najahpokkiri / IndianPollingStations

Latitude/Longitude and Name data for Indian electoral polling stations (data and scraper included)

Indian Polling Stations

This code scrapes Indian electoral polling stations from Polling Station Locations, Electoral Commission of India.

Data

Data gathered on April 14th - 15th, 2017. There are 905,421 observations.

Data is contained in out.zip (18MB). Inside this ZIP file is an uncompressed CSV file, out.csv (135MB). Note that text strings have been downconverted from Unicode to ASCII where appropriate (using Python unidecode); if you are using data to match with existing Indian datasets, you may need to downconvert their text labels as well.

Example data:

State	District	AC	Latitude	Longitude	PS Number	PS Name	URL
Telangana	Khammam	Aswaraopeta	17.381287	80.709979	30	ABBUGUDEM	Click
Telangana	Khammam	Aswaraopeta	17.276105	81.046777	131	ACHUTHAPURAM	Click
Telangana	Khammam	Aswaraopeta	17.19378325	80.99154315	85	ALLIPALLI	Click
Telangana	Khammam	Aswaraopeta	17.361801	81.195683	157	ANANTHARAM	Click
Telangana	Khammam	Aswaraopeta	17.373627	80.963417	114	ANKAMPALEM	Click
Telangana	Khammam	Aswaraopeta	17.36768	80.775935	67	ANNAPUREDDYPALLI	Click
Telangana	Khammam	Aswaraopeta	17.36768	80.775935	68	ANNAPUREDDYPALLI	Click
Telangana	Khammam	Aswaraopeta	17.36768	80.775935	69	ANNAPUREDDYPALLI	Click
Telangana	Khammam	Aswaraopeta	17.391797	80.961505	115	ARLAPENTA H/o ANKAMPALEM	Click

Instructions to re-scrape data

0. Install required Python pre-requisites (pip install -r requirements.txt)
1. Run psleci.py to scrape State, District, AC triples from the website to prepare the main scraper and store in triples.json
2. Run polling_stations.py to scrape the information
3. Data is now contained in out.csv. Errors, if any, are output to error.txt

Code Style Guide

pylint settings are contained in .pylintrc.

pep8 settings are as follows: pep8 --ignore W191,E101,E111,E501,E128

Contributions?

Please feel free to open a pull request.