tap-cqc-org-uk

tap-cqc-org-uk is a Singer tap for the Care Quality Commission's API (docs) which provides information on health and social care in England. Note this tap is still very much a work in progress.

The tap was built with the Meltano Tap SDK.

Installation

Pip

This tap isn't currently published on PyPi. You can install directly with

pipx install git+https://github.com/birdiecare/tap-cqc-org-uk.git

Meltano

Similarly this tap isn't available on the meltano hub yet. You can still install it directly with

meltano add --custom extractor tap-cqc-org-uk

And specifying git+https://github.com/birdiecare/tap-cqc-org-uk.git as the pip URL.

Streams

• CQC_Providers: A list of health and social care provider records taken from https://api.cqc.org.uk/public/v1/providers/ docs.
• CQC_Locations: A list of health and social care locations records taken from https://api.cqc.org.uk/public/v1/locations/ docs.

Configuration

tap-cqc-org-uk --config config_example.json

where config_example.json is

{
  "start_date": "2021-10-27T00:00:00Z",
  "subscription_key": "?? your CQC subscription key ??"
}

• start_date: the date from which changes will be downloaded. Note that if a record was created before this date and not updated after it then it will not be downloaded by the tap.
• subscription_key: Primary key from in CQC developer portal https://api-portal.service.cqc.org.uk/profile.

Usage

You can run tap-cqc-org-uk by itself or in a pipeline using Meltano.

Executing the Tap Directly

tap-cqc-org-uk --version
tap-cqc-org-uk --help
tap-cqc-org-uk --config CONFIG --discover > ./catalog.json