TidalTime

A simple script to:

1. scrape tidal prediction from BBC.co.uk
2. save to local db (sqlite)

A provided locations.jsonl.gz contains a table with available UK ports Alternatively you can goto view-source:https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast-and-sea/tide-tables and search for string

type="application/json" data-data-id="tides"

and save the json string to a json file. The json object looks like this:

{
  "version": "2.1.0",
  "countries": [
    {
      "name": "England",
      "id": null,
      "regions": [
        {
          "name": "East",
          "id": "1",
          "locations": [
            ...
          ]
        }]
        }]}

and then run convert_locations.py to conver it into locations.jsonl.gz

Change config.cfg.template to config.cfg. To use slack notification please replace your slack webhook url in config.cfg

Simply run pip install, and

python collect_tides_info.py --help

Use in conjunction with cronjob to monitor daily. e.g.:

0 4 * * * python /path/to/TidalTime/collect_tides_info.py -c config.cfg