This is a code repository for air travel trackers, as the number of passengers flying is expected to rebound to pre-coronavirus levels.
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This repository houses code for two graphics — national counts and Washington, D.C. area airport counts — which update automatically when TSA released new data. The web scrapers — dc-airports.py and national-scrape.py — are triggered using GitHub Actions.
TSA releases daily throughput counts every day at 9 a.m., and airport-specific counts every week. dc-airports.py will run every day at 10 a.m. and national-scrape.py will run every Monday at 10 a.m.
Both visualizations — one for national counts and another for Washington, D.C. area airport counts — are created using Chart.js, an open-source JavaScript library. They are fed data from CSVs generated by the two python scripts.