Appboard Product Review Parser

Ryan Demo and Eyan Goldman

601.466/666 Information Retrieval and Web Agents (Spring 2019)

Final Project: Product Review Parser

Description

An intelligent product dashboard for mobile-oriented product managers to see aggregated ratings and common topic breakdowns from customer reviews on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

Usage

Clone the repo

1. $ git clone git@github.com:ryandemo/product-parser.git

Set up Chrome driver

1. Make sure you have Chrome downloaded. If you’re not using Chrome version 74, also download the correct Chrome driver for Selenium and put it in webservice/resources: http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads

Create a virtualenv

1. Install virtualenv: $ pip install virtualenv
2. Create a virtualenv: $ virtualenv venv

Run the webserver

1. Activate virtualenv: $ source venv/bin/activate on Mac or Linux, or $ source venv/Scripts/activate on Windows
2. Install dependencies: $ pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Change to webservice directory: $ cd webservice
4. Run app: $ python app.py
5. Open http://127.0.0.1:5000/ in a web browser

Example Links

Generate a full report: Mint App Review Report

Drill into a specific topic: "ui update" Topic Instances