This repository will house our property records application. More to come!
This project uses Scrapy to download updates from each site. If you're still new to Scrapy, reviewing the Architecture Overview provides a helpful look at how Scrapy operates.
This application has been tested as it was developed. Keep tabs on tests here: https://travis-ci.org/ludstuen90/ohio
A complete list of instructions is inside the Wiki
For each county, data lives in a separate place. At this time, the process to download some of the data initial data (i.e. parcel IDs for each county) lives in a different place.
Below are instructions to download the initial data for each county:
Access this page: http://www.co.warren.oh.us/property_search/search.aspx?searchType=Advanced
Search for properties built after year 1.
When the results appear, download the file as a CSV file, and save it in this project's folder: propertyrecords/parcel_data.csv (If existing file, overwrite)
Then, run python manage.py warren
and the CSV file will load automatically.