README.md

parking-decks-muenster

History of parking deck data

Steps for reading the parkleitsystem data from here and writing the data into a .csv file:

• Install dependencies, i.e. the python package BeautifulSoup:

  pip3 install bs4
  

• Call the read_parkleitsystem_data script:

  python3 read_parkleitsystem_data.py
  

Steps for commiting the .csv file into the "data" folder on GitHub:

• Generate a "personal access token" on GitHub:
  Go to your GitHub account "Settings", then "Developer Settings", "Personal access tokens" and "Generate new token".
• Generate a file "config.py" (like config.dist.py) and copy your personal access token into the file.
  Note: Treat your personal access token like a password and NEVER check in your config.py.
• Switch the remote URL of your cloned parking-decks-muenster repository to HTTPS (if cloned with SSH):
  command is git remote set-url; see this explanation)
• Call the auto_commit script:

  python3 auto_commit.py
  

citizen-center-muenster

History of waiting time data in the citizen center of Muenster

Steps for reading the waiting time data from here and writing the data into a .csv file:

• Install dependencies as described above, if not already done.
• Call the read_waiting_time_data script:

  python3 read_waiting_time_data.py
  

Steps for commiting the .csv file into the "data_citizen_center" folder on GitHub:

• Generate a "personal access token" on GitHub as described above, if not already done.
• Generate a file "config.py" as described above, if not already done.
• Switch the remote URL to HTTPS, if not already done.
• Call the auto_commit script:

  python3 auto_commit.py