Merge pull request #10 from cruznunez/spider-cinoh_Civil_Service

🏗 Build Spider: Cincinnati Civil Service Commission

city_scrapers/spiders/cinoh_Civil_Service.py

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+from datetime import datetime
+
+import scrapy
+from city_scrapers_core.constants import COMMISSION
+from city_scrapers_core.items import Meeting
+from city_scrapers_core.spiders import CityScrapersSpider
+from dateutil.parser import parse
+from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
+
+
+class CinohCivilServiceSpider(CityScrapersSpider):
+    name = "cinoh_Civil_Service"
+    agency = "Cincinnati Civil Service Commission"
+    timezone = "America/New_York"
+    committee_id = "A9HCN931D6BA"
+    custom_settings = {
+        "ROBOTSTXT_OBEY": False,
+    }
+
+    # original URL: https://go.boarddocs.com/oh/csc/Board.nsf/vpublic?open
+    # clicking on meetings tab takes you to meetings index and uses API
+    # we scrape API instead via POST request and ignore robots file
+    def start_requests(self):
+        url = "https://go.boarddocs.com/oh/csc/Board.nsf/BD-GetMeetingsList"
+        form_data = {"current_committee_id": self.committee_id}
+        # send the POST request and use parse method when response is returned
+        yield scrapy.FormRequest(url, formdata=form_data, callback=self.parse)
+
+    def parse(self, response):
+        """
+        Parse JSON response.
+        """
+
+        lower_limit = datetime.now() - relativedelta(months=6)
+
+        data = response.json()
+
+        for item in data:
+            numb = item.get("numberdate")
+
+            # skip if no date or meeting is too old
+            if numb is None:
+                continue
+            meeting_date = parse(numb)
+            if meeting_date < lower_limit:
+                continue
+
+            # if date is valid then parse meeting
+            meeting = Meeting(
+                title=item["name"],
+                description="",
+                classification=COMMISSION,
+                start=parse(numb),
+                end=None,
+                all_day=False,
+                time_notes="",
+                location=self._parse_location(item),
+                links=self._parse_links(item),
+                source=self._parse_source(response),
+            )
+
+            meeting["status"] = self._get_status(meeting)
+            meeting["id"] = self._get_id(meeting)
+
+            yield meeting
+
+    def _parse_location(self, item):
+        """Generate location."""
+        return {
+            "name": "Cincinnati Civil Service Commission",
+            "address": "805 Central Ave, Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45202",
+        }
+
+    def _parse_links(self, item):
+        """Generate links."""
+        href = (
+            f"https://go.boarddocs.com/oh/csc/Board.nsf/Download-AgendaDetailed?"
+            f"open&id={item['unique']}&current_committee_id={self.committee_id}"
+        )
+        return [{"title": "Agenda", "href": href}]
+
+    def _parse_source(self, response):
+        """
+        Generate source. Instead of returning API URL
+        we return the more user-friendly web page we can see this data from.
+        """
+        return "https://go.boarddocs.com/oh/csc/Board.nsf/vpublic?open#tab-meetings"