README.md

Search Engine

This application scrapes websites and allows you to search with query to find ten most similar pages from your the crawled.

Executable Files

Executable files in this program include our code, librabry code and test code

Our Code

• crawler.py
• searchdata.py
• search.py

Librabry Code

• webdev.py
• testingtools.py
• matmult.py

Test Code

• fruits-all-test.py
• fruits-idf-test.py
• fruits-incoming-links-test.py
• fruits-outgoing-links-test.py
• fruits-page-rank-test.py
• fruits-search-test.py
• fruits-tf-test.py
• fruits-tfidf-test.py

... and other tests which replace 'fruits' with 'fruits2'/'fruits3'/'fruits4'/'fruits5'/'tinyfruits'

How to Use this Project?

Approach 1 - search based on the websites you want

1. Include Our Code and Librabry Code to your project and import crawler and search modules: $ import crawler, search

2. Run the crawler with the website you want: $ crawler.crawl('[the website you want to crawl]')

3. Start the search with the query and whether considering page rank in your search. You will receive a list of most likely pages by running the following code: $ print(search.search('[the search query]', True/False))

Approach 2 - search based on the websites provided (run tests)

1. In the command line, run the 'fruits-all-test' test or any other test in Test Code: $ python3 fruits-all-test.py

2. Check with the output text files to tell whether the search is succssful