Contributing

Clone the repository to your computer and navigate into the directory in your terminal.

The pipenv package manager can install all of the Python tools necessary to run and test our code.

pipenv install --dev

Now install pre-commit to run a battery of automatic quick fixes against your work.

pipenv run pre-commit install

Create a .env file and define your BLN_API_TOKEN.

BLN_API_TOKEN=<yourtoken>

Download the raw source files from biglocalnews.org.

make download

Consolidate the raw files into a single file.

make consolidate

Integrate the consolidated file with our latest polished dataset.

make integrate