Flask app to sort Gmaps results by number of reviews

This app is created in python and use selenium to scrape results from google maps and show them sorted by number of reviews.

How to deploy:

Method 1: Local use

Prerequiste: Google chrome installed on system Steps:

1. Clone this repositary

2. Activate virtual environement in python

   $ source venv/bin/activate

3. Run application.py in your python environment

   $ python3 application.py

4. Open http://localhost:5000 in web browser.

Method 2: Delploy on Linux server (Amazon EC2 or Azure)

• Update server $ sudo apt update

• Install google-chrome

   $ sudo apt install wget
   $ wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
   $ sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
   $ sudo apt install 
  

• Clone this repo

• Create service file for app

  • run $ sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/gmaps.service

  • Add following in file:

     [Unit]  
     Description=Gunicorn instance for gmaps app
     After=network.target
     
     [Service]  
     User=azureuser  
     Group=www-data  
     WorkingDirectory=/home/azureuser/gmaps 
     ExecStart=/home/azureuser/gmaps/venv/bin/gunicorn --timeout 60 -b localhost:8000 application:app  
     Restart=always
     
     [Install]  
     WantedBy=multi-user.target
    

• Run following commads to enable service

   $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload  
   $ sudo systemctl start gmaps
   $ sudo systemctl enable gmaps
  

Before going to next steps enable public traffic on your server on port 80 and 443.

• Install Nginx — $ sudo apt install nginx

• Edit server config file

   $ sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
  

  • Add the following code at the top of the file (below the default comments)

    upstream gmaps {  
        server 127.0.0.1:8000;  
    }
    

  • Add a proxy_pass to gmaps atlocation /

     #Some code above
     location / {  
     proxy_pass http://gmaps;  
     }
     #some code below
    

• Start Nginx by using following commands

   $ sudo systemctl start nginx  
   $ sudo systemctl enable nginx
  

Go to your public IP address to see the web app. Use http:// instead of https://.