Stringcompare

Stringcompare takes 2 texts in a POST request and returns a percentage of common words.

About

Stringcompare reponds to a POST request with curls default header which includes Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded This application could be upgraded later to also support other types of requests such as JSON.

This application compares the similarity of the text based on word matching of each. Sentences with a high percentage of matching words, regardless of order, will be considered similar.

Ways to improve this application:

• Giving weight to consecutive matched words would provide a better indicator of similarity.
• Allow matching of conjunctions to their non-conjoined pair with weight penalty. (can't vs can not)
• Incorporate all types of post requests.

Installation

Stringcompare can be installed as a Golang Package, executable, or as a docker container.

Golang Package

Make sure you have Golang installed per the instructions found here.

git clone https://github.com/psheets/stringcompare
cd ./stringcompare
go run main.go

Executable

Download appropriate executable for your operating system from here.

Run executable per operating systems norm.

Docker

git clone https://github.com/psheets/stringcompare
cd ./stringcompare
docker build -t stringcompare .
docker run -p 8080:8080 stringcompare

or pull from Dockerhub

docker pull psheets88/stringcompare-app:latest
docker run -p 8080:8080 stringcompare

Usage

Stringcompare will respond to a post request with a post request containing two sample texts in x-www-form-urlencoded format.

Example using CURL

curl -d "sample_one=<SAMPLE ONE HERE>&sample_two=<SAMPLE TWO HERE>" http://localhost:8080

Example using Postman

Demo

You can test this application using https://stringcompare-igftb.ondigitalocean.app

curl -d "sample_one=Test number one.&sample_two=Test number two." https://stringcompare-igftb.ondigitalocean.app