re-data

This project is the ongoing effort of providing an simple JSON API interface for conferences and under heavy development.

Example data includes re:publica, 30C3, 31C3. Take a look at the scrapers directory.

Documentation

Documentation on the API can be found here

Contributing

The infrastructure is still very rough as this is a side project of several people. If you are interested in helping out, send pull requests or join the mailing list.

Examples

• Several apps for Android and iOS for the re:publica 2014
• An app for AltConf based on one of the re-publica apps.
• re:publica - rp15
• Congress – 31C3 for the 31st Chaos Communication Congress
• More…

Set it up locally

• you need a CouchDB instance (use for example a docker container to set on up easily)
  • docker run -d -p 5984:5984 fedora/couchdb
  • curl -X PUT http://localhost:5984/_config/admins/user -d '"secret"' (creates user user with password secret)
• copy config.js.dist to config.js and fill in the credentials for the CouchDB instance (see curl step above)
• copy scraper/config/scrapers.js.example to scraper/config/scrapers.js (default config is fine for a first run)
• fetch dependencies via npm (needs to be executed in scraper subdirectory):
  • npm install
• run the resetDB command inside the scraper subdirectory:
  • NODE_PATH=node_modules node scraper.js resetDB (NODE_PATH just specifies not globally install locations - was created by the npm install step)
• run the import command inside the scraper subdirectory:
  • NODE_PATH=node_modules node scraper.js import