sandy

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_cha

http://apps.coned.com/stormcenter_external/stormcenter_externaldata/data/interval_… Take a directory from here and use it here: http://apps.coned.com//stormcenter_external/stormcenter_externaldata/data/interval… from: https://github.com/ckundo/sandy/blob/master/lib/sandy/provid...

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.)