bugzex / marinetraffic-parser

Marine traffic data-crawler from marinetraffic.com website.

MarineTrafficParser

The data-crawler for collecting data of ships movements from marinetraffic.com website.

Installation

Copy the project files and install the dependencies.

Run commands from your terminal (console):

git clone https://github.com/bugzex/marinetraffic-parser.git

cd marinetraffic-parser

composer install

Import the example database and configure the connection to it.

• Create marines database in your MySQL 5 server.
• Execute db.sql SQL-file from the root directory of this project.
• Default connection settings for this application are: user - root, password - empty, host - localhost.
• If you need change any database connection settings, then see the configuration file: /config/db.php.

How to run the crawler

Run the command from your terminal (console): yii download.

marinetraffic-parser's Issues

Remove the dependency HTTP_Request (PEAR)

The dependent library HTTP_Request (PEAR) is very old and not maintained anymore from 2008.
It is not hard replace this library by any another. A very good alternative library is CURL helper: it is the full documented (for now in Russian) and it is simple for using and for adding to the project via Composer.

Translate remaining comments and captions in code to English

Translate remaining comments and captions in code to English. After that, remove the unnecessary text encoding conversion (see the todo in commands/DownloadController.php).