Provide a user interface to query user posts by topic, symptoms, diseases, and other filtering parameters such as allowing users to query by the website that they want to see results from, etc. The application consists of a backend infrastructure and a front-end UI. These are present in the Code folder. In order to run the application, we need to ensure that the following packages and frameworks are installed. We provide the installation manual for a mac system.
brew install python3
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python3 get-pip.py
brew install solr
For the full installation guide from a tar or zip, refer the official website.
Start Apache Solr by using
solr start
For more details, for these instructions
./solr create -c Solr_sample
Use the Solr/solr.py file or the services/query.py file to index data in Apache solr using the data files present in the data directory.
To start the application, first, navigate to the api folder from the project root. Run python3 driver.py to start a server on port 5000 by default.
Navigate to the views folder and open the index.html file in a web browser. You will then see the above UI. Enter the search query for either diseases or symptoms to get the relevant posts.
Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.
Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.