compass-interface-core 0.1.6

The unofficial API to the TSA Compass membership database

Compass Interface - Core

The Compass Interface project aims to provide a unified and well-documented API to the Scouts' national membership system, Compass.

Notice

This is not an official API to Compass and as such should be used in a way that doesn't cause a high request load on the Compass system.

Please also remember your personal data handling obligations (under both GDPR and Scouting policies) whilst using this module.

Where to get it

The source code for the project is hosted on GitHub at the-scouts/compass-interface-core

Installers for the latest release are availibe on Conda and at the Python Package Index (PyPI).

# conda
conda install compass-interface-core

# or PyPI
pip install compass-interface-core

Dependencies

• requests - for intuitive HTTP requests
• certifi - for SSL/TLS certificate management
• lxml - for parsing HTML documents
• python-dateutil - for parsing date strings
• pandas - for data management and transformation

License

Compass Interface - Core is naturally open source and is licensed under the MIT license.

Core Module

This sub-project hosts the extraction functionaility of Compass Interface, and is itself a standalone module for querying Compass.

The main project is found at the-scouts/compass-interface.

Example Usage

TBC