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Is there some way to use Lenskit as recommender engine and call him from Django/Python?

So my question is how will I be able to integrate it into Web, especialy a Django site? I know that there is PredictionIO (http://prediction.io/) that includes a Python SDK. Is there something like this for Lenskit?

I knew about Lenskit at the coursera course about Recommender Systems: https://www.coursera.org/course/recsys and i'm seeing the classes, including the one about Lenskit. I saw the documentation on the github too: https://github.com/lenskit/lenskit/wiki/GettingStarted but it's not clear to me how to integrate it into the website.

For example, with predictionio, there is this example: http://docs.prediction.io/current/tutorials/quickstart-python.html so you can use PredictionIO as a service. Is there something like this for Lenskit?

I saw this question too: How do I setup lenskit recommender toolkit to run in a website?

BUT, as i can see, is about calling it from Java.

Solution

  • In order to call LensKit from Python (or PHP, or Ruby), you will need to set up LensKit as a web service, exposing a REST API that your Python code can call.

    There is a work-in-progress example web service, but it still needs to be updated to the latest version of LensKit and documented. So right now, there is not an out-of-the-box solution for using LensKit from Python.