businext.ai

Businext – the business insight extractor and interpreter – is an open-source tool that makes it easy to get answers about a business. Watch our introductory video by clicking below:

Configurations

To set up this project, the following must be configured:

• data provider
• extraction provider
• interpretation provider

These configurations set the api keys for the various services that are used throughout the project. These are to be set in a .env file in the root directory of the project.

Environment Variable Name	Value Format	Example	Explanation
BUSINESS_API_CONFIG	JSON	Click here to go to the example	Serialized Configuration object containing your confidential information to access the APIs.
IMAGE_PROVIDERS	STRING	IMAGE_PROVIDERS=YELP,GOOGLE_PLACES,MOCK	Configures which image provider to use and each provider is comma separated. A list of the providers and a brief explanation of them can be found here.
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS	PATH	GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="/home/user/Downloads/service-account-file.json"	Provides authentication credentials to your application code. For an explanation on how to obtain this file, refer to the Google Vision documentation linked here.

BUSINESS_API_CONFIG Example

BUSINESS_API_CONFIG='{"googlePlaces":{"apiKey":"your-api-key"},"yelp":{"apiKey":"your-api-key","clientID":"your-client-ID"},"openCage":{"apiKey":"your-api-key"}}'

This is what it looks like as a JSON object:

{
	"googlePlaces": {
		"apiKey": "your-api-key"
	},
	"yelp": {
		"apiKey": "your-api-key",
		"clientID": "your-client-ID"
	},
	"openCage": {
		"apiKey": "your-api-key"
	}
}