Movie-Recommender-System

Movie Recommender API which makes use of cosine similarity to find movies similar to the one entered employing Flask as backend.

Run Locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/RampageousRJ/Movie-Recommender-System.git

Install dependencies and zipped pickle files from link

  pip install -r requirements.txt

Place the pickle files in model directory and then start the server

  export FLASK_DEBUG=1
  export FLASK_APP=app.py
  flask run

API Reference

Send a POST request to the local/hosted URL

  POST /api

Type of input for the API

Parameter	Type	Description
title	string	Enter name of the movie

Processes the movie title and returns result with all the necessary fields in a json format.