Tracking fire data from www.fire.ca.gov/incidents.
This project is inspired by and adapts the work from simonw/ca-fires-history. Instead of using Git scraping, this project stores the data in a SQLite database and uses GitHub artifacts for storage.
graph TB
subgraph Railway
deployment[Datasette]
class deployment Railway;
end
subgraph GitHub
subgraph Actions
scraper[scrape.py]
end
subgraph Artifacts
db[(fires.db)]
class db artifacts;
end
end
subgraph CAL FIRE
api[API]
end
db --> |1: Download| scraper
api --> |2: Fetch Data| scraper
scraper --> |3: Upload| db
scraper --> |4: Publish| deployment
deployment --> |5: View/Access Data| client[User]
To run the script locally and update the database:
python3 scrape.py
To view and explore the data using Datasette:
pip install datasette # optional: install Datasette if you haven't already
datasette data/fires.db --metadata data/metadata.json
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
This software is only used for research purposes, users must abide by the relevant laws and regulations of their location, please do not use it for illegal purposes. The user shall bear all the consequences caused by illegal use.