postcodes-data-importer

Builds a local google datastore of postcode data from OS Open Names, or imports the data to google cloud datastore, and indexes location fields to the Search API.

Building a local datastore and index to dev Search API

Using default settings in docker-compose.yml

docker-compose run importer

Importing to google cloud and alternative Search API

docker build -t postcodesimporter .

docker run \
  -e GCLOUD_PROJECT_ID=[project-id] \
  -e GCLOUD_KEY=[key] \
  -e SEARCH_API=[search-api-url] \
  -e SEARCH_API_TOKEN=[token] \
  postcodesimporter [optional-command]

Optional commands

npm run import to perform datastore import only (SEARCH_API variables not required)

npm run index to perform search indexing only (GCLOUD variables still required)