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 1 | # nutrition-data
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 3 | The USDA provides [a database of nutritional data][1], which is useful for food related
 4 | software.  It is structured as a zip of flat files and a PDF that describes the format.
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 6 | This is a quick and dirty python script that converts that zip file to a sqlite
 7 | database.  To avoid hard-coding schemas, I try to parse the schema from the `pdftotext`
 8 | output of the documentation.
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10 | To run this you will need the `requests` and `sqlite3` python modules and the 
11 | `pdftotext` executable.
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13 | The resulting database uses text fields for `NDB_NO`, per the specification in the
14 | PDF file. If you don't need an exact match for the upstream identifiers, which
15 | have leading zeros, you could convert these fields to integers.
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18 | [1]: http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=8964
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