Iris Web Backend

This is a service to find the shortest path between two wikipedia pages by going through links in a page

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Functionalities

• API to return shortest path between two pages
• API to discover nodes from one given page
• Visualization Tool

Instructions to run

• Pre-requisites:

  • Python and pip installed
  • An active internet connection

• Create and activate the virtual environment

sudo pip3 install virtualenv
virtualenv env

• Now for Windows:

.\env\Scripts\activate

• For MacOS and Linux

source env/bin/activate

• Install the dependencies

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

• To start the server

export FLASK_APP=main.py
flask run

• To start the visualization tool

python3 vis.py

Contributors

Md Hishaam Akhtar

Sharanya Mukherjee

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