Trailscrape is a project I developed in order to improve my full-stack development skills, using technologies such as react-router.
Trailscrape was created to compile together MTB trail status info from all the many seperate riding area webpages in NZ. Combined with the crowd-sourced trail status info on Trailforks, an algorithm is used to display whether the trail or riding area is closed or not.
The live website is at trailstatus.nz, running on a heroku webapp with the scraper running on a cron-like scheduler every 10 min.
| Database | MongoDB |
| Backend | Express |
| Frontend | React |
| Scraper | Selenium |
If you are interested in creating a park, feel free to create a PR over at trailscrape-backend. Just add another scraper in the same format as the existing scraper.py files.
run npm start to start a development environment. The webapp will run on port :3000 with the api at :9000/api.