HealthTools Kenya API to retrieve, structure and return data being used by the health tools. It provides data on the following medical officer registries:

• Doctors: http://medicalboard.co.ke/online-services/retention/
• Foreign doctors: http://medicalboard.co.ke/online-services/foreign-doctors-license-register
• Clinical officers: http://clinicalofficerscouncil.org/online-services/retention/

Specification for the API is shown below. It is an open api and requires no authentication to access.

Clone the repo from github $ git clone [email protected]:RyanSept/HealthTools.KE-api.git

Change directory into package $ cd HealthTools.KE-api

Install the dependencies by running $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Install Memcached

• If on linux follow this link
• On mac use brew install memcached

You can set the required environment variables like so

$ export APP_DEBUG=<False> # True or False
$ export MEMCACHED_URL=<memcache_url:port> # defaults to 127.0.0.1:8000
$ export GA_TRACKING_ID=<google-analytics-tracking-id>
$ export SMS_USER=<sms-provider-user-id>
$ export SMS_PASS=<sms-provider-passcode>
$ export SMS_SHORTCODE=<sms-provider-shortcode>
$ export SMS_SEND_URL=<url-for-sms-provider>
$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=<aws-access-key-id>
$ export AWS_SECRET_KEY=<aws-secret-key>
$ export ES_HOST=<elasticsearch_host_endpoint> (DO NOT SET THIS IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO USE ELASTIC SEARCH LOCALLY ON YOUR MACHINE)
$ export ES_PORT=<elasticsearch_port>
$ export ES_INDEX=<elasticsearch_index>

If you want to use elasticsearch locally on your machine use the following instructions to set it up

For linux and windows users, follow instructions from this link

For mac users run brew install elasticsearch on your terminal

Run memcached on your terminal $ memcached -p <port you set MEMCACHED_URL to run on>(default: 8000)

If you set up elasticsearch locally run it $ elasticsearch

You can now run the server $ python manage.py or gunicorn manage:app for production.

Run memcached on your terminal $ memcached -p <port you set MEMCACHED_URL to run on>(default: 8000)

make sure if you use elasticsearch locally, it's running

Use nosetests to run tests (with stdout) like this: $ nosetests --nocapture