README.md

councilmatic-stack

The goal of this project is to get the imago project, scraper-us-municipal project, and councilmatic-starter-template all working together.

Requirements

1. Install docker an docker-compose if you do not have them installed
2. Clone this project into the the folder scrapers in this project: https://github.com/datamade/scrapers-us-municipal.

Initializing

1. Run docker-compose up to start the database and scrapers containers. Keep this terminal window running.
2. Run the initial migration docker-compose exec scrapers pupa dbinit us

Running the scrapers

1. Ensure the containers are running. If they are still running from the Initializing step above continue to step 2. Otherwise start the containers: docker-compose up.
2. docker-compose exec scrapers /bin/bash (ssh's into the scrapers project)
3. pupa update sacramento (runs the update script)

Resources:

Docker stuff: https://docs.docker.com/compose/django/#create-a-django-project

Open civic data api: https://github.com/opencivicdata/imago

Scrapers US Municipal: opencivicdata/scrapers-us-municipal#243

Councilmatic: https://github.com/datamade/councilmatic-starter-template,