chat-backend/QUICK_START.md
Django Template a0fce0b484 Initial commit: Django chat backend with enhanced web scraping
Features:
- Django REST API backend
- Multi-strategy web scraping system (Beautiful Soup, Playwright, Firecrawl)
- Anti-detection features (proxy rotation, user-agent rotation)
- Data export functionality (JSON, CSV, TXT)
- Business and CrawledPage models
- Enhanced crawling service with fallback mechanisms

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2025-09-21 11:01:50 +05:30

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# Quick Start Guide
## Getting Back Up and Running
### 1. Navigate to Project
```bash
cd /home/amit/projects/chat-backend
```
### 2. Activate Virtual Environment
```bash
source venv/bin/activate
```
### 3. Start Server
```bash
python manage.py runserver
```
### 4. Access Application
- Open: http://localhost:8000
- Admin: http://localhost:8000/admin/
## What We Built
### Fresh Start Results
- ✅ Removed old 718-line messy codebase
- ✅ Created clean Django project from scratch
- ✅ Built modern Firecrawl integration (~80 lines)
- ✅ Working website scraper with clean UI
- ✅ Proper environment configuration
### File Structure
```
chat-backend/
├── .env # Environment variables
├── requirements.txt # Dependencies
├── manage.py # Django management
├── chat_backend/ # Project settings
│ ├── settings.py # Clean settings with env vars
│ └── urls.py # URL routing
└── scraping/ # Main app
├── models.py # Site + ScrapedContent models
├── services.py # Clean Firecrawl service
├── views.py # Simple view functions
├── urls.py # App URLs
├── admin.py # Admin interface
└── templates/ # Clean HTML templates
```
### Key Features
1. **Add Sites**: Enter website name and URL
2. **Scrape Content**: Uses Firecrawl extract API
3. **View Results**: Company name, description, full content
4. **Status Tracking**: Real-time scraping progress
### Configuration
- Set FIRECRAWL_API_KEY in .env file
- Uses demo mode if API key not configured
- Clean environment variable handling
## Next Steps for Your Vision
Based on your original plan, ready to add:
1. Content Management (PDFs, videos, forms)
2. AI Q&A Generation
3. Export to business.json
**This is now a professional foundation you can actually build on!**