The bulk of Pupa scrapers for Canada are written in Python.

The ca scraper in the scrapers-ca repository depends on the ca scraper in this repository.

The ca_qc_montreal scraper in this repository is intended for mamairie.ca. Represent uses the ca_qc_montreal scraper in the scrapers-ca repository, which is dedicated to elected officials' contact information.

Install Git, Ruby 2.x and MongoDB. We recommend rbenv to manage your Rubies.

Install the Bundler gem:

gem install bundler

Get the code:

git clone https://github.com/opennorth/scrapers-ca-ruby.git
cd scrapers-ca-ruby

Install gem dependencies:

bundle

Run a scraper with, for example:

ruby ca_qc_montreal/scraper.rb

foreman start

• GET /memberships?in_network_of=ocd-organization/country:ca/csd:2466023/council
• GET /memberships?organization_id=ocd-organization/country:ca/csd:2466023/council
• GET /memberships?person_id=3e305d54-75b4-431b-adb2-eb6b9e546013
• GET /memberships?id=1e305d54-75b4-431b-adb2-eb6b9e546013
• GET /organizations?in_network_of=ocd-organization/country:ca/csd:2466023/council
• GET /organizations?id=2e305d54-75b4-431b-adb2-eb6b9e546013
• GET /people?member_of=ocd-organization/country:ca/csd:2466023/council
• GET /people?id=3e305d54-75b4-431b-adb2-eb6b9e546013
• GET /posts?organization_id=ocd-organization/country:ca/csd:2466023/council
• GET /posts?id=4e305d54-75b4-431b-adb2-eb6b9e546013
• GET /ocd-organization/country:ca/csd:2466023/council

heroku apps:create
heroku addons:add flydata
heroku addons:add memcachier
heroku addons:add mongolab
heroku addons:add rediscloud
heroku addons:add scheduler

Schedule jobs to run daily, for example:

ruby ca/scraper.rb --pipelined -q -a scrape -a import -a update
ruby ca_qc_montreal/scraper.rb --pipelined -q -t organizations -t posts -t people

This repository is on GitHub: http://github.com/opennorth/scrapers-ca-ruby, where your contributions, forks, bug reports, feature requests, and feedback are greatly welcomed.

Copyright (c) 2013 Open North Inc., released under the MIT license