# major-projects-grabber #

**major_projects_grabber** downloads documents from the NSW DPE Major Projects website.
http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au

## Installation ##

```
git clone http://git.wrl.unsw.edu.au:3000/danh/major-projects-grabber.git
pip install -e major-projects-grabber
```

## Usage ##

### Single modification

The URL of each modification page on the DPE Major Projects website ends with a job id, e.g.:

majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au/index.pl?action=view_job&**job_id=1746**

This job id can be used to download all documents associated with a particular modification:

```
major_projects_grabber -i 1746
```

### List of search results

The DPE portal's search function takes you to a page of search results with a URL like this:

http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au/index.pl?action=search&page_id=&search=&authority_id=425&search_site_type_id=&reference_table=&status_id=&decider=&from_date=&to_date=&x=44&y=10

This URL can be used to download all documents for each modifications in the search results page:

```
major_projects_grabber -u "http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au/index.pl?action=search&authority_id=547"
```

### Output directory

The output directory to save the downloaded documents can be specified with the `-o` option, e.g.:

```
major_projects_grabber -i 1746 -o "DPE documents"
```

If no output directory is specified, the current directory is used.