README.md

Search Engine

A crawler-based search engine, consists of six main components that are crawler, indexer, search index, ranker, query processor, and an Android application for UI support.

Technologies and Tools

• Java
• Apache Spark
• MongoDB
• Flutter

Main Structure

Search-Engine   
│
└───apt_project
│   
└───Crawler
|   │   WebCrawler.java
|   │   Crawler_Main.java
|   |   seedlist.txt
|   └── output.txt
│   
└───Backend
    └──  src/main/java
         |   Indexer.java
         |   Ranker.java
         |   Server.java
         |   PageInfo.java
         |   PageJson.java
         |   WordInfo.java
         └── Utility.java

Setup

Firstly, clone this repository

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/hazemtarekelaswad/Search-Engine.git
cd Search-Engine

Then, build the project using Maven

mvn clean install

and you will see ./target be added to the project main directory

If you don't have Maven installed in your machine, click here and follow the steps.

At this point, you have four main components to run

1. Crawler

java -cp target/SearchEngine-1.0.jar Crawler

2. Indexer

java -cp target/SearchEngine-1.0.jar Indexer

3. Server

java -cp target/SearchEngine-1.0.jar Server

4. Android Application

Build

dart pub get
flutter pub get
flutter pub outdated
flutter pub upgrade

Then run

flutter run lib/main.dart

Please, check out the collaborators and contributers sections to get to know these awesome people who helped developing this project. 💪🏽👏🏾