cars2go is a web application deployed on heroku platform (https://cars2go.herokuapp.com) It provides an user interface to search for used cars. The website has various search parameters like car make, model, year, price range etc. The database currently has used cars infromation from truecar.com and autotrader.com. This can be extended to more websites.

The web crawler and scrapper are run locally and database is updated at the heroku platform. Information about used cars are updated once a week.

1. First create a virtual enviorment

   python -m venv env
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

2. Configure the app settings and DATABASE_URL info in .env file.

   source .env 
   

3. Running web crawler

   python setup_crawler_truecar.py setup_crawler_autotrader.py
   python reset_db.py
   python crawler_truecar.py crawler_autotrader.py
   

4. Migrating local database

   python manage.py db init
   python manage.py db migrate
   python manage.py db upgrade
   

5. Running web app on localhost (127.0.0.1:5000)

   python app.py