Synchronization

[dbrgn]

Hi

Nice project. How is the data synchronized? Is there some automated job to do synchronize regularly? The list seems to be outdated.

Danilo

[diadzine]

Hello,

Thanks!

The data come from the Space API (http://spaceapi.net/directory). Not all the hackerspaces implement this API. The Coredump hackerspace was not founded when this project started. So we will add it soon.

Nemen

[dbrgn]

Ah, I thought it pulled the data from hackerspaces.org. You should probably mention that on your page. Yeah, I'm involved with coredump, that's why I asked :)

I don't quite understand how to "implement" the spaceapi protocol. Do we just need an endpoint that return JSON? In that case I'll add that to our website soon.

[gcmalloc]

Basically the project is build on two data input

• The hackerspaces.org site which is scrapped to have a list of hackerspaces and the information situated in the right panel
• The space api to complete the information scraped by the first method and have live information such as the opening of the space.

If you want to implement the space api endpoint, you just have to 1) provide a json endpoint that return json compatible with the 2.0 json api (you can find more information on this page : http://hackerspaces.nl/spaceapi/ 2) then register to the list we are using (http://spaceapi.net/directory.json).

Now, concerning the issue, the scraper was only manually launch up to now, I will add a cron job on the server to do that for me. Thanks for reporting :)

[dbrgn]

Nice, I just implemented the API :) http://www.coredump.ch/status.json

[gcmalloc]

Good to know, I manually launched the scraper so coredump is now officially on the site http://hackerspaces.ch/

[dbrgn]

Cool, thanks :)