Michael Morisy morisy
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/ nhtsa-5-star-api-scrape-csv.bash
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A Bash script, using the jq JSON-parser, to scrape all the NHTSA 5 star vehcile ratings from its API http://www.nhtsa.gov/webapi/Default.aspx?SafetyRatings/API/5
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| ## Note: this is deprecated. jq is still awesome, so now we just get JSON all the way | |
| # jq JSON parser is awesome: | |
| # http://stedolan.github.io/jq/ | |
| # The NHTSA API is pretty clunky, requiring you to get a list of all the years, then all the models in that year, then all the makes per model, and then | |
| # finally, you get the vehicle IDs needed to query the endpoint for one vehicle at a time. | |
| # | |
| # I query for JSON for most of the loop, and in the end, I get the Vehicle data in CSV format |