Local Business Finder (United States)

A web application for searching small businesses in the United States by state and city/zip code.

Features:

Web Scraper:

• Scrapes small business data (city/zip code level) from Small Business Administration(SBA)'s DSBS using Python.
• Utilizes BeautifulSoup to parse HTML data from each page.
• Pandas is used for cleaning and processing the scraped data.
• Data is stored in an SQLite database.

Backend:

• Flask server with a basic API to query the SQLite database by state and city.

Frontend:

• React app for the user interface.
• Uses React-Bootstrap for responsive design.
• React-Select is used for state and city selection.

Instruction:

• Idk figure what packages you need to install
• cd into my-app
• npm start