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Project

Goals

Design a bot to scrape a Legistar calendar and notify interested parties of changes. For example, if a new agenda is posted we could tweet about it. Or we could summarize daily changes into a blog.

Technical requirements

Stay within the free-tier of a cloud-service provider.

Current status

This is implemented on Google's App Engine in the go language.

Admin pages

• /admin/config - Modify app settings
• /admin/loadCalendar - Scrape calendar data and trigger updates
• /admin/testQuery - Print calendar entries for the current month

Processes

This assumes you have a functional go workspace set up.

Deploy to dev

Push to trunk.

Deploy to prod

Push a tag to trunk.

Adding new dependencies

go get $DEPENDENCY
# update & test application
godep save ./...
git add vendor/*** Godeps/***
git commit -m "Add $DEPENDENCY"
# add & commit application changes

Updating dependencies

godep restore # ??? https://github.com/tools/godep/issues/453
go get -u all
godep update ...
# test applicaiton
git add vendor/*** Godeps/***
git commit -m "Updating dependencies."