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publiccode.yml crawler for the software catalog of Developers Italia

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Description

Developers Italia provides a catalog of Free and Open Source software aimed to Public Administrations.

publiccode-crawler retrieves the publiccode.yml files from the repositories of publishers found in the Developers Italia API.

Setup and deployment processes

publiccode-crawler can either run manually on the target machine or it can be deployed from a Docker container.

Manually configure and build

  1. Rename config.toml.example to config.toml and set the variables

    NOTE: The application also supports environment variables in substitution to config.toml file. Remember: "environment variables get higher priority than the ones in configuration file"

  2. Build the binary with go build

Docker

You can build the Docker image using

docker build .

or use the image published to DockerHub:

docker run -it italia/publiccode-crawler

Commands

publiccode-crawler crawl

Gets the list of publishers from https://api.developers.italia.it/v1/publishers and starts to crawl their repositories.

publiccode-crawler crawl publishers*.yml

Gets the list of publishers in publishers*.yml and starts to crawl their repositories.

publiccode-crawler crawl-software <software> <publisher>

Crawl just the software specified as parameter. It takes the software URL and its publisher id as parameters.

Ex. publiccode-crawler crawl-software https://api.developers.italia.it/v1/software/a2ea59b0-87cd-4419-b93f-00bed8a7b859 edb66b3d-3e36-4b69-aba9-b7c4661b3fdd

Other commands

  • crawler download-publishers downloads organizations and repositories from the onboarding portal repository and saves them to a publishers YAML file.

See also

Authors

Developers Italia is a project by AgID and the Italian Digital Team, which developed the crawler and maintains this repository.