metadrive 1.1.7

Integration of controllers to drive tools.

# Metadrive

## Usage

Basic Installation: ` pip install -U -i https://metaformat:[e-mail] metadrive `

Driver structure: ` . ├── driver_name │ ├── __init__.py # login(), and an items generator function with optional name. │ └── api.py # classes, that define methods available to crawled items. ├── README.md └── setup.py `

1. Publish drivers on PyPI.

2. Reference them on - wikis on GitHub (example: [https://github.com/mindey/-/wiki/topic#halfbakery](https://github.com/mindey/-/wiki/topic#halfbakery).

3. Use, like harvest https://github.com/mindey/-/wiki/topic#halfbakery.

More advanced usage will be covered in the future.

## About

The package that introduces simple generic interfaces to the objects within web APIs, allowing for generation (searching), and management of items on the web systems.

The drivers listed in drivers.py shall define controllers services and machines, to serialize data in [MFT-1](https://book.mindey.com/metaformat/0002-data-object-format/0002-data-object-format.html), making them convenient to automatically operate with [metaform](https://pypi.org/project/metaform/)). This list of drivers is to be provided in a distributed fashion, i.e., with GunDB.

When writing drivers, optionally define login() function, and some generator function harvest(limit=limit) function in __init__.py. The generator function needs to return elements, where - key is the URL of the items.

Installation may require ncurses.

$ harvest <resource> The first command allows to crawl custom source.

$ provide The second command serves the API to the APIs and data.

$ console Starts console application with get(), list(), update() methods to manage index of all available controllers ( drivers ), and get data.

$ consume Starts a GUI-based application to manage index of all available controllers ( drivers ), and interact with data objects visually.

# TODO

## Web information services

Industrial and Medical Equipment Metal printers ([https://www.aniwaa.com/best-of/3d-printers/best-metal-3d-printer/#The_best_metal_3D_printers_in_2018](https://www.aniwaa.com/best-of/3d-printers/best-metal-3d-printer/#The_best_metal_3D_printers_in_2018)), CNC Machines ( [https://github.com/Nikolay-Kha/PyCNC#readme](https://github.com/Nikolay-Kha/PyCNC#readme), [https://mmi-direct.com/machines/search/?make_id=&page=brand](https://mmi-direct.com/machines/search/?make_id=&page=brand)).

Products Taobao, 天猫, Alibaba, Amazon, EBay,…

Business data  Flights ( flightradar24.com ), Skyscanner ( skyscanner.com ), Weather ( windy.com ), Human ( biodigital.com ), Ships ( marinetraffic.com ), Deaths ( https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/vitalstatsonline.htm ), Companies ( opencorporates.com, etc.), Oil Miners ( http://aleph.openoil.net/ ),…

Common services Gmail API ( get all your mails ), LinkedIn, Google Plus, Twitter, Weibo, Telegram, WeChat, Kik, KakoTalk, Line, WhatsApp, Quora, Kr36, MeetUp, 知乎, Huodongxing, YouTube, YouKu, Vimeo,…

## Private PyPI repository of drivers ## Private organization ‘-’ repository