Google-Drive-Search-Engine

This is a complete google drive search engine API based on Flask using the Tf-Idf algorithm. The program is capable of searching through word, pdf, images (via OCR), ppt and many more file types.

Steps to run

1. Clone the repo, install the requirements.txt.
2. Then get your client_id.json from the google dashboard and use redirect URI as http://localhost:5000/oauth2callback. Place the client_id.json in the auth folder, replacing the already existing one.
3. Run the app by running command python app.js, visit URL http://localhost:5000/authenticate to authenticate from your google drive.
4. Visit URL http://localhost:5000/download_files to download all files to your pc from the Gdrive.
5. To, extract the text from ppt, jpg, png, word, txt, pdf files visit the URL http://localhost:5000/extract_text, and to run Tf-IDf across the extracted text visit index_files. Now, your files are searchable. You can search for data within your files by hitting url http://localhost:5000/search?query=testSearch with the get parameter of query.