How to run

Required packages

• Python 3.6
• Elasticsearch 5.6.3 (and it's python package)
• WordCloud for Python3
• Flask (http://flask.pocoo.org/)
• p7zip (sudo apt-get install p7zip-full)

Steps to run

Step 1: make a few folders

In the the folder of the search engine make three folders:

• dataset
• json_files
• json_bulks

Step 2: get a dataset

go to https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

download a few small categories from the 7z map (make sure you get the normal ones and not the meta files) place the .7z files in the dataset folder.

Step 3: parse the dataset to json bulks

• run parse_to_json.py
• then run bulk.py

Step 4: push to the server

• make sure elastic search is active
• run push_to_server.py

Step 5: open the search engine

• run html/server.py
• open browser and go to localhost:5000