UK Box Office

UK Box Office data is the most detailed and searchable source for box office data in the UK. The backend runs Flask built with Python, the frontend is built with Next.js in Typescript, using chart.js for visualisation, and shadcn/ui for components.

Use the application.

Warning

Due to my time, this application was archived on 5 April 2024, and is no longer deployed or in active development.

Get Started

Codespaces

This codespace will run the services needed for the application; the backend, frontend, and database.

Run backend:

• cd src/backend; flask run
• Change the Port Visibility to Public

Run frontend:

• cd src/frontend; npm start

Run Locally

• With Docker: docker-compose up

Seeding Data

Seeding data requires you to have a archive.csv of box office data in src/backend/data/. You can find the entire dataset to use here. It will take a long time to seed the data, so you should try the --year flag to only seed a single year.

• Make database migrations, inside src/backend flask db upgrade
• Seed films: flask seed-films
• Seed box office: flask seed-box-office
  • Additionally takes --year option for a specific year: --year 2007
• Seed Admissions: flask seed-admissions (requires admissions.csv)

Structure

• src/backend/ - Flask app
• src/backend/ukbo/api - API endpoints
• src/backend/ukbo/services - Services
• src/backend/ukbo/etl - ETL Pipelines / CLI Tasks
• src/frontend/ - Next.js app

Tasks

These run weekly on a Wednesday, if they fail you can run them manually:

• Fetch new box office data flask weekly-etl
• Build a new box office forecast flask forecast

Utilities

• Fetch new box office data from a specific link (works as a backup): flask backup-etl {link to file} "01 January 2007"
• Delete and rollback the last week of data: flask rollback-etl
• Delete and rollback a specific year of data: flask rollback-year --year 2007
• Update admissions manually: flask update-admissions --year 2020 --month 1 --admissions 100