I built a Flask app that lets you search for clinical trials

I've been playing around with Flask since finishing the basics course and I love it.

I've been working on a Flask app with an Elasticsearch backend that let's you search for clinical trials.

There's a python script that downloads a zip file from clinicaltrials.org, unzips the files and places the contents (a collection of xml files, one file for each trial) in a folder.

Then I iterate over each file pulling out the info I want and putting it into an Elasticsearch document using elasticsearch-py.

Then I wrote a Flask app to search ES using Bootstrap as my front end framework.

I've got it deployed to DigitalOcean, but honestly I'm not sure how this is serving up pages because I'm fairly certain I stopped the process, but hey, it's working so I'll run with it.

If you want to test the searches try terms like 'lung', 'cancer', 'renal', or 'sarcoma'. And be sure to read the Search Help or any Lucene or Elasticsearch query docs.

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Kenneth Love