database of nyc housing data
Project description
a tool for building a database of NYC housing data
This is a Python library and cli tool for installing, updating and managing NYC-DB, a postgres database of Housing Data for NYC.
For more background information on this project, the api, and to download the full database dump see: https://github.com/aepyornis/nyc-db
How to use
Requirements: Postgres and Python3
After installing via pip:
pip3 install nycdbYou’ll be able to use the program nycdb to import a database.
For example to load all of hpd violations:
nycdb --download hpd_violations
nycdb --load hpd_violations -P YOUR_PG_PASSWORD -D YOUR_DATABASETo see all possible datasets:
nycdb --list-datasetsAfter a dataset has been loaded you can verify it with “–verify”
nycdb --verify hpd_violations
nycdb --verify-allBy default the downloaded data files are stores in ‘./data’. Use –root-dir to change the location of the data directory.
To see more options run: nycdb –help
## Adding New Datasets
[Guide Here](ADDING_NEW_DATASETS.md)
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