dankeemahill / django-olympiad

An engine for scraping, storing and aggregating Olympic medal counts.

django-olympiad

A lightweight toolkit for scraping, storing and aggregating Olympic medal counts.

Why?

Medal counts are the bane of the news developer's existence. Don't fret. Django-olympiad provides a scraper, an aggregator and an API framework. Be the hero for your infographics staff!

What's included

• A scraper for the IOC Web site which grabs Countries, Athletes, OlympicGames, Sports and Events.
• An aggregator which builds medal counts by Country and Athlete, even over multiple Olympics.
• A fully RESTful API built on TastyPie which accepts URL queries.

RoadMap

• Tests
• More tests

Getting started

• Add django-olympiad to your requirements file.
• Add django-olympiad to your settings file under installed apps.
• Run your initial migrations.
• Run the scraper.
• Run the aggregator.
• Set up the API in your urls.py.
• Profit!