Company Scrapper

Project developed by Okechukwu Chukwude and Habeeb Agbaje for the Global Data Competition by Innoscripta. The project uses the SERP API, OPENAPI, SERPER API and LangChain.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have the following prerequisites:

• Python 3.8 or above installed on your machine.
• SERPAPI API Key
• OPENAPI API Key
• SERPER API Key

NOTE: If the free version of the APIs above is used, the number of company searches that can be made is quite limited due to the limited number of API calls on the free version of these APIs.

Installation

Follow these steps to set up this project on your local machine:

1. Clone the repository:

  git clone https://github.com/OkeyChukwude/Company-Scrapper.git

2. Change to the project directory:

cd Company-Scrapper

3. Create and activate a virtual environment:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

On Windows Machine try

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/scripts/activate

4. Install the dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

The project uses environment variables for configuration. Create a .env file in the project root directory and add the following settings:

OPENAI_API_KEY=<YOUR OPEN API KEY>
SERPAPI_API_KEY=<YOUR SERP API KEY>
SECRET_KEY=<YOUR APP SECRET>
SERPER_API_KEY=<YOUR SERPER API KEY>

Make sure to replace <YOUR OPEN API KEY>, <YOUR SERP API KE, <YOUR APP SECRET> and <YOUR SERPER API KEY> with appropriate values.

Usage

To start the development server, run the following command:

flask run

Access the UI in your web browser at http://localhost:5000.

To access the endpoint, send a POST request to http://127.0.0.1:5000/scarpe with the following payload

{
    "name": "<Company Name>",
    "country": "<Company Country>"
    "url": "<Company URL>"
}

NOTE: The company url is optional.

You can use curl to make a POST request to the API endpoint with the following command:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
    "name": "Apple Inc.",
    "country": "US"
}' http://localhost:5000/scrape

File Structure

The project has the following file structure:

company-scrapper/
├── static/
|   ├── img/
|       ├── loading.gif
|       └── ...
|   ├── js
|       ├── app.js
|       └── ...
├── templates
|   ├── index.html
|   └── ...
├── __init__.py
├── .env
├── .gitignore
├── app.py
├── config.py
├── README.md
├── requirements.txt
├── scrapper.py
└── ...

Contact

For any questions or suggestions, please reach out to Okechukwu Chukwude or Habeeb Agbaje