This repository contains the configuration for CrONCERT. CrONCERT is a website that helps you find concerts worldwide. The data is gathered with goskyr, a configurable
scraper written in go. Once a week goskyr runs through a Github action using croncert-config.yml as configuration file.
Despite the fact that there are other websites that offer an overview about concerts and events (such as https://www.songkick.com/, https://www.jambase.com/, etc.) I found none that are complete and/or include smaller event locations that might only be known to locals. That's why I came up with this idea.
The idea of making this repository public is to enable others to contribute to the configuration file and hence expand the data available on https://croncert.ch. I might have a good knowledge about concert locations in my home town but there are other poeple (you?) that know better about other towns. Everyone that has a basic understanding of programming and html/css should be able to extend the configuration file in order for the scraper to include more concert locations.
If you know a concert venue that you'd like to add to CrONCERT just fork the repository, add a new config snippet and open a pull request to merge the newly added snippet into the main branch. Have a look at the README of goskyr to make yourself familiar with the configuration syntax. Looking at the existing configurations might also give you some hints about how to write your own.
It is important that at least the fields title, url, city, location, type, sourceUrl and date are present. Optionally, a comment field can be configured (currently not shown on https://croncert.ch). If the mandatory fields are not present or additional new fields are configured then the scraper won't be able to send the data to the api that feeds the website. Also note, that type should be a static field with 'concert' as value and city should be a static field with the city name in English.
While writing a new config snippet you can continuously test it by running goskyr -single <name> -config croncert-config.yml -stdout (goskyr must be installed locally). This prints the items in json format to stdout instead of trying to write them to the croncert api. The latter wouldn't work anyways because you'd need to set the correct credentials as environment variables. Also it might be helpful to start with the config snippet provided by the config-template.yml.
There are still a few limititions that will be solved in the future and include the following but might not be limited to: