# Random Search Query Generator

A Python tool that generates realistic, varied search queries using part-of-speech tagging. Each query mimics real user behavior—questions, comparisons, location‑based, product reviews, and more—by combining words from a large English corpus (via NLTK). Run it interactively: press **Enter** for a new query, `q` to quit.

## Features

- **Part‑of‑speech aware** – uses nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs to build grammatically correct phrases.
- **10+ query patterns** – questions (who/what/how/why/where/when/which), comparisons, “how‑to”, “where to buy”, product reviews, location‑based, and more.
- **Interactive** – generate one query per keypress.
- **Large vocabulary** – built from NLTK’s word corpus (tens of thousands of words, filtered for stopwords and proper names).
- **Portable** – works with Python 3.8+ and NLTK.

## Requirements

- Python 3.8 or newer
- NLTK (`pip install nltk`)

## Installation

1. **Clone the repository**  
   ```bash
   git clone git@github.com:poppasilky/Query-Generator.git
   cd Query-Generator

2. Create and activate a virtual environment (recommended)

   python3 -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate   # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install NLTK

   pip install nltk

4. Run the script – NLTK data will be downloaded automatically on first run.

   python query_gen.py

Usage

Once the script starts, you’ll see:

Random Search Query Generator
Press Enter to generate a new query, or 'q' to quit.

• Press Enter – a new random query is printed, along with a counter.
• Type q and press Enter – exit the program.

Customization

• Add more patterns – edit the patterns list inside generate_query().
• Change word lists – modify the POS‑tagged sets (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs).
• Increase word pool – increase the slice size in all_words[:50000] to e.g. all_words[:100000] (will slow initial tagging but gives more variety).

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

• NLTK – for the natural language toolkit and corpora.
• MIT wordlist (indirectly) – part of the NLTK corpus.

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Happy generating!