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Elasticsearch Installation

  1. Download Elasticsearch https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch
  2. Unzip anywhere
  3. Open Terminal or the command line and navigate to the new file
  4. Enter ./bin/elasticsearch if you are on Linux or Mac, or enter bin/elasticsearch.bat if you are on Windows
  5. Go to any internet browser and enter the address http://localhost:9200/
  6. You should now see the details of your new cluster and can proceed to linking python

Python and Jupyter notebook installation

  1. Download Python 3 https://www.python.org/downloads/
  2. Once downloaded, open your terminal or command line and enter the following to install pip and virtualenv
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
pip install virtualenv
  1. Download this repository to your computer and navigate to its location using terminal or the command line
  2. Run the following to open a new environment with all the dependencies installed
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install elasticsearch jupyter notebook Flask requests
  1. Run jupyter notebook in the terminal or command line and open a notebook to start writing data to elasticsearch

Other great tutorials and resources

https://medium.com/the-andela-way/getting-started-with-elasticsearch-with-python-be8a5727c05f

https://medium.com/the-andela-way/getting-started-with-elasticsearch-python-part-two-1c0c9d1117ea

https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch