
}

def fetch_chownow_menu_data(page_url):
    response = requests.get(page_url, headers=REQUEST_HEADERS, timeout=15)

    if response.status_code != 200:
        return {"error": "Unable to retrieve page content"}

    document = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")

    menu_item = document.select_one("h2.menu-item-name")
    item_price = document.select_one("span.menu-item-price")
    item_rating = document.select_one("div.rating-score")
    availability_flag = document.select_one("span.item-availability")

    extracted_data = {
        "Menu_Item": menu_item.get_text(strip=True) if menu_item else "Not Available",
        "Price": item_price.get_text(strip=True) if item_price else "Not Listed",
        "Rating": item_rating.get_text(strip=True) if item_rating else "No Ratings",
        "Availability": availability_flag.get_text(strip=True) if availability_flag else "Status Unknown"
    }

    return extracted_data

# Example ChowNow restaurant menu URL
chownow_menu_url = "https://direct.chownow.com/example-restaurant/menu"
menu_data = fetch_chownow_menu_data(chownow_menu_url)
print(menu_data)