• Matteo Pelucchi: 806798
• Luca Romanato: 807691

The following project implemented a custom search engine for tweets based on user's preferences.

• Python 3.7 or higher
• ElasticSearch free download at the following link: https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch

Clone repository:

git clone https://github.com/LucaRomanato/IR_project.git
cd IR_project

Install dependency:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Now, it is usefull to put ElastiSearch folder in the root of the project and rename ElasticSearch folder in "elasticsearch" (without quotes)

The root folder must be as follow:

C:.
│   .gitignore
│   README.md
│   requirements.txt
│
├───elasticsearch
├───pages
├───Script
└───Tweets-csv

Run ElasticSearch, you can use this command if the previous suggested commands have been executed:

./elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch

Alternatively, just start the elasticsearch file in the bin folder

Now the environment is ready, run the program with this command:

cd Script
python main.py

• Tweets are in: "Tweets-csv/crawling-tweets.csv"
• Users's bows are: in "Tweets-csv/users-bows.csv"

If you need to regenerate these files you have to lunch the following commands:

• Tweets: python -c 'import Twitter; print Twitter.getTweetPrompt()'
• Bows: python -c 'import Twitter; print Twitter.getUserPrompt()'