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+.git/
+*.png
+local_webscrapping.py
+Procfile
+webscrapping_test1.py
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
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+# base image 
+FROM  python:3.10-alpine
+
+# sets the working directory inside the container
+WORKDIR /rubot
+
+# copies required files from the host machine into the container
+COPY ./requirements.txt . 
+COPY ./Twitter-Bot/rubot.py . 
+
+# runs the command to install dependencies
+RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+# command that will run when the container starts
+CMD [ "python", "./rubot.py" ]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# RuBot 
+
+Applying Web-Scraping to retrieve information from UFES's cafeteria menu, facilitating the acess to such information.