Generating a Yelp Profile

The purpose of our project is to develop a web application that scrapes consumer reviews on Yelp to build profiles that showcase their knowledge and expertise. Additionally, the research will utilize natural language processing to analyze data and build user profiles. As a result, Yelp users will be able to share their profiles over social media, which will further incentivize them to continue reviewing and contributing quality content.

Authors

• Peyton Wang (peyton-a-wang)
• Alexandra Bullen-Smith (abullensmith)
• Marisa Papagelis (marisapapagelis)

About

• Program: MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)
• Credits: Erez Yoeli, Mohsen Mosleh
• Fall 2019 - Fall 2020

Set-up

Flask

1. Install dependencies:

   pip3 install -r requirements.txt
   

2. Get Google API credentials:

   export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="../name-xxxxxxxxxxxx.json"
   

3. Run app.py from the app directory.

   python3 app.py
   

4. Visit http://0.0.0.0:5000/ in your browser.