Clothing Finder

A web system that crawls and displays clothing products. The system is composed of the following parts:

• A database (elasticsearch) to store the crawled data and keep it updated.
• A backend system that performs the following tasks:
  • Crawls products using python. New products are added and existing products in the database are updated.
  • Interacts between the frontend and the database using flask.
• A frontend system that consists of a Product Listing Page, displaying the products as follows:

Getting Started

First, install elasticsearch:

How to Install and Configure Elasticsearch on Ubuntu?

Run the following commands to create docker image and run the container:

$ docker build -t clothing_finder_ui ./crawler
$ docker run --network host clothing_finder_crawler

$ docker build -t clothing_finder_ui ./service
$ docker run -p 5000:5000 --network host clothing_finder_service

$ docker build -t clothing_finder_ui ./ui/ReactFakeShop
$ docker run -p 3000:3000 --network host clothing_finder_ui

Built With

• Flask for the webservice
• React for the UI
• Python for the crawler