Smart Backpacker is an App where you can find Visa Requirements information for any country in the world regardless of your nationality, currency exchange, health information and airline's baggage policy among others.
Anybody with a GitHub account can view these metrics in real time on http://stats.smartbackpackerapp.com/
It's the main back-end application exposing the Http Rest API (See documentation). It also contains a token generator.
- Dependencies
- Fixer.io running on localhost:8081 using
docker-compose. See the source code here. Or you can also use the public API, just change the URL in the configuration.
- Fixer.io running on localhost:8081 using
It contains the job to insert new airline's data using plain files as the source (fs2.io is used here).
It contains some utils for cats.effect.IO, fs2.Stream, logging, testing, etc.
It has all the html page parsers and scrapers and all the jobs to insert parsed data into the DB.
sbt project scraper
- Retrieve Visa Requirements from Wikipedia and persist it to the DB:
run visaRequirements
- Retrieve Visa Restrictions Index (Passport Ranking) from Wikipedia and persist it to the DB:
run visaRanking
- Retrieve Health information from CDC and persist it to the DB:
run healthInfo
- Insert initial data (Countries and Visa Categories) into the DB:
run loadCountries
run updateCountries
run loadVisaCategories
Smart Backpacker uses PostgreSQL as the main data storage.
We love Functional Programming. That's why we choose and support the Typelevel stack. We also use a few other dependencies (see build.sbt for more):
| Dependency | Version |
|---|---|
| cats | 1.0.1 |
| cats-effect | 0.8 |
| http4s | 0.18.0 |
| circe | 0.9.1 |
| doobie | 0.5.0 |
| fs2 | 0.10.2 |
| monix | 3.0.0-M3 |
| tsec-jwt-mac | 0.0.1-M9 |
| scala-scraper | 2.0.0 |
| scalatest | 3.0.3 |
| scalacheck | 1.13.4 |
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this project except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
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