Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: lbsntransform
Version: 0.3.13
Summary: Location based social network (LBSN) data structure format & transfer tool
Home-page: https://gitlab.vgiscience.de/lbsn/lbsntransform
Author: Alexander Dunkel
Author-email: alexander.dunkel@tu-dresden.de
License: GNU GPLv3 or any higher
Description: # LBSNTRANSFORM
        
        A python package that uses the [common location based social network (LBSN) data structure concept](https://gitlab.vgiscience.de/lbsn/concept) (ProtoBuf) to import, transform and export Social Media data such as Twitter and Flickr.
        
        ## Description
        
        This tool enables data import from a Postgres database, JSON, or CSV and export to CSV, [LBSN ProtoBuf](https://gitlab.vgiscience.de/lbsn/concept) or a [LBSN prepared Postgres Database](https://gitlab.vgiscience.de/lbsn/database-setup).
        The tool will map Social Media Endpoints (e.g. Twitter tweets) to a common [LBSN Interchange Structure](https://gitlab.vgiscience.de/lbsn/concept) format in ProtoBuf. The tool can also be imported to other Python projects with `import lbsntransform` for on-the-fly conversion. 
        The goal is to provide a common interface to handle Social Media Data, without custom adjustment to the myriad API Endpoints available. As an example, consider the ProtoBuf spec "Post", which can be a Tweet on Twitter, a Photo shared on Flickr, or a post on Reddit. This tool is based on a 4-Facet conceptual framework for LBSN, introduced in a paper by [Dunkel et al. (2018)](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13658816.2018.1546390). 
        
        ## Quick Start
        
        You can install the newest version with all its dependencies directly from the Git Repository:
        ```shell
        pip install --upgrade git+git://gitlab.vgiscience.de:lbsn/lbsntransform.git
        ```
        
        or install latest release using pip:
        ```shell
        pip install lbsntransform
        ```
        
        .. for non-developers, another option is to simply download the latest build and run with custom args,  
        e.g. with the following command line args
        
        ```shell
        lbsntransform.exe --Origin 3 --LocalInput --LocalFileType '*.json' --transferlimit 1000 --CSVOutput
        ```
        
        .. with the above input args, the the tool will: 
        - read local json from /01_Input/  
        - and store lbsn records as CSV and ProtoBuf in /02_Output/  
        
        For a full list of possible input args and descriptions see [config.py](/lbsntransform/config/config.py).
        
        ## Built With
        
        * [lbsnstructure](https://pypi.org/project/lbsnstructure/) - A common language independend and cross-network social-media datascheme
        * [protobuf](https://github.com/google/protobuf) - Google's data interchange format
        * [psycopg2](https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg2) - Python-PostgreSQL Database Adapter
        * [ppygis3](https://github.com/AlexImmer/ppygis3) - A PPyGIS port for Python
        * [shapely](https://github.com/Toblerity/Shapely) - Geometric objects processing in Python
        * [emoji](https://github.com/carpedm20/emoji/) - Emoji handling in Python
        
        ## Contributing
        
        Field mapping from and to ProtoBuffers from different Social Media sites is provided in classes [field_mapping_xxx.py](/lbsntransform/classes/field_mapping_twitter.py).  
        As an example, mapping of the Twitter json structure is given (see class `FieldMappingTwitter`). This class may be used to extend  
        functionality to cover other networks such as Flickr or Foursquare.  
        
        For development & testing, make a local clone of this repository  
        ```shell
        git clone git@gitlab.vgiscience.de:lbsn/lbsntransform.git
        ```
        ..and create package in develop mode to symlink the folder to your  
        Python's site-packages folder with:  
        ```shell
        python setup.py develop
        ```
        (use `python setup.py develop --uninstall` to uninstall tool in develop mode)
        
        Now you can run tool in your shell with (Origin 3 = Twitter):  
        ```shell
        lbsntransform --Origin 3 --LocalInput --LocalFileType '*.json' --transferlimit 1000 --CSVOutput
        ```
        
        ..or import the package to other python projects with:  
        ```python
        import lbsntransform
        ```
        
        ## Versioning and Changelog, and Download
        
        For the releases available, see the [tags on this repository](/../tags). 
        See [version file](VERSION) for latest available version. The latest windows build that is available for download is [0.1.4](https://cloudstore.zih.tu-dresden.de/index.php/s/MqtlCyqLbxmnnxr/download).
        For all other systems use cx_freeze to build executable:
        ```shell
        python cx_setup.py build
        ```
        
        ## Authors
        
        * **Alexander Dunkel** - Initial work
        
        See also the list of [contributors](/../graphs/master).  
        
        ## License
        
        This project is licensed under the GNU GPLv3 or any higher - see the [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md) file for details.
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