This is a scraper that runs on Morph. To get started see the documentation

Environment Variables

The code expects (up to) two envirvonment variables to be set to run properly:

MORPH_DAYS How far back to look for new planning applications
MORPH_POSTCODE_GEOCODE_COUNT How many new postcodes it should attempt to geocode each time the scraper runs. This is used to populate the neighbourhood_latitude and neighbourhood_longitude columns in the database, which provide a rough location of the planning application. You should aim to make the number higher than the number of new applications each day, but not too high so you aren't hammering the postcodes.io API. A few hundred seems a sensible option.

Tools

To geocode the planning application locations we need to find the postcode. rake find_postcodes db=name-of-your-planning-apps-database | sort | uniq