MUICT2023 ITCS414 Project 2 Section 3

This application is a full text food search engine using Elasticsearch and Flask application.

Source code for ITCS414 search engine project at Faculty of ICT, Mahidol University.

Members

• 6488004 Kittipich Aiumbhornsin
• 6488089 Pattaravit Suksri
• 6488092 Thanaphat Sumrith

Instructions

• Make sure your system has Python3 and Elastic installed.
• Navigate to the application directory and open it on the terminal.
• Run the local Elastic server on port 9200.
• Edit the file named elasticsearch_loader.py as following instructed:
  • Comment out line 7.
  • Assign your Elasticsearch password to the variable at line 9.
• On the terminal, run python elasticsearch_loader.py --file food.json --index food.
  • Please note that you might repeat this step multiple times as the amount of the .json index files in the directory.
• Create the virtual environment and activate it or install the dependencies directly.
• To install the dependencies, run the following command on the terminal: pip install -r requirements.txt.
• Edit the file named __init__.py as by assign your Elasticsearch password at line 8.
• On the terminal, run python main.py.
  • Please note that by default the application will attempt to run using production setting and the application might ran just a second, to disable this (change to development setting), edit the file named main.py as instructed below:
    • Uncomment line 12.
    • Comment out line 13.
• Open your browser, paste the following url and click go (enter): 127.0.0.1:5500.
• Explore the amazing application!

Path guideline

• / : This path is going to be redirected to /search path
• /search : Home page of the application; show search box
• /results : The path for query and will return the search results to user, if no match return not found result
• /result/lookup/<int:id> : The path for specific search result; show the whole information for particular result where <id> is the reference to the particular document
• [other path] : Should return 404 not found page

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last updated: Nov 20, 2023 at 00:59 by Kittipich