Scenario of the Month - September edition

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Hey Makers :wave:

Today, we’re thrilled to share a cool automation straight from our team.
These stories give you a peek behind the curtain and show how we use Make internally to supercharge our workflows. Let’s get started!


Every day, around lunch time I would go, open my 3 favorite restaurant’s websites and look for the daily menus on these sites which often requires multiple clicks and scrolling. However "first-world-problem"y this might sound, it’s real. At least to me, it is.
Is it a problem worth solving? Likely not, but it cost us nothing and was fun for me to solve.


:hammer_and_wrench: What it does

  1. I get the HTML content of the restaurant websites
  2. Either I parse it manually or, if the HTML structure is more complicated (eg. menu’s for the whole week are present in the HTML and you have to grab the one for today), I use AI to extract this information for me
  3. Store this information in a JSON with the exact same structure for each of the restaurants
  4. Craft a nicely looking Slack message that gets posted to a public channel for everyone in our office

:framed_picture: What it looks like







:gift: Benefits


I did something I love - building scenarios. And by doing that I’ve made it a bit simpler for people in my team/our office to pick where to eat.


:muscle: Give it a go

Feel free to grab the blueprint below, upload it to your Make editor and try out the automation yourself!

:point_right: Scenario blueprint :point_left:





Toolkit

:make: Slack on Make
:make: Our new Make AI feature