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This is the Movie Recommendation System project using a Content-Based recommender system trained on more than 5000 movies for generating movie recommendations based on user search.

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Movie-Recommendation-System

This is the Movie Recommendation System, to get personlized movie recommendations for a movie search.

Description

The project Movie Recommendation System, uses a Content-Based Machine learning recommendation approach to determine movie recommendations based on user search.

Characteristic functionalities

Realtime search of movie information from IMDB's official data.
Content-Based recommendeer system for getting recommendations for the searches.
Full-responsive design of the application.

Tech Stack

React.js is used for Frontend.

Flask is used in the backend. The API endpoint for getting the recommmendations is setup with cross-site-origin access.
Scikit Learn Count-Vectorizer Scikit-Learn's CountVectorizer is used for preperation of the Recomendeer system. The Cosine similarity parameter is used for finding the closest neigbhours. The top 10 movies with closest similarity score are selected.
Tmdb is used to fetch the attribute information and image data of movies and recommendations in realtime accoriding to official IMDB's records.
Heroku The application is deployed live on Heroku, using gunicorn static-file web server.

Prototype

Homepage

About-Movie

Cast-Details

Recommendations

Setup Process

For setting up the project on a local machine:

Fork this repository.

Clone the repository using simple zip download or use the command

    git clone https://github.com/Kawaljeet2001/Movie-Recommendation-System

Move to the master branch by using command
```
    git checkout  master
```

Create a virtual environment for the project

    pip install virtualenv
    for windows: virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 env_name
    for linux(ubuntu): virtualenv env_name

Activate the Virtual environment
```
   source env_name/bin/activate
```
Once the virtual environment is activated, the name of your virtual environment will appear on left side of terminal. This will let you know that the virtual environment is currently active.
Install all the dependencies
```
   pip install -r requirements.txt
```
To start the app on the developement server, run the command
```
    python app.py
```