/venmo-search-frontend

Primary LanguageVueApache License 2.0Apache-2.0

Venmo Search

Deployed here:

https://reidjs.github.io/venmo-search-frontend/

About

Uses MongoDB's Atlas Search to search hundreds of thousands of Venmo transactions. Made for dev.to's mongodb hackathon

demo

Why

I built this to explore using MongoDB's Atlas Search as an alternative to ElasticSearch for full text search. I used Venmo data because

  1. it's public
  2. users are forced to leave a text "comment" for every transaction

Usage

Production

  1. Go to https://reidjs.github.io/venmo-search-frontend/
  2. Type a query

Local Development

  1. Start backend https://github.com/reidjs/venmo-search-server
  2. Start frontend with npm run dev
  3. Open browser to localhost:8000

Notes

Venmo dataset from https://github.com/sa7mon/venmo-data

  • Out of the 7,000,000 transactions, I only used about 342,000 venmo transactions (free tier Mongo Atlas)
  • To decide which transactions went into the database, I 'ranked' each transaction according to how long the comment was. Longer comment = more likely to be in database.

How to load in BSON data to atlas: mongorestore --uri mongodb+srv://[USERNAME]:[PASSWORD]@cluster0.abbj1.mongodb.net/[DATABASE] venmo.bson

How to Load in JSON data to atlas:

mongoimport --uri "mongodb+srv://[USERNAME]:[PASSWORD]@cluster0.abbj1.mongodb.net/[DATABASE]" --collection venmo --drop --file ./atlas_export.json --jsonArray