Colophon
Give Food is built using Django hosted by Mythic Beasts using Coolify and fronted by Cloudflare.
Libraries
beautifulsoup4, dicttoxml, django, django-bulma, django-csp, django-csp-reports, django-earthdistance, django-session-csrf, feedparser, furl, google-api-python-client, google-cloud-translate, google-generativeai, gunicorn, openai, psycopg2-binary, python-dateutil, python-dotenv, pyyaml, requests, requests-toolbelt, requirements-parser, setuptools, unicodecsv, whitenoise
Changelog
July 5, 2025
Item group dashboard
July 3, 2025
Calculate foodbank footprint sizes
Add fields to dumps
June 28, 2025
More charity information displayed
June 15, 2025
Ability to show food banks inside schools
June 10, 2025
Fix server-side geolocation
June 9, 2025
Use 'foodbank' rather than 'food bank' to describe an individual organisation after external advice
May 17, 2025
Better display of opening times on donation point pages
April 28, 2025
Move the app from Google Cloud to Mythic Beasts
April 3, 2025
AI based order text parsing
March 30, 2025
Add Português, Español, العربية languages
March 27, 2025
Preloading speed ups
March 10, 2025
Translated need and excess text
Feb. 26, 2025
Add Polski, Română, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, اردو languages
Feb. 25, 2025
Fix some translations
Feb. 15, 2025
Add colophon
Feb. 10, 2025
Page flagging system
Remove food bank editing interface
Feb. 5, 2025
Use gemini-2.0-flash AI model
Feb. 4, 2025
Display more location photos
Feb. 2, 2025
Show more donation point photos
Feb. 1, 2025
Resized donation point photos
Jan. 31, 2025
Count food bank need hits on search results
Jan. 29, 2025
Last updated data on data dumps
Change language switcher flags from emoji to SVGs
Tweak frag URLs
Jan. 27, 2025
Don't autofocus address field if it's already filled out
Improved search result preloading
Places in sitemap
Jan. 26, 2025
Rebuild search
Jan. 25, 2025
Include querystring on language switcher URLs
Need hit count in footer
Don't preload the Use My Location button
Jan. 24, 2025
Fix search in Channel Islands
Simplify search
Jan. 20, 2025
Speed up search
Jan. 19, 2025
Speed up search
Jan. 17, 2025
Speed up search
Jan. 11, 2025
Fix fonts
Jan. 10, 2025
Improved hit counting
Jan. 9, 2025
Subscribe form on donation point page
Centralise human test
Jan. 6, 2025
Add data dumps
Trussell finder tool
Dec. 30, 2024
2024 annual report
Use gemini-1.5-pro AI model
Dec. 28, 2024
Improved charity commission link
Dec. 22, 2024
Better food bank alt_name display
Dec. 19, 2024
Improved need check AI prompt
Dec. 16, 2024
Mapping improvements
Better preloading
Dec. 12, 2024
Fix geojson URL
Django upgrade
Use gemini-2.0-flash-exp AI model
FSA data
Tweak need finder prompt to correct spelling mistakes
Improved need comparison
Dec. 10, 2024
Tweak sitemap
Better logo
Dec. 9, 2024
noindex on registration form
Update bank holidays
Dec. 6, 2024
Cache managed donation page
Dec. 6, 2024
Reduce need check temperature
Need check prompt tweak
Need input method descriptions
Dec. 1, 2024
Managed donation page
Fix geojson URLs
Uncrawlable donation pages
Nov. 24, 2024
Improved schema.org data
Nov. 22, 2024
Improved need checker
Nov. 21, 2024
Untranslatable URLs
Nov. 11, 2024
Trussell Trust -> Trussell
Nov. 7, 2024
Admin need page revamp
Oct. 25, 2024
AI-based need crawling
Oct. 23, 2024
Scottish Gaelic support
Sept. 26, 2024
Welsh support