Closed qasim closed 8 years ago
@qasim I'm down to work on this one.
It's yours!
Invite me to cobalt? :V
Just had a chance to take a look at the actual site. All hours
, Collection strengths
and How to access
are optional fields that may not exist. All hours
is actually a link to a calendar, should we just provide the link?
@qasim Do we have a public API key without rate-limiting for GET buildings/search/?q={{address}}&key={{public_key}}
?
Libraries have 2 links. e.g. "Health Science Information Consortium of Toronto"
/content/health-science-information-consortium-toronto
/library-info/HSICT
And don't necessarily have a Description
, and sometimes would contain a Teaser text
.
We have no way of requesting API for scrapers yet. It's on the roadmap though.
On average is there enough information? If not, we may just call it here and not scrape libraries.
As for hours, I saw that they had the link to the calendar. If we do continue to scrape, we could do 1 week of the calendar and have similar hours structure as the Food scraper does
On average, there's usually enough information.
I will take your advice on the calendar thing. It doesn't look like too much work. ¯(ツ)/¯
https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/visit
Most libraries at UofT aren't whole buildings, here's a list of libraries that /are/ buildings but also inside other buildings.
Library names, location (we'd have to map these to building IDs to minimize duplicate information), operating hours, photo, website URL, description, "collection strengths", and "how to access".