Search Engine for Sinhala Songs

Quickstart

• Start elasticsearch on port 9200
• Run the command python3 run.py
• Visit localhost:5000
• Enter the search phrase in the search box

Technology used

• Elasticsearch 7.7.1
• Elasticsearch DSL 7.2.0
• Python 3.6.3
• Flask 1.1.2
• Scrapy 2.1.0

Directory Structure

|-- app
   |-- templtes   : UI files
   |-- app.py     : flask backend
   |-- search.py  : elasticsearch queries
|-- songs_scraper : scripts to scrape lyrics and metadata from https://sinhalasongbook.com/
   |-- songs.json : scrapped data
|-- constants.py  : index_name and doc_type as constants
|-- run.py        : start the search engine

Main Functionalities

• Faceted search
• Range queries
• Advance search
• Wildcard query support

Corpus

Scraped https://sinhalasongbook.com/ to get lyrics and meta-data for 500 Sinhala songs

• Meta-data scrapped
  • Artist
  • Lyric writer
  • Composer
  • Song title
  • Genre
  • Beat
  • Key
  • Number of views

Supported Queries (examples)

• මිල්ටන් ගැයූ ගී
• ප්රේමකීර්ති ලියපු සින්දු
• ප්රේමකීර්ති ලියු ජනප්‍රිය ගීත 10 ක්
• ප්‍රසිද්ධ සම්භාව්ය ගීත
• කපුගේ කියන සම්භාව්ය ගීත