cs-surf-archive

cs-surf-archive.github.io

Generating the website

• Create a credentials.json by:

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to Menu menu > IAM & Admin > Service Accounts. Go to Service Accounts.
2. Select your service account.
3. Click Keys > Add key > Create new key.
4. Select JSON, then click Create.
5. Click Close.

• Place it in the root folder
• Run generate_website.py
• Authenticate in browser to generate token.json (only cs-surf-archive@gmail.com has access)
• Watch the magic happen

WELL HOWS IT WORK

• config.py contains almost all of the important variables
• get_sheet_data.py calls the Google API to get the Rare maps sheet in JSON format
• get_drive_data.py calls the Google API to items from Screenshots and Maps folders in JSON format
• update_json_and_sheet.py combines sheet_data_pre_processing, screenshots_data.json, and maps_data.json
• set_sheet_data.py can update either just a row or a whole sheet. Whole sheet is only in use for now. Row updates = too many API calls.
• This ensures the data in the drive always matches the sheet
• generate_website.py pulls everything together and generates HTML using generate_css_html.py, generate_other_html.py, and generate_overflow_html.py as templates
• gtoken.py is used to generate the credentials for APIs.

todo (maybe)

• Print if map exist in drive but not sheet
• Add entry to sheet if map exist in drive but not sheet