This repository contains scripts to acquire, clean and process the spending information released by the UK central government.

The scripts have several stages that need to be run in order:

• build_index - will find all related metadata (tagged: spend-transactions) on data.gov.uk
• retrieve will then try to fetch all the files
• extract will attempt to parse CSV/XLS/... and load it into a DB
• combine column names are mapped and values are stored in one central table
• cleanup
• validate
• report creates the report HTML

First clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/okfn/dpkg-uk25k.git

You need to install the dependencies (best in a python virtual environment):

virtualenv pyenv-dpkg-uk25k
pyenv-dpkg-uk25k/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt

The default configuration is in default.ini. If you want to change the configuration, copy it config.ini and edit it there.

Before you can run the scripts you need to prepare a database:

sudo -u postgres createdb uk25k

Now create a postgres user for your unix user name:

sudo -u postgres createuser -D -R -S $USER

And allow access to the database by editing /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/pg_hba.conf and adding this line:

local uk25k all trust

Now restart postgres:

sudo service postgresql restart

Run the scripts like this:

. pyenv-dpkg-uk25k/bin/activate
cd dpkg-uk25k
python build_index.py
python retrieve.py
python extract.py
python combine.py
python cleanup.py
python validate.py
python report.py reports

Or do the whole lot together:

python build_index.py && python retrieve.py && python extract.py && python combine.py && python cleanup.py && python validate.py && python report.py reports

Before running the scripts again, be sure to clear out old data from the issues table or from all tables like this:

sudo -u postgres dropdb uk25k
sudo -u postgres createdb uk25k

To limit the analysis to one publisher, specify the name as a parameter to build_index:

python build_index.py wales-office

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• PDFs
• Zip files containing a bunch of CSVs (potentially for a number of publishers)