Add make-council-pages.sh script

Readme.md

@@ -13,3 +13,7 @@ The file can be generated using the jq tool and the VEC data:
 '''
 jq '[.[] | {name: .electorateName, electorateId: .electorateId, shortName: .parentElectorateName | match("(.*?)(?:(?: Rural)?(?: City| Shire) Council)").captures[0].string, parentElectorateId: .parentElectorateId, councilName: .parentElectorateName }] | group_by(.parentElectorateId) | map({shortName: .[0].shortName, councilName: .[0].councilName, wardNames: . | map(.name) }) | sort_by(.shortName)' "VEC Data\wards.json" > council_names.json
 '''
+
+## make-council-pages.sh
+
+This is a bash script for creating a page in WordPress for each council. If a page for a council already exists, the page will be updated instead. The source of councils for this script is the "council_names.json" file. The script needs the `jq` and `wp` tools.

make-council-pages.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# This script uses the wp and jq commands, make sure they are installed before running this script.
+
+# The council_names.json file must contain a list of objects (one for each council).
+# Each object must have a "shortName" field and a "wardNames" field.
+# The "shortName" field must be a string.
+# The "wardNames" field must be a list of strings.
+JSON_FILE="council_names.json"
+
+# Controls the flags that are passed to every usage of the wp command.
+WP_FLAGS="--allow-root --path=/var/www/html"
+
+function create_or_update_page() {
+  local council_block="$1"
+  local page_id="$2"
+
+  short_name=$(echo "$council_block" | jq -r '.shortName')
+
+  # TODO: Generate better content! This just outputs the name of each ward.
+  content=$(echo "$council_block" | jq -r '.wardNames | .[]')
+
+  if [[ -n "$page_id" ]]; then
+    echo "Update page $short_name (post $page_id)"
+    wp post update "$page_id" --post_content="$content" $WP_FLAGS
+  else
+    echo "Create page $short_name"
+    wp post create --post_type=page --post_title="$short_name" --post_status=publish --post_content="$content" $WP_FLAGS
+  fi
+}
+
+# Read JSON data
+data=$(cat "$JSON_FILE")
+
+# Get all page IDs in one go because the wp command is pretty slow
+wp_posts=$(wp post list --post_type=page --format=json $WP_FLAGS)
+
+# Iterate over JSON objects
+jq -c '.[] | .' <<< "$data" | while IFS=' ' read -r council_block; do
+  short_name=$(echo "$council_block" | jq -r '.shortName')
+  page_id=$(echo $wp_posts | jq '.[] | select(.post_title == "'"$short_name"'") | .ID' | head -n 1)
+  create_or_update_page "$council_block" "$page_id"
+done