nextrequester

A hacky bit of codes to download responsive files from the atrociously designed NextRequest public records request websites.

Currently hard-coded for Los Angeles, but you should be able to just change the value of BASE_URL to whatever you want.

Requirements

• Linux or OSX
• Python 3.7 or higher
• Pip
• whatever's in the requirements.txt file

Installation

1. Clone the repo:

   git clone git@github.com:lindseybaron/nextrequester.git

2. Install requirements:

   cd nextrequester
   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Set config values in ./config.yaml
4. Copy ./secret_example.yaml and add your login credentials:

   cp secret_example.yaml secret.yaml

Use

Single Request

To download all the files for a single records request, use the request ID from the url.

python src/nr.py req [request-id]

All Files From 'Documents'

To download all the files from https://lacity.nextrequest.com/documents:

python src/nr.py alldocs