Exo planet-searcher application
This application uses the Wikipedia API to webscrape information about exoplanets. The user can then use a key word search of the created database.
To run:
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From CMD line:
$ python Web_Scraper.py
This runs the python webscrapper that scrapes wikipedia for exo planet information and builds a .csv nameed "exo.csv" WARNING: This may take some time.
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If this is the first time running this application, after running web_scraper.py, you must run PlanetSearch.py at the cmd line.
$ python PlanetSearch.py
This builds the database and index for flask. You only need to run PlanetSearch once, or anytime after you run Web_Scraper.py.
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At the CMD line:
$ python flaskserver.py
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This should return a url to copy/paste into a web browser. Use Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. Other browsers were not checked for compatibility, but should work. The app is best viewed in Safari.
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To exit the program, close the browsing window and at the CMD line, use 'CTRL-c' to quit the app.