Use Dash to Build to Web Apps on Tavily Data

The rich ecosystem of Python modules lets you get to work quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. With the CData API Driver for Python, the pandas module, and the Dash framework, you can build Tavily-connected web applications for Tavily data. This article shows how to connect to Tavily with the CData Connector and use pandas and Dash to build a simple web app for visualizing Tavily data.

With built-in, optimized data processing, the CData Python Connector offers unmatched performance for interacting with live Tavily data in Python. When you issue complex SQL queries from Tavily, the driver pushes supported SQL operations, like filters and aggregations, directly to Tavily and utilizes the embedded SQL engine to process unsupported operations client-side (often SQL functions and JOIN operations).

Connecting to Tavily Data

Connecting to Tavily data looks just like connecting to any relational data source. Create a connection string using the required connection properties. For this article, you will pass the connection string as a parameter to the create_engine function.

Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the Tavily Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Tavily.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Tavily (see below).

Tavily API Profile Settings

Obtain your API key from your Tavily account dashboard after signing up or logging in.

After installing the CData Tavily Connector, follow the procedure below to install the other required modules and start accessing Tavily through Python objects.

Install Required Modules

Use the pip utility to install the required modules and frameworks:

pip install pandas
pip install dash
pip install dash-daq

Visualize Tavily Data in Python

Once the required modules and frameworks are installed, we are ready to build our web app. Code snippets follow, but the full source code is available at the end of the article.

First, be sure to import the modules (including the CData Connector) with the following:

import os
import dash
import dash_core_components as dcc
import dash_html_components as html
import pandas as pd
import cdata.api as mod
import plotly.graph_objs as go

You can now connect with a connection string. Use the connect function for the CData Tavily Connector to create a connection for working with Tavily data.

cnxn = mod.connect("Profile=C:\profiles\Tavily.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_api_key';")

Execute SQL to Tavily

Use the read_sql function from pandas to execute any SQL statement and store the result set in a DataFrame.

df = pd.read_sql("SELECT Query, Answer FROM Search WHERE Query = 'artificial intelligence'", cnxn)

Configure the Web App

With the query results stored in a DataFrame, we can begin configuring the web app, assigning a name, stylesheet, and title.

app_name = 'dash-apiedataplot'

external_stylesheets = ['https://codepen.io/chriddyp/pen/bWLwgP.css']

app = dash.Dash(__name__, external_stylesheets=external_stylesheets)
app.title = 'CData + Dash'

Configure the Layout

The next step is to create a bar graph based on our Tavily data and configure the app layout.

trace = go.Bar(x=df.Query, y=df.Answer, name='Query')

app.layout = html.Div(children=[html.H1("CData Extension + Dash", style={'textAlign': 'center'}),
	dcc.Graph(
		id='example-graph',
		figure={
			'data': [trace],
			'layout':
			go.Layout(title='Tavily Search Data', barmode='stack')
		})
], className="container")

Set the App to Run

With the connection, app, and layout configured, we are ready to run the app. The last lines of Python code follow.

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run_server(debug=True)

Now, use Python to run the web app and a browser to view the Tavily data.

python api-dash.py

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Full Source Code

import os
import dash
import dash_core_components as dcc
import dash_html_components as html
import pandas as pd
import cdata.api as mod
import plotly.graph_objs as go

cnxn = mod.connect("Profile=C:\profiles\Tavily.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_api_key';")

df = pd.read_sql("SELECT Query, Answer FROM Search WHERE Query = 'artificial intelligence'", cnxn)
app_name = 'dash-apidataplot'

external_stylesheets = ['https://codepen.io/chriddyp/pen/bWLwgP.css']

app = dash.Dash(__name__, external_stylesheets=external_stylesheets)
app.title = 'CData + Dash'
trace = go.Bar(x=df.Query, y=df.Answer, name='Query')

app.layout = html.Div(children=[html.H1("CData Extension + Dash", style={'textAlign': 'center'}),
	dcc.Graph(
		id='example-graph',
		figure={
			'data': [trace],
			'layout':
			go.Layout(title='Tavily Search Data', barmode='stack')
		})
], className="container")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run_server(debug=True)