politico-civic-election-loader 1.0a7.dev1

Ingest election metadata and results from outside sources, the POLITICO way.

politico-civic-election-loader

Ingest election metadata and results from outside sources, the POLITICO way.

Quickstart

1. Install the app.

$ pip install politico-civic-election-loader

2. Add the app to your Django project settings.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    'rest_framework',
    'election_loader',
]

3. Migrate the database.

$ python manage.py migrate entity

Developing

Running a development server

Move into the example directory, install dependencies and run the development server with pipenv.

$ cd example
$ pipenv install
$ pipenv run python manage.py runserver

Setting up a PostgreSQL database

1. Run the make command to setup a fresh database.

$ make database

2. Add a connection URL to example/.env.

DATABASE_URL="postgres://localhost:5432/electionloader"

3. Run migrations from the example app.

$ cd example
$ pipenv run python manage.py migrate

Copyright

© 2019–present POLITICO, LLC