README.md

school-closure

A PHP script to extract / scrape data on school snow closures in a town. Built on hQuery.

Also, a badge-svg PHP script & a school-closure Javascript.

• Example data: index.json

Install .. test

composer install && composer npm-install
composer copy-env
composer build
composer test
composer serve
  # And browse to ...
  # http://localhost:8000/badge-svg/?s=Middleton%20Primary
  # http://localhost:8000/badge-svg/?abbr=MP

Robot

Bot

I identify myself as the following User-Agent (and I sleep between requests):

SchoolClosure/1.0-beta +https://github.com/nfreear/school-closure#bot

Cron

Example crontab (assumes the server is configured for your local time):

# crontab -l
# min hr  dom mon day command
*/15  6-9 *   *   *   /path/to/school-closure/bin/cron >/dev/null 2>&1

Legal

All data remains the property of the web-site publisher, and the web-site remains as the definitive/ master copy of the data. Use at your own risk. I accept no liability for losses.

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code: © Nick Freear. License: MIT.