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🔹 Build Nutrition Database for Australian Macro-Tracking App (Scraping + PDF Parsing)
👤 Client: 🇦🇺 Australia Member since 2026-04-22
💰 Price: $1,200
🚩 Problem: Ensure accurate and complete nutrition data for a macro-tracking app targeting Australian supermarkets, QSRs, and health products.
📦 Existing: Not specified

Specifications:

[Format] CSV file with schema: source, brand, product_name, category, barcode, serving_size_g, energy_kj_per_serve, protein_g_per_serve, carbs_g_per_serve, fat_g_per_serve, verified, last_updated
[Stack] Python (for scraping), Pandas (for data cleaning and transformation), PDFminer.six (for PDF parsing)
[Security] Data privacy compliance with Australian standards; ensure no sensitive information is mishandled

Workflow:

Phase 1: Download Open Food Facts Australia CSV, clean dataset by removing non-food items, duplicates, and rows missing any macro field. Retain barcodes.
Phase 2: Scrape nutrition data from official Australian brand sources (McDonald's, KFC, GYG, etc.), ensuring verified=true for confirmed data only.
Phase 3: Manually collect nutrition data from specified health & protein brands sold at Woolworths/Coles.