Scrapes mug shot and inmate information from the City Jail Custody Report page for Denton, TX and posts some of the information to Twitter via TwitPic.
The City Jail Custody Report page that we are scraping is available here: http://dpdjailview.cityofdenton.com/
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Create a venv using Python 3 e.g.,
virtualenv --no-site-packages --python $(which python3) venv -
Install requirements e.g.,
pip install -r requirements.txt.
Configuration is first required in order to post to TwitPic or Twitter. Without configuration the program will still scrape mug shots and log the images and inmate information to disk.
Create config.yaml by using config-example.yaml as a guide.
If the package is executed e.g., python -m dentonpolice, the script
will loop and continuously check the report page. To run only once,
execute the logic module's main() function.
By default the script retrieves the jail custody report page using a proxy. If you don't already have a proxy setup on your machine, I would suggest downloading and installing the Vidalia Bundle from the Tor Project homepage. Note that if you install the Tor Browser Bundle instead of the Vidalia Bundle bundle then you will need to install the Polipo proxy separately. Download here: https://www.torproject.org/