Movie Recommendation System

Requirements

Python 3.3+

Project Setup

Make sure you are at the root of server/ directory.

cd server

Create a virtual environment for this project with python venv

python3 -m venv venv

For Windows:

python -m venv venv

Activate the virtual environment

For Linux/MacOS, run:

source venv/bin/activate

For Windows Powershell, run:

venv/Scripts/Activate.ps1

For Windows CMD, run:

venv/Scripts/activate.bat

Install Packages

Run:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Please update the requirements.txt file when you add a new package

Run pip freeze and copy the content of the output to the requirements.txt file

Download Datasets

Run the download script to download the datasets zip file.

Run:

python data/download.py

Or

python data/download.py small

Downloads the small datasets file, ml-latest-small.zip (1MB)

python data/download.py large

Downloads the large datasets file ml-latest.zip (256MB)