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A simple django management command to scrape the status of Madison parking garages and save to a database model. It's the basis for the parking garage information at the bottom of this page.
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This has been updated here to reflect the coming changes to the Fusion Tables API.
In my quest to learn how to use python within the django framework, the most difficult thing was the development environment, and getting to the point where I could play learn, practice and experiment. Here are some steps that I took to get to that point.
I’ll add to this as I can, but mostly I’m using it as a handy resource that I can access while continuing to learn.
Cribbed from my notes and this blog post.
Hacked-together attempt at a Python scraper of Madison, Wis. beach status using Beautiful Soup and Requests. It pulls similar data from the Madison and Dane County Public Health website.
This could be made better in a number of ways. Two that come to mind:
- Display lake that the beach is on
- if else for when beach is monitored by another agency and no status is available
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Save for a few legacy projects that still use Fusion Tables I don't actively use this script anymore. This update hopefully solves the OAuth issue that cropped up once Google depcricated the Client Login method used by the prior version.
As always, your mileage may vary, and I welcome someone -- Google or otherwise -- to offer a long-term maintained solution.
The following is largely cribbed from a Google example here. I try to explain some of the API settings that must be enabled in the Developer's Console and elsewhere