More Doc Please

[mgifford]

I would love some simple explanation of how to run this from the command line. Instructions to install it is good, but instructions to actually run it afterwards is better.

Thanks!

[sprice]

@mgifford Great request! Thanks. I'll take a look at this some time this week and ping you when it's updated.

[mgifford]

Thanks! I'm basically just trying to run through a CSV of postal codes and trying to avoid having to do 300 or so cut/paste routines...

[sprice]

Hi @mgifford. I've taken a further look at this. It's clear that the README needs some improvement.

At the moment this node module isn't used as a command line tool, but rather a module for a node program (which could be built out as a command line tool).

Here's a full example of how it can be used (using a CSV of postal codes).

https://gist.github.com/sprice/62464049507d2690c0ffcaa7ed1333f6

What's your specific use case? Would something like the gist above help at all.

[mgifford]

This was very helpful. The gist you put up was exactly what I was looking for.

I outlined some of the problems I ran into @sprice but not sure if these are things that are fixable (or that you have time to fix).

The gist was definitely helpful. Just more to do still until there's something that's easily usable. Thanks!

[sprice]

It sounds like what would be helpful would be a command line tool for the represent api.

A crude example:

$ npm install -g represent-cli
$ represent --input-file post-codes.csv --input-type postal-code --output-type csv --output-field MP --output-file mp-list.csv

^^ make sure to scroll right to see the whole command 😃

[mgifford]

That would be very handy!

Would be useful also if when it hit an error if it just spit out the line in the CSV that produced the error, and then just move onto the next item in the list.