🗑📅 Cheshire East Bin Collection iCalendar (.ics)

Fetches Cheshire East bin collection schedule for a Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) and serves an auto-updating .ics calendar at a public URL.

Disclaimer: This project is pulling data directly from Cheshire East from a non-public API, and may be unstable, or even disappear without notice.

To prevent abuse, there are a few built-in mechanisms to prevent needlessly hammering the upstream data source by default (do bin collections update that frequently?!)

TOC

• Prerequisites
  • Cheshire East UPRN Lookup
• Installation
  • Running with Docker
  • Running standalone
• Configuration Options

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Prerequisites

Cheshire East UPRN Lookup

You can find your Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) in Cheshire East by following these steps:

1. Use the Address Finder on the Cheshire East Public Map Viewer

2. Search for your address, and note your UPRN

Installation

Running with Docker

docker run -d -e UPRN="100012357047" -p 8080:8080 bbrks/cheshire-east-bin-collection-ics

Running standalone

1. Download the latest release binary

2. Run the service with your UPRN:

   ./cheshire-east-bin-collection-ics -uprn="100012357047"
   

3. Your public calendar URL will be logged on startup:

    2019-05-28T23:32:32.614+01:00 [ALL] Serving calendar at http://[::]:8080/collections.ics
    2019-05-28T23:32:34.334+01:00 [INF] req:1 <-- GET /collections.ics from [::1]:58626
    2019-05-28T23:32:34.334+01:00 [INF] req:1 Fetching a fresh copy of data
    2019-05-28T23:32:39.325+01:00 [INF] req:1 --> 200 (OK) in 4.991430799s
    2019-05-28T23:32:42.235+01:00 [INF] req:2 <-- GET /collections.ics from [::1]:58660
    2019-05-28T23:32:42.235+01:00 [DBG] req:2 Skipping update and serving data from cache
    2019-05-28T23:32:42.237+01:00 [INF] req:2 --> 200 (OK) in 1.65305ms
   

Configuration Options

• -uprn="100012357047"
  • Set the UPRN to fetch the collection schedule for
  • This is intentionally not parameterised in the public URL, to prevent accidentally hosting a public service 🙃
• -updateInterval=24h
  • Set how often the service looks for new data
  • Range: 24h to 7d
• -addr="0.0.0.0:1234"
  • Change the listen address/port

Building from source

Dockerfile

There's a multi-stage dockerfile in the repo which will compile and produce a lightweight runnable image:

docker build -t cheshire-east-bin-collection-ics:latest .

Binaries

With Go already installed, you can build a binary with the following command:

go build .

Contributing

Issues, feature requests or improvements welcome!

Licence

This project is licensed under the MIT License.