I have installed all necessary extensions / virtualenv and can run the .py files, however I don’t really understand the structure of these files and where to ‘start’. If I run some of the individual .py files, I don’t really get any of the output I was expecting. I also see a Docker file which perhaps is a place to start, but I don’t know how to run it.
The idea of the code is that it should scrape a few specific XML files from a few govt. websites and put that information in a database.
I’m doing this using Terminal on Mac OSX.
Very keen to get your thoughts / feedback on how I should approach this.
So all in all - this project in its current state is not really targeted to be used by somebody else but the author theirselves.
As already mentioned, I would suggest to contact the author on their issue tracker and talk to them whether they would be open to create some starter guide and generalize their setup procedure.
P.S.: The project has not been updated in 5 years. This means there is a low chance that the author wants to put more work in it, and this also means the packages are outdated, and I would not recommend to run it anymore - there will be some security issues for sure.
Many thanks for your swift reply! I have reached out to the authors, but indeed it seems unlikely that they will put time in it given the amount of time that has passed since the project was first uploaded.