Search-Engine-Project

The aim of this project is to develop a simple Crawler- based search engine that demonstrates the main features of a search engine (web crawling, indexing and ranking) and the interaction between them.

How to Run the project:

1. Run the Query Processor Server:

• Must have java and tomcat installed..
• Go to 'Search_Engine/src' folder
• Compile the "QueryProcessor" java class OR use the "SearchServer" class (from api/classes folder)-> dummy api
• Get .class file and put it in classes folder of WEB-INF of tomcat server;
• Also add the web.xml file there too (from api folder)
• And then run the tomcat server by running at cmd in bin folder startup.bat

2. Run cors protection:

• Must have node installed..
• Go to 'cors' folder
• do npm install cors-anywhere
• run node cors - now it's running on localhost:8000

3. Run Interface (Flutter Project):

• Must have flutter and dart installed..
• Go to 'Interface' folder
• run flutter run --no-sound-null-safety -d chrome --web-port=5555 - now it's running on localhost:5555