raghavio / voter-lookup

Application to lookup voterid to find AC and booth

Voter Lookup

Voter Lookup is an application that finds the state, assembly constituency and polling booth, given an voter id.

This works by maintaining the all the voterids in a sqlite database table.

USAGE

To start development server:

$ python webapp.py

The program expects a SQLite database with name voter.db in the current directory. A different database file can be specified using the environment variable VOTER_LOOKUP_DATABSE.

$ VOTER_LOOKUP_DATABSE=a.db python webapp.py

Running in production:

$ gunicorn webapp:application -b 127.0.0.1:8080

Running using Docker

Build the docker image:

$ docker build anandology/voter-lookup:devel .

Run the application:

$ docker run -p 8080:80 -v /opt/voter-lookup/voter.db:/voter.db anandology/voter-lookup:devel

This assumes the voterids database is available at /opt/voter-lookup/voter.db.

Use option --restart=always if you want docker to auto-restart your application and auto start it on boot.

API

$ curl 'http://voter-lookup/search?voterid=ABC1234567'
[
 {
  "voterid": "ABC1234567",
  "state": "DL",
  "ac": 56
  "pb": 130,
 }
]

Optionally, two-letter state code can be specified to limit the search to one particular state.

$ curl 'http://voter-lookup/search?voterid=ABC1234567&state=DL'
[
 {
  "voterid": "ABC1234567",
  "state": "DL",
  "ac": 56
  "pb": 130,
 }
]

Please note that the voter-lookup in the URL should be replaced with the hostname.