[kekeke] InstantReviewer

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  The shown sentiments for McDonald's

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  Starting page to send query

Inspiration

Whenever we see new items, we always spend a lot of time researching how good the actual product is and we felt like we could cut down this time while providing good insights.

What it does

Ever saw a product or new store and wondered what people have to say about it? Spending countless of hours reading numerous articles on their reviews? InstantReviewer provides an easier way to do this: Consolidating the buzz words surrounding the product to make reviewing products and stores easier.

How we built it

For the front end we used Flask and the data is served using a script that scrapes the top Google searches for reviews of the product queried.

Challenges we ran into

New to Flask and web scraping - Google kept flagging us as spam NLP algorithm not perfectly done to filter out the appropriate words but still works to a decent extent.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Coming up with a final working product

What we learned

Flask and web scraping! And that web scraping is difficult with Google given how often it flags spam

What's next for InstantReviewer

• Delete wordclouds after generating webpages
• Improve UI/UX
• Include back button/allow searching again more easily

Built With

• flask
• google
• python