es-acled

Elastic search index for the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) from Asia and Africa in the same Elastic Search index.

Setup

1. check the environment vars at config/enviroment_variables.sample.sh
2. install python requirements with pip install config/requirements.txt
3. create index with python create_index.py
4. download the Africa data since 1997 and index it on ES with python download_and_index.py this will download the data until the current year.

Realtime updates

To keep index up-to-date a cron job will be required with the following commands:

Africa data

API Client for all events from current year

python africa_realtime.py

Asia data

Crawler for published excels in here (http://www.acleddata.com/asia-data/)

python asia_download_and_index.py

Todo

1. Real time updates
2. Unit tests
3. Use logstash to index quicker

Contribute

Please fork this repo.