Mini Search Engine

Search a recipe collection with a query parser and evaluation engine allowing arbitrary boolean queries

Installation

Create a virtual environment and use the package manager pip to install the dependencies.

# Create the virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv

# Activate the virtual environment
.\venv\Scripts\activate.bat # on Windows
. venv/bin/activate # on macOS/Linux

# Install the dependencies
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Populate some test data:

$ python database.py

To search from the command line:

$ python main.py

To run the API server:

$ python server.py

From another terminal, make a request:

$ curl -G "http://localhost:5000/api/v1/search" \
  --data-urlencode "q=(butter and (egg or taro)) and not (caramel or salt)"

{
  "results":[
    {
      "title":"french toast",
      "body":"toast butter milk egg"
    },
    {
      "title":"pancakes",
      "body":"butter flour water sugar baking-soda egg"
    }
  ]
}