Content recommendation API Using Python3
- Install Docker, see https://www.docker.com/products/docker#/mac for the instructions to install it on a Mac.
- Then, in the top directory of this repository, you should be able to run the app using docker-compose. Just type
docker-compose up --build. This will download the needed packages and run the app in the foreground. - The first time you run the container, it will download and crunch the simple_wiki example. This will take about 10 minutes. You will see
Running on http://0.0.0.0:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)when it is done. - Browse to localhost:5000, you should see 'Content recommendation rocks!' as message.
- Try out the test API by using curl:
curl localhost:5000/api/recommend/v1.0/<corpus_name> -X GET -d 'url=http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/scientists-salvage-insights-from-lost-satellite', you should see a json document returned from the engine. See the list of available corpora below, you will need to add it to the API call.
The available corpora are:
wiki-simple: this currently returns the document ids and scores of the 5 most relevant articles from the simple wikipedia corpus.
If you write a new recommendation engine, it needs to inherit from Recommender base class, see /app/recommender/base.py. The API currently picks a recommendation engine randomly. To register your engine, add the module to the /app/recommender/ directory. Then, explicitly import the class in /app/app.py. This way, the class will be added to the list of subclasses of the Recommender base class.