Retrieve calls for service from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
This library makes it simple to consume recenct calls for service (CFS) from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department website. There is no official API so this library depends on scraping the CFS page. The page is updated every 10 minutes so please be courteous and do not retrieve the calls more often than you have to.
The library should be included by requiring slmpd-cfs. This exposes the function getCurrentCfs() which returns a promise that resolves to an array of CallForService objects. The CallForService object has the following properties:
dateTime- date and time of the callslmpdId- internal IDlocation- location as an intersection or obfuscated addresstype- category of the call
The CallForService object exposes the function fixLocation which simply changes an address in the form of 1XX Main St. to 150 Main St..
const slmpdCfs = require('slmpd-cfs');
slmpdCfs.getCurrentCfs()
.then(cfs => {
console.log(`count: ${cfs.length}`);
cfs.forEach(call => {
console.log(`${call.location} - ${call.type}`);
});
});