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fesja / businesstxt

Business.txt is a file that local businesses upload to their website with their business information so all website providers can update it whenever something is changed.
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Add support for company specific features. Ex: menus & products #4

Open brianpartridge opened 12 years ago

brianpartridge commented 12 years ago

This project is a great step forward to get accurate information about a business out to sites that aggregate that type of information. In particular this is beneficial for restaurants which tend to have flash based websites and are not easy for search and aggregation engines to scrape.

It would be great to add a section to the file format for specifying menu items (or just products in general) and prices. That way sites like Yelp can present at least a snippet of what is available at a particular business.

fesja commented 12 years ago

Thanks Brian for the idea. What do you think of this:

Menu Item: $1.95, Caffe Late 
Menu Item: $11.95, The Salad & Soup Bar 
Menu Item: $6.95, Chicken wings Buffalo style (spicy) 8 wings

It would be flexible to add as many items as you want, although it wouldn't be possible to separate in sections.

brianpartridge commented 12 years ago

Looks good to me. I'm not sure that you need sections, then people might just go nuts cramming in tons of info.

Although, if you find that you need sections but still want readability, you may look toward something like the INI format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ini_file

erichs commented 12 years ago

Hi! Great idea.

I like the current proposed syntax (non-INI style), as it is similar to robots.txt