/DLD_Data_Auto-update

a code for using Dubai Land Department (DLD) and automatically update it

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

code for automatically editing and updating the dataset that DLD provides

Requirements

To install requirements, run the command below in your terminal

pip install -r requirements.txt

How to Use

To use the code below without any security issues run simply these instructions:

  1. To work with API provided by DLD you must have Security and access keys. include your keys in environmental variables using the following commands
    export DUBAI_KEY=<YOUR KEY>
    export DUBAI_SEC=<YOUR SECURITY>
  1. Run the command below in the current working directory
    export PYTHONPATH=${PWD}

  1. Download your base dataset from this LINK and place it in Data folder in ./src
      note: do not rename the dataset file

  2. Datasets provided by DLD have some structural issues. To solve them run the code provided in the csv_edit folder by using the below command

    python ./src/csv_edit/main.py
  1. run the API call code for receiving the newest data like below:
    python ./src/API-call/main.py
  1. After running any of the part 4 or 5 commands you will get a massage to select the dataset you want to do processes on it. Select it using a valid entry

the final file will be replaced in your Data folder