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