NOT WORKING AS OF MAY 2017

Introduction

This script crawls Singapore LTA onemotoring website for the open bidding live results. COE = Certificate of Entitlement = A piece of $80,000 paper needed to own a car in Singapore.

Setting up

You can run this scrip on your local machine or on Dotcloud. The project has the necessary setup for Dotcloud instance.

If you are running on your local machine, run mongod (we use MongoDB for database), clone this git project, then:

pip install -r requirements.txt
python coe.py -d

The -d is to run the script as a daemon (background process).

For Dotcloud, simply create an app then dotcloud push.

Model

Round

This model a bidding round eg. March 2013 2nd Round

• name
• status = running | ended
• end_on
• cat_a/b/c/d/e
  • cat
  • qp
  • pqp
  • quota
  • bids_received
  • bids_successful
  • bids_unsuccessful
  • bids_unused

Bid

This model an instance of a running bid at a specific time.

• round_id
• bid_on
• cat
• price
• bids
• quota