Socrata Creator

Create Socrata datasets via API. Complementary to socrata-pusher.

Note: this functionality is being incorporated into sodapy

This repo only serves as a demonstration/proof of concept

Installation

pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

Rename .env.sample to .env and fill in the values for your Socrata instance. At the moment this project just creates a sample dataset, defined in main.py using columns defined in sample_fields.json.

Roadmap

A library for creating datasets in Socrata that can be paired with a database reader to facilitate replication from database to Socrata

Field Types

• text
• number
• calendar_date
• money
• location
• multipolygon