infest

Provides an API for the Baltimore City Recent Food Establishment Closures page here

The application scrapes data from the page periodically and exposes that information in a queryable REST api.

As of early 2017, this particular data is not exposed on the Open Baltimore Portal, and having this data easily accessible will enable a wider variety of civic hacking the future. Examples could include notification systems, search engines/food review integrations, and geographic visualizations

using

The app is deployed here

The valid url params are as follows:

• per_page - the number of results returned per page - default is 20
• page - the page offset - default is 1
• sort - accepts lowercase param names followed by either ".asc" or ".desc" (e.g. "closuredate.desc")
• name - filters for an exact match on the name field
• startDate - shows all records for which closuredate is after the given date. Format is m/d/yyyy
• endDate - shows all records for which closuredate is before the given date. Format is m/d/yyy
• reason - does a full text search in the reason field for the given item

running

The below environment variables must be set for the app to run. Defaults are given as well.

• CLOSURES_URL - the url of the health department page with the restaurant closures
• CLOSURES_SCHEDULE - a schedule compatible with the robfig/cron library. Default is every minute.
• PORT - the port that the application will run on
• GO_ENV - Either "development" or "production" depending on the environment. Default is development if unset.

Built With

• go