ohio

This repository will house our property records application. More to come!

Scrapy

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.

Test Driven Development

This application has been tested as it was developed. Keep tabs on tests here: https://travis-ci.org/ludstuen90/ohio

Installing a new instance of this application.

• Scraping in this application depends on Twisted, which has a few requirements to install before-hand.
• Users will need to set up a PostgreSQL database instance, and provide the database parameters to the application via environment variables.

A complete list of instructions is inside the Wiki

Downloading Initial Data

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:

Warren 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.