Ryokou

A scraper to get places data from Japan Hoppers in order to prepare my next vacation 🗾 🇯🇵

Building

Ryokou is written in Haskell.

First, install the Stack build tool:

# Install Stack
curl -sSL https://get.haskellstack.org/ | sh
# Add the path to the stack executable to your PATH
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin

You will also need the development version of libcurl. If you are on Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt install libcurl4-openssl-dev

Then compile the project:

stack build

The executables will be created in .stack-work/install/<platform>/<stack version>/<ghc version>/bin/

Alternatively, you can run them through stack:

stack exec <executable_name> -- <arguments>

Using

Scrap places from Japan Hoppers

This script will scrap Japan Hoppers website for places to visit in a given region, and write the data in JSON format.

stack exec scrap_places -- --region hokkaido --outfile hokkaido_places.json

Export places to a KML map

Using the JSON data, you can generate a KML format map that you can import in Google MyMaps

stack exec export_kml -- --infile hokkaido_places.json --outfile hokkaido_map.kml