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Re:Show HN: A status dashboard for the NYC power grid by greenyoda on Saturday November 03, 2012 @09:15PM (#4738530)
Interesting data. It looks like not much restoration work has been going on in Queens: 86449 offline to begin, and still 73599 offline. And they tell me my power is going to be out until the 9th...

Does the "coned" gem use some public API that ConEd has, or does it just scrape their web site?

Note: "burough" should be "borough".

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Re:Show HN: A status dashboard for the NYC power grid by citricsquid on Saturday November 03, 2012 @09:23PM (#4738552) 

    http://apps.coned.com/stormcenter_external/stormcenter_externaldata/data/interval_generation_data/metadata.xml
Take a directory from here and use it here:

    http://apps.coned.com//stormcenter_external/stormcenter_externaldata/data/interval_generation_data/2012_11_03_20_45_00/report.js
from: https://github.com/ckundo/sandy/blob/master/lib/sandy/provid...
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Re:Show HN: A status dashboard for the NYC power grid by ckundo on Sunday November 04, 2012 @10:42AM (#4740023)
The gem uses an obscured API endpoint that feeds http://apps.coned.com/stormcenter_external/. ConEd's version of the app makes 2 ajax calls, one to an xml file that gets regenerated every 15 minutes and shows the timestamp of the report json feed. The second call gets the json that gets parsed in the app.

I've done a rudimentary version of jpetterson's at http://stormpox.com (much less pretty). I'm running a rake task that gets called via cron job. The rake task fetches and parses the feed (via the sandy gem) and posts it to a google spreadsheet via the google_drive API. stormpox.com is running as a static site on heroku with an embedded google timeline chart that auto-updates when the spreadsheet changes, and voila, insta-outage-chart (albeit google branded).

The code for the stormpox.com backend is at https://github.com/ckundo/coned_charts.

The sandy gem (previously the coned gem) is on rubygems and here: https://github.com/ckundo/sandy

Again great work jpetterson!

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Re:Show HN: A status dashboard for the NYC power grid by jpettersson on Saturday November 03, 2012 @09:23PM (#4738548)
It's interesting indeed. As of right now it looks like only Manhattan has seen drastic improvements. I hope you get your power back sooner than the 9th!

The coned gem (now https://github.com/ckundo/sandy) is craping data from the official Coned storm central site.

(Thanks, I fixed the typo. As a native Swedish speaker borough is one of those words that make no sense.)

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Re:Show HN: A status dashboard for the NYC power grid by jrockway on Saturday November 03, 2012 @09:23PM (#4738551)
Does the "coned" gem use some public API that ConEd has, or does it just scrape their web site?

https://github.com/ckundo/coned/blob/master/lib/coned.rb#L12

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Re:Show HN: A status dashboard for the NYC power grid by jgv on Monday November 05, 2012 @08:13PM (#4746734)
coned has some endpoints https://twitter.com/ckundo/status/265610079783514112
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