kqed / election-2016-loader

Election 2016 Loader

##About A loader that collects election results from AP API and loads them into MySQL. Inspiration for some of this repo was taken from NPR's Elex Loader.

##Requirements

• MySQL
• jq

##Configuration Set the following environment variables:

$ export AP_API_KEY='YOUR_AP_API_KEY'
$ export ELECTIONS_DB_HOST='YOUR_MYSQL_HOST'
$ export ELECTIONS_DB_USER='YOUR_MYSQL_USERNAME'
$ export ELECTIONS_DB_PASS='YOUR_MYSQL_PASSWORD'
$ export ELECTIONS_DB_PORT='YOUR_MYSQL_PORT'
$ export MYSQL_COMMAND='mysql'

Note: This loader is programmed to use a database named 'election2016'.

##Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/KQED/election-2016-loader.git
$ cd election-2016-loader

##Running the Service Locally

$ mysql.server start
$ source init.sh
$ source results.sh

##Ebextensions The ebextensions folder has two config files which run when deployed to an AWS Elastic Beanstalk instance

• createdb.config creates the database election2016 if it doesn't exist and drops and creates the APresults table, if it exists. It then indexes the AP data into the APresults table
• mysqlinstall.config installs mysql and and jq in the Linux server

election-2016-loader's Issues

Swap out AP URL to use proper data instead of 2012