UHC Search Engine

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A Flask-based search engine which allows a user to search for UHC plans and corresponding file URLs provided on https://transparency-in-coverage.uhc.com.

It has three modules

1. Scraper - Scrapes JSON files' URLs from UHC website.
2. JSON Downloader - Downloads, formats and merges all the JSON files.
3. Flask Application - A search engine to query the centralized JSON files database.

Table of contents

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1. Requirements
2. Directory Structure
3. Setup Project

1. Requirements

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1. Python 3.9.x
2. ChromeDriver 106.0.5249.61+ (https://chromedriver.chromium.org/getting-started)

2. Directory Structure

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Clone the repository.

    git clone https://github.com/ahmadjanan/uhc-search-engine.git

3. Setup Project

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• Install requirements

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• Scrape and extract JSON URLs from webite.

  python scraper.py  
  

• Download JSON files and populate backend database.

  python json_downloader.py
  

• Run server.

  python server.py