CFP-Scraper

This is web scraper that powers cfpcalendar.com.

Data is collected from various sources and written to Airtable.

Running it for yourself

Things you'll need:

1. Airtable account
2. Twitter account
3. Python 3 + virtualenv

Pre-reqs

Airtable

1. Once you've created an Airtable account, use this link to copy the template Base to your own workspace.

2. From https://airtable.com/account generate your API key and make a note of this. This will be your AIRTABLE_API_KEY.

3. Go to https://airtable.com/api and select your base (the one to which you copied the source one in step 1 above). The URL you go to will look like https://airtable.com/appXXXXXXYYYYY/api/docs - make a note of the appXXXXXXYYYYY. This will be your AIRTABLE_BASE_KEY

Twitter

Create yourself API keys from https://developer.twitter.com/en/apps.

Set up Python virtualenv

The easiest way to run this is in isolation, using virtualenv.

1. Clone the git repo

    git clone git@github.com:coderanger/cfp-scraper.git
   

2. Create virtualenv

    cd cfp-scraper
    virtualenv --python=python3 .
    source ./bin/activate.fish
   

   (Use the activate script appropriate for your shell)

3. Install required modules

    pip install -r requirements.txt
   

Run cfp-scraper

• Activate the virtualenv

    source ./bin/activate.fish
  

  (Use the activate script appropriate for your shell)

• Based on the credentials obtained above, run:

    export TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=xxxxxx
    export TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=xxxxxx
    export TWITTER_ACCESS_KEY=xxxxxx
    export TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET=xxxxxx
  
    export AIRTABLE_API_KEY=xxxxxx
    export AIRTABLE_BASE_KEY=xxxxxx
  

• Launch:

    python main.py