A search application, similar to ElasticSearch built-in Javascript. It takes in multiple paragraphs of text, assigns a unique ID To each paragraph and stores the words to paragraph mappings on an inverted index.
To run the project on your local machine, go through the following steps:
1. Verify that node-js and npm are installed in your system. For Ubuntu use the following command:
sudo apt-get install nodejs
2. Clone the project using the command:
git clone https://github.com/shivam-kapila/TapSearch
3. Open the project directory in terminal and run the following command:
node app.js
4. Open the following localhost link in any browser window: http://localhost:3000/
5. Enter the required inputs for inverted indexing the documents and search for the required word after that.
Tap Search has the following APIs:
1. clear (/api/clear) - Clear the index and all indexed documents.
2. index (/api/index) - Index a given document (After having split the input into paragraphs a.k.a documents)
3. search (/api/search) - Given a word, search for it and retrieve the top 10 paragraphs (Documents) that contain it. (/index needs to be called before /search).