econandrew / dc_mayor_schedule

archive the DC mayor's public schedule; tabularize it; give archive web interface

DC Mayor Schedule

The DC Mayor has a public schedule available online here:

http://mayor.dc.gov/daily-schedule

Unfortunately there is no archive of said schedule. You can only see the current day - at least as of 2013-08-21.

So this is a system, to be run as a cron job, to archive the DC mayor's schedule and make it available in a tabular format.

• The 'data' folder contains the archived schedule in UTF-8 CSV format.
• The 'html' folder contains archived raw HTML from the mayor's site, from which the above is culled.
• The 'code' folder contains the code that does this stuff.

To install:

• make sure you have Python and lxml installed
• pull your fork of the repo
• 'crontab -e'; '14 * * * * full_path' runs 'full_path' on the 14th minute of every hour

Shouts to Code for DC! This is an award-winning project!

There is a beautiful web interface for browsing the archive here courtesy of @shiftyp!