Fulcrum Python Tools

Tools for interacting with the fulcrum app API using python. See http://developer.fulcrumapp.com/api/intro/ for more info on the Fulcrum API. Requests takes care of our HTTP chatting, and is automatically installed when using the steps below.

Tools

• change-record-status.ipynb updates the status of every record that is older than 12 days.
• polygon-update.ipynb shows two basic options on how to update the record based on being within a polygon.
• delete-records.py non-conditional batch deletion
• deleteRecords.py - Bulk delete records belonging to a particular changeset.
• archive-complete-issue.py changes the record's status based on the time delta between today and the last update date.
• count-drives-record-status.py- The records status is updated based on the records status of a 2nd app. It was intended to show the condition of parks and garden based on the number of complaints recieved.
• fulcrum-mailer.py- Shows count data of records over a time and according to status. Intended as an informal activity summary for management.
• gbif-validator.py checks the species names in a fulcrum app against the gbif API
• more-2-come

Setup

• Run pip install fulcrum to install the fulcrum python library.
• Copy the py-file into your onto you linux machine and edit your formId, credentials and days.

Usage

• Do crontab -e and add the path of the script and the frequency eg minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week /path/to/my-file.py