simple-cars.com-API

This project fethces information from cars.com and provides it through an API.

Project consisted of three main stages:

Writing web scrapper for fething information from cars.com
Saving fetched data into mySQL
Provide API

First two is done by scripts in api/utils, while providing API utilizes Django Rest Framework.

Run

To initialize dataset, first run python manage.py shell in root directory. Then in the shell run following lines,

from api.utils.write_database import main
main()

After initialization you should do the following to run server,

python manage.py runserver

Now you can access API with,

http://localhost:8000/api

or make some filtering,

http://localhost:8000/api/?ext_color=black&transmission=automatic&&brand=BMW&&year=2012

which results in following,

[
    {
        "brand": "BMW",
        "price": "17400",
        "year": "2012",
        "model": "750 i xDrive",
        "ext_color": "black",
        "int_color": "black",
        "transmission": "automatic",
        "contact": "(404) 935-6893"
    }
]

Note: Don't forget to edit mySQL configurations in settings.py. They are currently configured for my local computer.

TODO

Write django custom command to more elegant initilazation. Current one requires opening django shell.
Configure Docker.

CagriUysal/simple-cars.com-API

simple-cars.com-API

Run

TODO