A simple api end point to get reviews for a specified grubhub restaurant page.

• Python 3.7
• VirtualEnv (should comne with 3.7 by default)
• pip (should come with 3.7 by default)

I develop in a windows environment, so the unix commands come straight from the flask installation/quickstart guide. I tested them using the linux shell in vs code, so they should work. HOWEVER I wasn't able to test the setups for Linux and Mac. In the worst case, see the links at the bottom to download the chrome drivers without using the setup files.

• Navigate to project folder
• Create virtual environment (please use venv so the chromedriver is in the correct place)
  • Unix: python3 -m venv venv
  • Windows: py -3 -m venv venv
• Activate venv
  • Unix: . venv/bin/activate
  • Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
• Install requirements
  • pip install -r requirements.txt
• Set application path
  • Unix: export FLASK_APP=app.py
  • Windows
    • cmd: set FLASK_APP=app.py
    • Powershell: $env:FLASK_APP = "app.py"
• Run setup file to install chrome driver
  • Windows: py setup_windows.py
  • Linux: python3 setup_linux.py
  • Mac: python3 setup_mac.py
• Run application
  • All environments: flask run
• Use the endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:5000/scrape_reviews (accepts a post, expecting 'url' in the body as form data)
  • curl -X POST -F 'url=https://www.grubhub.com/restaurant/burrito-king-408-e-green-st-champaign/262953' http://127.0.0.1:5000/scrape_reviews

Tests are located in test folders under the folder the code being tested is located in. (for app.py, '/Review-Scraper/Tests/app-tests.py' etc) I used nosetest to run them, which should be installed from the requirements.txt

• Any environment, in the root project folder: nosetests

In order to easily use selenium, I drop the chromedriver right next to the virtualenv python executable. While I tried to automate this as much as possible, if you're on a different version of chrome or the Linux/Mac setup scripts don't work, I wanted to provide the links to download the chrome driver.

• The main download page is here: http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
• If on Linux or Mac:
  • Drop the extracted executable into the /venv/bin folder
  • Run chmod 755 on the executable
• If on Windows:
  • Drop the extracted executable into the /venv/Scripts folder
• Alternatively, you can install the chrome driver wherever and set the environment path (may still have to run chmod on the executable)
• • See: http://chromedriver.chromium.org/getting-started