NYC Tree Data Fetcher

General Description

A Flask/ Python based app to fetch, process, and send processed data to whichever client wants/ has access to it. Said data is based off of the 2015 NYC tree census data.

Additional Docs

• DevOps

Requirements

General requirements are:

• the app must use Python
• the app must request open source data
• the app must be able to cache the end result.

Available Routes

• Count of trees per borough
• Count of species of trees

Cloning Instructions

You'll need to have at least Python 3.8.1 installed. PyEnv is also recommended in order to manage Python versions as well as the PyEnv-virtualenv plugin.

Clone the repo with your favorite SCM or manually download it

  git clone https://github.com/wilsonj806/nyc-tree-data-fetcher.git

Local Development

The .env file

A .env is required for the project and will require at least two or all three of the below:

  IS_DOCKER=true
  FLASK_ENV=development
  APP_TOKEN=secret

The APP_TOKEN key isn't added here if you're using Docker Compose. If you are using Docker Compose, follow the Docker docs instructions on adding secrets to your docker-compose.yml file and add an app_token.txt file with the token.

With Docker

This app will be Dockerized from the start. It includes a DockerFile and a docker-compose.yml file for convenience and so you don't have to fight Python/ pyenv/ etc when you try to set up your local dev environment.

Without Docker

Once you clone the repo you'll need to change directory into the project directory and run the below to setup the virtual environment:

  python -m venv venv

Then activate the virtual envrionment:

. venv/bin/activate

Then install packages

  venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt

To test it, run flask with the below:

  flask run