cs446-server

Server for CS446 project

Run flask server

export FLASK_APP=app.py
flask run

API

GET /words

• Returns list of 10 words

Useful scripts

To ingest new words into mongodb:

How to Scrape words

1. Create an Oxford Dictionary API account at https://developer.oxforddictionaries.com/signup?plan_ids[]=2357356361005
2. Create a .env file in directory of cs446-server/ containing mongodb and oxford API credentials
   • Replace OXFORD_APP_ID and OXFORD_SECRET env variables with your Application ID and Application Key
3. python scrape_oxford.py - this randomly samples words.txt and appends words to parsed_words_us.txt and parsed_words_uk.txt
4. python upload_words.py - this ingests the words from parsed_words_us.txt and parsed_words_uk.txt into mongodb