Mapping Salt Lake County health inspections.

You need a Postgres database to run the project.

Copy the src/main/resources/application-local.example.yml file to src/main/resources/application.yml and set up your database. If you want to run the Selenium indexers, set dohmap.selenium.sessions to be over 0, set a login, and head to /admin to test the scrapers.

This projects ingests data from Salt Lake County's health inspection database by means of scraping most of the data available on the site through concurrent Selenium browser sessions.

The scrapers are kicked off using a cronjob, which, by default, starts every Monday through Thursday at 21:00 local system time for a quick (lite) run. The lite run does not check for new violations on inspections already in the database.

A full run (which acts as if there is no data, so it checks all inspections) happens at Friday at 21:00, in-case the health department does change older inspections (this is currently unknown, it would only add violations and not remove existing ones.)

For an idea on timings between the two different runs, a single page for a lite run takes a little over 6 minutes, whereas a full run will take about 14 minutes. A lite run, on my server, takes about 4 hours to complete. A full run takes 10 hours, dividing the pages between 4 browsers.

These can be overridden using the dohmap.jobs.full-run and dohmap.jobs.lite-run properties.

Selenium was used because there is no API and their frontend/backend seems to heavily sync state using JS. Seriously, to view an inspection page calls some JS function that only increments an ID based on the index of the row.

The webpages are rendered server-side using Thymeleaf. Bootstrap is used as the front-end framework, Leaflet to display the maps, and jQuery 'cause it's old school ;) and I don't need much else.

Within the database, IDs are stored as uuidv7, which also act as a created_on timestamp for all entities. The com.github.f4b6a3:uuid-creator library is used for this. If you want to convert uuidv7 IDs to SQL timestamps (such as timestamp with time zone) within Postgres, install the pg-uuidv7 extension.

Unfortunately, since the site they use seems pretty old (check it out! they use XP-themed tables and such), they do not expose any IDs of any kind.

Restaurant distinctiveness is currently determined if the name, address, city, state, ZIP, phone, and establishment type match, if they don't, a new restaurant is created. Same with all inspection and violation fields.

Running the Selenium browsers shouldn't™ recreate data, but there are probably bugs. If a restaurant gets a new phone number, or changes their name, there'll be a new restaurant as there don't seem to be any exposed unique identifiers.

• Account sign-up
• Alerts if establishments you select match criteria (critical violations on new inspection)
  • Discord alert destination
• Merge establishments