A data scraping part to the app

[boydjohnson]

It was mentioned at the NDIA Hackday that people were thinking about having a way to get data into the system without entering the data into a form. I have thought about the basics of how that could happen. We could use Scrapy (we would have to use Python 2.7) which has scheduling to collect data on events from the public library or other sites. This would be stored in a database table for unconfirmed events. The way it would be entered into the regular event database table would be if it is selected by a person who looks at it and confirms it. This would make it easier on the people who are entering events so 100 or 200 or 1000 events a month don't have to be entered into the database manually.