Trend Search Scraper

About the project

This project is the Capstone Solo project for the Ruby section of the Microverse curriculum. It utilizes various helpful gems like Nokogiri, geocoder, and easy-translate to scrap Google Trends XML page for the latest trends for a given country.

Requirements

• Once you download the project, please make sure that you have Ruby installed.
• Make sure to run the bundle command in the terminal once you are in the working directory
• You'll also have to set up a Google API key if you need the translation feature as mentioned below You should be good to go after verifying the above details 😄

Features

Some of the features of this project include:

• Scraping Google trends XML for information

• Ability to change Country and Information limit

• Resetting values to default

• Translation of other languages to English if any (Requires Google Cloud API Key)

• Suggesting locations and prompting user based on country change input

Technologies Used

• This project utilizes the Ruby programming language

• Ruby Gems:

  • gem 'geocoder'
  • gem 'nokogiri'
  • gem 'rest-client'
  • gem 'os'
  • gem 'easy_translate'
  • gem 'dotenv'

Utilizing the translation feature

To be able to use the translation feature on one's system, you'll have to do the following:

• Gain access to the Translation API Key (More Info)
• Place the key iside .env_sample file
• Rename the .env_sample file to .env

Outputs

On the first run, the program produces the following output:

$ ruby bin/main.rb

"Please choose your option:"
"1. Show Daily Trends from the United States"
"2. Show Trends from a different country"
"3. Change Number of Trends to Show"
"4. Reset country and number of trend"
"5 or 'q' to Quit"

On requesting a change in the country, the output is as follows:

2
"Please enter the country name"
Jeju
"Did you mean South Korea? (y/n)"

Once the program gets a confirmation, the program proceeds as:

"Country changed to South Korea!"


"Please choose your option:"
"1. Show Daily Trends from  South Korea"
"2. Show Trends from a different country"
"3. Change Number of Trends to Show"
"4. Reset country and number of trend"
"5 or 'q' to Quit"

Thus creating a loop until the user quits

• Moin Khan
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