flask elasticsearch

Flask Elasticsearch

An implementation of full text search for users to find information on a site using natural language.

About Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is an open-source full-text search engine.

Getting Started

I've implemented all the text indexing and searching functions in a way that is very easy for you to switch to another engine. This will allow you to replace my implementation with any alternative search engines: Apache Solr, Whoosh, Xapian, Sphinx

Prerequisites

• Elasticsearch

• Python 3.8.10 or higher

Installing Elasticsearch

The documentation for Elasticsearch has an Installation page with detailed information on how to install it.

You can also read through how I set it up on my pc - Setting-up-elastic-search-locally

To verify that you've installed Elasticsearch on your computer run https:localhost:9200 on your browser. This should return some basic information abou the service in JSON format.

Project setup

# clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/AMuriuki/flask-elasticsearch.git

# enter the project directory
$ cd flask-elasticsearch

Create & activate virtual environment

# included on all recent Python version
$ python3 -m venv venv

# activating the virtual env
$ . venv/bin/activate

# if using Microsoft Windows CMD
$ venvScriptsactivate

Initialize database

# migrate files to db
$ flask db upgrade