A Simple Search Engine for Amazon products

A search engine based on elastic search on the 1M scrapped amazon products

Getting Started

• Used 1 GOOGLE Compute Engine for backend server
  f1-micro (1 vCPU, 0.6 GB memory) - 4.28$/month
  It is used as the backend API centre for the whole search engine

• Used 1 GOOGLE Compute Engine for the storage
  Custom(2 vCPU, 4.75 GB memory) - 45/10$/month
  It is the used as the backend storage for the search engine.
  Used ElasticDB as the storage.

API

• All Products: http://35.231.155.213:8080/products
• Full text search: http://35.231.155.213:8080/products/:searchText
  (:searchText will be replaced by the actual search text)

Prerequisites

NodeJS
ElasticDB

Installing

At first go to the folder and run

npm install

And repeat

npm start

It will start the server on localhost:8080

Built With

• NodeJS - MAin engine behind backend
• Express - The web framework
• ElasticSearch - Dependency Management

Authors

• Shubhashis Roy Dipta - Initial work - dipta007