ouseful-fsa-datasupply 0.2.0

A simple tool for bulk downloading of etsablishment details and ratings data from food.gov.uk

food_gov_uk

Tools for grabbing data from food.gov.uk

pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/ouseful-datasupply/food_gov_uk.git

Command Line Interface

The CLI will scrape the UK Food Standards Agency ratings data XML files and construct a simple SQLite database from them containing two tables:

• fsa_ratings_metadata: containing the name and publication date of each scraped file
• USER-DEFINED (default: ratingstable) containing the ratings data from the XML files.

The created database can then be used with tools such as datasette.

Usage: fsa_data [OPTIONS] COMMAND

Commands:
  collect              Collect data from FSA website

Options:
  --dbname TEXT        SQLite database name (default: fsa_ratings_all.db)
  --ratingstable TEXT  FSA Ratings table name (default: ratingstable)
  --area TEXT          Specfiy an area to download data for
  --authority TEXT     Specfiy a local authority to download data for
  --help               Show this message and exit.