Wealden Council Bindicator

Functionality

• Retrieves bin collection information for a given Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) specifically for the Wealden Council website.
• Identifies the dates for the next bin collection and next recycling collection.
• Formats the dates in a human-readable format (DD/MM/YYYY).
• Provides a message indicating the type of bin for the next collection.

Important Note: This script is currently only designed to work with the Wealden Council website.

Dependencies

• requests: Used for making HTTP requests to the Wealden Council website.
• json: Used for decoding JSON data from the response.
• dotenv: Used for loading environment variables (for storing UPRN securely).

Usage

Prerequisites:

1. Install the required libraries:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Create a .env file in the project directory.

3. Add the line UPRN=YOUR_UPRN to the .env file, replacing YOUR_UPRN with your actual UPRN.

Run the script:

1. Open a terminal or command prompt and navigate to the project directory.
2. Run the script using:

   python main.py