Socrata

An application to sync weather data with Socrata.

Approach

• fetch the latest record from Socrata
• check for newer records in the DB
• send the new records to socrata
• if the new record sampled_at date is earlier than the latest record in socrata, update the record in socrata
  • find the old record with the row id
  • use the row id to update the record in socrata

TODO:

• check the updated_at date to determine if the record has been updated

Setup

export SOCRATA_APP_TOKEN=your_socrata_app_token
export SOCRATA_API_KEY=your_socrata_api_key
export SOCRATA_DOMAIN=your_socrata_domain
export SOCRATA_DATASET_ID=your_socrata_dataset_id
export DB_URL=your_ecto_db_url_for the weather data

Usage

mix run --no-halt

Documentation can be generated with ExDoc and published on HexDocs. Once published, the docs can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/socrata.